Matt Fitzpatrick won the Valspar Championship in style after making a birdie on his final hole on Sunday.

However, the final round of the Valspar did not pass without incident for Fitzpatrick.

The 31-year-old Englishman has been in superb form over the past few weeks, backing up his runner-up finish at The Players Championship with his impressive win at Innisbrook last week.

Fitzpatrick never actually led at the Valspar Championship until the later stages of his opening nine at the Copperhead Course on Sunday.

It’s no surprise that Fitzpatrick worked hard to improve his iron play ahead of The Valspar Championship.

He was ranked second in strokes gained approach at Innisbrook throughout the week.

Now the big challenge for him will be to get his hands on another major championship sooner rather than later.

He certainly has the mentality needed to do just that, and he proved that in spades at the Valspar last week.

Frustrated Matt Fitzpatrick makes statement after Valspar Championship win

Fitzpatrick was in the zone on Sunday in Palm Harbor.

He carded a bogey-free round of 68 and that takes some doing around the extremely challenging Copperhead Course.

However, the 2022 U.S. Open champion’s patience was tested to the absolute limit throughout the final round.

Fitzpatrick made a complaint to a rules official at the Valspar about his playing partner, Adrien Dumont de Chassart, midway through his final round on Sunday.

At one point, the Belgian took three minutes to hit a shot on the 11th hole.

Dumont de Chassart was given a formal warning by a PGA Tour rules official.

“Yeah, that that was really frustrating,“ Fitzpatrick admitted.

“It was slow today. I felt like there was a lot of stop-start.

“Yeah, just, you know, when you’re not ready to play a golf shot, it gets frustrating after a while and particularly when you’re playing well yourself or you’re in contention or whatever it is.

“It definitely knocks you out of your rhythm because, you know, you hit, you walk to it, you kind of think about it, you hit again and you go, you know.

“Then you’re round a stretch there that can get a little bit quirky with different shots and stuff. You have to be on it.

“And it definitely knocked me out of my rhythm.

“I felt like for the next two, three holes, I was kind of chasing my tail because I was trying to speed up and trying to keep us in position, or get back in position.

“And at the same time, you know, you’re obviously trying to win a golf tournament, so it’s like, at that point in the week, it’s kind of a hard balance, yeah.“

Now the PGA Tour have to take matters into their own hands.

Formal warnings are quite simply not good enough anymore.

PGA Tour must take drastic action after Matt Fitzpatrick’s complaint

The PGA Tour have a big problem with slow play and it is something that has been plaguing the professional game for quite some time now.

The reason why it continues to happen is because the punishments handed out are simply not strict enough.

So what if players get a warning? They will just slightly increase their speed after that. However, the real problem is that almost every single group on the PGA Tour is too slow nowadays.

Remember the six hour-plus rounds at Oakmont in the U.S. Open last year?

The PGA Tour, and, in fact, every single governing body in the game, needs to come up with a new strategy.

There needs to be time limits set for every single shot because then, the real culprits will be held accountable.

Brooks Koepka has suggested in the past that slow players need to be penalized shots.

While some will say that’s too harsh, it would certainly eradicate slow play overnight.

Young children watching the game on TV will be thinking that five or six hour rounds are the norm.

Many of the best players in the world take far too long over their shots these days, and as Matt Fitzpatrick rightly said, that’s totally unfair on those who play quickly.

The PGA Tour needs to nip this problem in the bud now before it gets worse.