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Matt Fitzpatrick produced an inspired short-game performance to top the halfway leaderboard here at the BMW PGA Championship, before taking aim at the long-game revolution instigated by Bryson DeChambeau. “It’s making a bit of a mockery of golf,” he said, while calling on the game’s governing bodies to introduce regulations to ensure the ball cannot travel so far. It is fair to say that the amicable young Englishman did not hold back when asked about DeChambeau’s 360-plus yard drives that have become the central talking point in the sport. At the US Open three weeks’ ago, the American overpowered Winged Foot to cruise to his first major and at this week’s PGA Tour event in Las Vegas - the Shiners Open - he has all but bust the house again with a 59 in the pro-am and a 62 in the first round. On the 381-yard seventh at TPC Summerlin, the world No 6 became the first player ever to drive the green in competition. Incredible to some, depressing to others. “I’m fed up with hearing about it, fed up with reading about it, fed up with everyone talking about it,” Fitzpatrick said. “I'm biased because I'm not quite the longest, and Winged Foot, fair play to him, he won and shot 6-under. But the fairways were tight as hell, and I drove it brilliantly… he's in the rough and miles up and he's just hitting wedges everywhere. “I looked at ShotTracker yesterday, some of the places he hit it, and he's cutting corners… when he's on, there's no point, is there? It doesn't matter if I play my best, he's going to be 50 yards in front of me off the tee, and you know, the only thing I can compete with him is putting. And that's just ridiculous.” DeChambeau has been installed as the favourite for next month’s Masters and it will be intriguing to see if he bash the rest into submission and again and if he does, if the R&A; and US Golf Association finally make good on their suggestion to rollback the golf ball.
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