Fitzpatrick at home on Major stage

Matthew Fitzpatrick did not get his wish to meet Tiger Woods during the 142nd Open Championship trophy ceremony, not that the Sheffield teenager failed to keep up his end of the bargain.

The 18-year-old from Yorkshire, who finished his A-Levels last month before coming through local qualifying down the road from Muirfield at Gullane, left Scotland last night having collected the famous Silver Medal from the R&A after finishing as top amateur.

Fitzpatrick, who missed qualifying for last year’s Open when he suffered an ankle ligament injury, had been hoping world number one Woods might have been there on the 18th green also to collect the Claret Jug, but not everything goes the way you want and the way the amateur conducted himself around Muirfield this week in his major championship debut, one has the feeling he may well be afforded plenty of other chances to mix with the world’s best golfers.