The Fitzpatrick brothers continued their remarkable run of form with a historic victory on Sunday night.

Former US Open champion Matt had already won twice in the last month on the PGA Tour at the Valspar Championship and RBC Heritage. And younger brother Alex earned his breakthrough win on the DP World Tour in March at the Hero Indian Open.

Then at the Zurich Classic of New Orleans, the Sheffield siblings teamed up to land a fourth win for the Sheffield family in six weeks.

In doing so they became the first brothers to win the team event while Matt became the first player in more than two years to win back-to-back events on the PGA Tour and the first Englishman to win three times in the same American season.

Family matters: Matt Fitzpatrick, left, hugs his mother Susan, right, after he and brother Alex, centre, won the Zurich Classic of New Orleans (AP Photo/Matthew Hinton)

placeholder image — Family matters: Matt Fitzpatrick, left, hugs his mother Susan, right, after he and brother Alex, centre, won the Zurich Classic of New Orleans (AP Photo/Matthew Hinton)

And he clinched it with a stunning 35-yard bunker shot to set up a kick-in birdie for brother Alex.

“A U.S. Open is a major that's special on a course that was special to me,” said Matt, 31, who is now up to No 3 in the world. “Obviously Heritage is something I was going to when I was seven, eight years old. But to win a team event on the PGA Tour with my brother, I don't know if it gets better than that.”

Six months ago Alex, 27, needed a good finish at the Spanish Open to keep his card on the DP World Tour. Now he is a winner on both tours and has a two-year exemption on the PGA Tour.

“Winning a couple of weeks ago on the DP World Tour was the first time that I had an exemption for over a year,” he said. “It's always been a battle to have some form of status somewhere, so it was nice to have some eligibility that I know that I'm going to be okay for a year and a half or two years. It's pretty surreal.”

Alex Fitzpatrick, of England, reacts after sinking a birdie putt and winning the tournament with his brother Matt Fitzpatrick during the final round of the Zurich Classic of New Orleans (AP Photo/Matthew Hinton)

And then the younger Fitzpatrick - who joins Matt, Dan Brown and John Parry as four Yorkshiremen on the PGA Tour - offered a reminder of where they had come from.

“Matt put his arm around me after he just stiffed it to a foot on the last,” said Alex. “It was like all the times when we were at Hallamshire, our home golf club in Sheffield, and you’re on the putting green with a putt to win a PGA Tour event or a major.

"To be stood there with a putt to win a PGA Tour event was an amazing thing.”