Matt Fitzpatrick interview after round one of DP World Tour Championship in Dubai

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00:00Thanks for joining us. You politely declined a request of mine in round to not speak to me because you'd lost your voice.

00:04So I appreciate you giving this a go. Any other symptoms or just a sore throat?

00:07No, no. People probably thinking it's Covid, but no, I'm fine.

00:12I just real sore throat and just dry cough, just really dry cough.

00:15So, yeah. Round got off to an incredible start, five birdies in a row.

00:19What were you thinking as that was unfolding? I was laughing to be honest,

00:22because I literally said to Billy yesterday, I was like, oh, when we won in 2020, didn't we have four in a row?

00:27And then we did four in a row and we laughed about that.

00:31And then I made a fifth. So, yeah, it was a nice start to the day.

00:35You've played a lot of great rounds of golf here and won twice, obviously, but 65 is your lowest ever score.

00:40Was it particularly satisfying because the course is set up the way it is?

00:43Yeah, definitely. Definitely. I think the biggest thing I'm so pleased about today is just hitting 17 greens.

00:51And the one I missed, I was a complete idiot.

00:53So that was the big thing for me that I was happy about today.

00:57Just kept giving myself chances and put us really well as well.

01:02You're in the running to win the DP World Tour Rankings, but you've got to get past Rory and Ryan.

01:05Did you check their scores when you came in to see how they're doing?

01:08I didn't, no. No, I didn't. I have no idea how they're getting on.

01:11It's I think just the way it's playing.

01:14Seems that this week that it's kind of, you know, really is one shot at a time.

01:18You've got to be on your ball just because of how difficult I think it is with the rough.

01:24You're missing fairways. You can't give yourself any chances.

01:27It's difficult to control the ball coming out of the rough and certainly around the greens is the same deal.

01:32And it's only probably going to get firmer.

01:33Great plan today. I appreciate you talking to us.

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