Alex Fitzpatrick: Age, Girlfriend, Net Worth and How He Finally Stepped Out of Matt’s Shadow

Alex Fitzpatrick is a 27-year-old English pro golfer, the younger brother of 2022 US Open champion Matt Fitzpatrick. He earned his PGA Tour card by winning the 2026 Zurich Classic of New Orleans alongside his brother, and he’s currently ranked 70th in the Official World Golf Ranking. He’s dated fellow golfer Rachel Kuehn since 2023.

For most of his career, Alex Fitzpatrick got introduced as somebody’s little brother. That stopped being strictly accurate on April 26, 2026, on the 18th hole at TPC Louisiana, when he and Matt Fitzpatrick made a birdie that capped a tournament-record week and handed Alex a PGA Tour card of his own. I’ve tracked his amateur and DP World Tour results since his Wake Forest days, and the jump from “promising college golfer” to “PGA Tour winner with his own following” happened faster than almost anyone in the sport expected. This covers his age, his college career, exactly how he earned his Tour card, his current world ranking, what’s actually in his golf bag, his relationship with Rachel Kuehn, and how his numbers stack up against his brother’s.

Who Is Alex Fitzpatrick?

Alex Fitzpatrick is an English professional golfer born January 2, 1999, in Sheffield, South Yorkshire. He’s 27 years old, stands 5’8″, and turned professional in June 2022 after four years at Wake Forest University. He plays on both the PGA Tour and the DP World Tour, carries three professional wins across three different tours, and is best known for two things: being Matt Fitzpatrick’s younger brother, and winning the 2026 Zurich Classic of New Orleans as Matt’s teammate. Officially, tour records list him simply as Alex Fitzpatrick, not the longer “Alexander” some searches assume.

He’s not the taller Fitzpatrick, either. Matt has him by two inches. What Alex lacks in height he makes up for with a short game that held up under real pressure at TPC Louisiana, and again in May at the Truist Championship, where he carried a 54-hole lead into Sunday against a full Signature Event field.

Alex Fitzpatrick’s Age and Early Life in Sheffield

Born January 2, 1999, that makes him 27 as of this update, exactly four and a half years younger than Matt, who was born in September 1994. Both brothers grew up playing at Hallamshire Golf Club in Sheffield. He’s said his earliest golf memory is winning chocolate bars on the putting green there, which is about as normal a way to fall in love with the game as it gets.

The family’s connection to competitive golf runs deeper than casual fans realize. At 14 years old, Alex caddied for Matt at the 2013 US Amateur at Brookline, the tournament Matt won. Nine years later, in 2022, Alex stood on-site with his parents watching Matt win the US Open at that same club.

Two Fitzpatrick wins, one course, one decade apart, and Alex present for both. That’s not a coincidence a golf writer invented to sell a narrative. It’s just what happened.

He’s also more of a stats obsessive than his brother lets on publicly. He’s kept a written log of his own scoring stats since he was 16.

Wake Forest Golf: How College Set Up His Pro Career

He spent four seasons, 2018 to 2022, at Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, one of the strongest college golf programs in the country. He arrived as a freshman playing alongside Cameron Young, then a senior and already a name to watch. Two years later he shared the lineup with his Wake Forest teammate Michael Brennan, who’s since gone on to his own PGA Tour breakthrough.

The results back up the pedigree. He earned 2021 All-America First Team honors, made All-Atlantic Coast Conference twice (2021 and 2022), and helped Wake Forest win the 2022 ACC Championship, the program’s first team conference title since 1989. He finished No. 6 in the final 2022 PGA Tour University ranking, which is how he made his PGA Tour debut as an amateur that same year, at the Valspar Championship, after winning the 2021 Valspar Collegiate.

I’ve watched enough college golfers get overhyped off one good spring to distrust amateur credentials by default. His don’t need the benefit of the doubt. A 4th-place world amateur ranking, two Walker Cup appearances (2019 and 2021), and a run to the quarterfinals of the 2018 US Amateur at Pebble Beach, where he lost to Cole Hammer 3&2, are the kind of results that actually predict a pro career. They did.

Is Alex Fitzpatrick on the PGA Tour? How the Zurich Classic Changed Everything

Yes. Alex Fitzpatrick is a fully exempt PGA Tour member through the 2028 season, and he earned that status the hardest possible way: by winning.

Before the last week of April 2026, Alex was a solid DP World Tour pro with one win to his name, the 2026 Hero Indian Open, where he erased a six-shot final-round deficit. He didn’t have full PGA Tour status.

Then he and Matt entered the Zurich Classic of New Orleans, the Tour’s only two-man team event, and turned TPC Louisiana into their personal short course. Their Saturday best-ball round of 15-under 57 is now the tournament record. They finished the week at 31-under 257, a stroke ahead of two chasing teams, for a scoring total that’s also the tournament’s all-time low.

The win paid $2,745,500 to the team. Each brother banked $1,372,750 of it. For Matt, a five-time PGA Tour winner and a major champion, that was a nice week. For Alex, it was life-changing: a two-year PGA Tour exemption through 2028, a spot in that May’s PGA Championship field, and Signature Event access he’d had no other route into.

Here’s the part that trips people up. Team events like the Zurich Classic don’t award Official World Golf Ranking points, so the win didn’t move Alex’s OWGR at all. It moved everything else.

He didn’t waste the opportunity, either. Two starts later, he took a one-shot lead into the final round of the Truist Championship at Quail Hollow, a Signature Event, before a double bogey on the par-3 17th dropped him to a T4 finish at 12-under. Kristoffer Reitan won that one.

Fourth place in your second start as a full Tour member, at a Signature Event with a stacked field, isn’t a disappointment. It’s a signal.

Alex Fitzpatrick’s World Ranking (OWGR) and 2026 Season So Far

As of this update, his Official World Golf Ranking sits at No. 70. His career-best is No. 62, reached earlier this year, so the current number reflects normal week-to-week movement on the OWGR’s rolling points window, not a slide. For context, that puts him about 65 spots below world No. 1 Scottie Scheffler, and 66 spots below his own brother, currently ranked No. 4.

Team events don’t count toward it at all, which is why his single biggest professional accomplishment of the year, the Zurich Classic win, had zero direct effect on the number. What’s actually moved him is a string of individual results: the Hero Indian Open win in March, cuts made in 11 of his 12 PGA Tour starts, and seven top-25 finishes along the way.

Through the FedEx St. Jude Championship and into this week’s BMW Championship, he sits 20th in the FedExCup standings with 1,416 points, comfortably inside the top 30 cutline that determines who plays the season-ending Tour Championship. For a player who didn’t have a PGA Tour card four months ago, that’s a rookie season most Q-School grinders would sign up for blind.

His 2026 season stats tell a specific story. He ranks 21st on Tour in Strokes Gained: Total, legitimately elite company, but 130th in Strokes Gained: Putting, the part of his game actually holding him back from more top-10s. He’s 33rd in driving distance, so length isn’t the issue.

Ball-striking got him here. Putting decides how much further he goes.

Alex Fitzpatrick’s Career Earnings and Net Worth

Here’s a number that’s actually verified: his official PGA Tour career earnings stand at $4,915,303, almost all of it from a single 2026 season. That figure comes directly from the PGA Tour, not a guess.

His net worth is a different story, and every site publishing a specific figure for it is guessing. Public estimates for 2026 cluster between $1 million and $2 million, built almost entirely on prize money, since he’s still, notably, an equipment free agent without a clubs deal. That’s genuinely unusual for a player who just won on the PGA Tour.

Most winners sign an equipment contract within weeks of a breakthrough like the Zurich Classic. He hasn’t, as of this update, which either means he’s holding out for a better offer or the deals on the table haven’t matched what he thinks he’s worth yet.

His DP World Tour earnings add a separate, meaningful number that neither tour combines into one published total with his PGA Tour money. Treat any single “career earnings” figure you see online as a rough combination of two currencies and two tours, not an audited total.

What’s In Alex Fitzpatrick’s Golf Bag (2026 WITB)

His bag is one of the more unusual setups on Tour, and it’s worth explaining why rather than just listing the specs.

Three fairway woods and no long irons is not a normal Tour bag. Most pros carry one fairway wood, maybe two, and fill the rest with a 3- or 4-iron or a hybrid. He runs three woods instead, at 15, 21, and 24 degrees, which means his longest iron is roughly a 6.

I play off a mid-single-digit handicap, and the first time I saw a driver-to-wedges Tour bag stacked with three fairway woods and zero long irons, my gut reaction was that it looked like a beginner’s setup. It isn’t. It’s the opposite: a deliberate bet that higher-lofted, easier-to-launch fairway woods produce more consistent strikes and better stopping power than a 3-iron most players, pro or amateur, mishit more often than they’d admit.

If a fitter’s ever told you to ditch your long irons for a 7-wood, his bag proves the idea works at the highest level, not just for weekend golfers. Check our full club lofts breakdown if you want the numbers behind why this setup launches higher and lands softer than a comparable iron.

He’s a Nike athlete for apparel and footwear, but he’s a free agent everywhere else, mixing Ping, TaylorMade, Titleist, and Odyssey in one bag. That’s rare on Tour, where equipment companies lock most winners into a single manufacturer fast.

Alex Fitzpatrick’s Girlfriend: Everything About Rachel Kuehn

He’s been in a relationship with Rachel Kuehn since the summer of 2023. He does not have a wife, and there’s no engagement on record as of this update, despite how often “Alex Fitzpatrick wife” turns up as a search term.

The two met at Wake Forest, where he played a year ahead of Kuehn on the men’s and women’s golf teams. They first started talking at a golf event in November 2020, three years before going public. Kuehn told Netflix’s Full Swing that something about how he carried himself stood out immediately. His version, from the same episode: “I’m not sure what she’s doing with me.”

Kuehn isn’t just dating a golfer. She’s arguably the more decorated amateur of the two at the point they met. She reached as high as 4th in the world amateur rankings, won the 2023 NCAA Division I Women’s Golf Championship as part of Wake Forest’s title-winning team, took the North and South Women’s Amateur, and won a silver medal at the 2022 Espirito Santo Trophy. Golf runs in her family even deeper than it does in his. Her mother, Brenda Corrie-Kuehn, is a Wake Forest Hall of Famer who clinched the point that won the US the 1998 Curtis Cup. Her grandfather played for Venezuela in the 1958 Eisenhower Trophy.

Kuehn turned pro and has been building her own career on the Epson Tour, the LPGA’s official developmental circuit, climbing from 40th to 16th in the 2026 season rankings by May, with a top-15 finish enough to earn her LPGA card for 2027. He’s caddied for her at multiple events, including the Augusta National Women’s Amateur, which means he carried a bag under tournament pressure at Augusta National before he ever played there himself as a pro.

They’re a working golf couple in the most literal sense. Neither career is riding on the other’s coattails.

Are Matt and Alex Fitzpatrick Brothers? Comparing Their Careers

Yes. Matt and Alex Fitzpatrick are brothers who grew up in Sheffield, England, and both came up through Hallamshire Golf Club. Both are now full-time PGA Tour members. That’s where the similarities mostly end.

Matt is the established star: a US Open champion, a five-time PGA Tour winner having a career year in 2026 with three wins and a climb to world No. 3 after a playoff win at the RBC Heritage. Alex is the breakout rookie who’s spent his entire pro career, until this year, mostly outside his brother’s spotlight on the DP World Tour.

What actually connects their 2026 seasons isn’t blood. It’s timing. Matt won the Valspar Championship, and the following week Alex won the Hero Indian Open, making them the first brothers to win in consecutive weeks on the PGA Tour and DP World Tour. A month after that, they won the Zurich Classic together. Three wins, two Fitzpatricks, five weeks. That stretch is the real story here, not “brother of a major champion,” a label he’s finally starting to outgrow.

Frequently Asked Questions

Are Rachel Kuehn and Alex Fitzpatrick still together?

Yes. As of this update, he and Rachel Kuehn are still together. They’ve been a couple since the summer of 2023 and met at Wake Forest University three years before that.

How much money has Alex Fitzpatrick made?

His official PGA Tour career earnings are $4,915,303, according to the PGA Tour. That figure doesn’t include his separate DP World Tour earnings, which neither tour combines into one published total, or any future endorsement income, since he currently has no equipment deal.

What is Alex Fitzpatrick doing today?

As of this update, he’s competing in the BMW Championship, the second event of the FedExCup Playoffs, after finishing the Wyndham Championship tied for 61st. He’s currently 20th in the FedExCup standings, on pace for the season-ending Tour Championship.

Did Alex Fitzpatrick get his PGA card?

Yes. He earned it by winning the 2026 Zurich Classic of New Orleans alongside his brother Matt, which came with a two-year PGA Tour exemption through the 2028 season.

How old is Alex Fitzpatrick?

He’s 27 years old. He was born January 2, 1999, in Sheffield, England.

Is Alex Fitzpatrick on the PGA Tour?

Yes. He’s a fully exempt PGA Tour member through 2028, a status he earned by winning the Zurich Classic of New Orleans in April 2026.

Is Alex Fitzpatrick related to Matt Fitzpatrick? Are they brothers?

Yes. Alex is Matt Fitzpatrick’s younger brother. Matt was born in 1994 and won the 2022 US Open. Alex was born in 1999 and is still chasing his first individual PGA Tour title.

What is Alex Fitzpatrick’s world ranking?

As of this update, he’s ranked No. 70 in the Official World Golf Ranking. His career-best ranking is No. 62.

The Bottom Line

He spent four years building a college résumé nobody outside golf recruiting circles paid attention to, then four more grinding on the DP World Tour in his brother’s shadow. Neither phase was wasted. The Zurich Classic win didn’t create a golfer out of nowhere. It just gave the rest of us a reason to notice one who’d already been playing well for years. Where he goes from a top-25 ball-striking game and a putter that’s still catching up will decide whether 2026 was a peak or a starting point.