It by no means crossed my thoughts that Tommy Fleetwood wouldn’t finally win on the PGA Tour – by no means in 1,000,000 years. If it wasn’t this week, it actually would have been someday sooner or later.
He wasn’t going to be a type of guys who got here shut too many instances with out success. It was going to occur eventually, however I can not consider a greater time to win than this one! You win two trophies in a single right here and get a primary prize with quite a lot of zeros in it.
Fleetwood has performed extraordinarily nicely all yr lengthy and had many nice finishes, however to lastly get the {hardware} was the factor that he was in search of. He has gone via all this earlier than and that is clearly the step up.
He performed with ardour, he performed with coronary heart and – on the finish of the day – he bought what he deserved. He was not excellent however was sturdy sufficient and hard sufficient to outlast this discipline and win his first championship in type.
I really feel a lot for him due to what he did on the market. It was not simple – it was hard-earned. Every time he form of bought out of place, it appeared prefer it did not hassle him. He bought it proper again into place and he took care of enterprise.
He did not get off to an incredible begin within the closing days of the Vacationers Championship or the FedEx St Jude Championships, which he misplaced. The beginning right here at East Lake was large because it put him relaxed immediately.
Fleetwood’s journey to FedExCup glory
Fleetwood broke the mould with the birdie on the second, when everybody else had made par, which settled him down. He bought off to an excellent begin and even the bogey on the fifth was not an enormous deal, as a result of he had the sixth and seventh proper behind it.
Fleetwood was enjoying within the closing group alongside Patrick Cantlay, who ended tied-second
He did not have a lot room for error on the eighth, however he bought it spot on together with his distance management clever and put himself in an incredible place to save lots of par. I did not sense any panic or any doubt from Fleetwood.
Fleetwood was strolling tall – he did not appear to be bothered by the unhealthy pictures and wasn’t overexuberant in regards to the good pictures. He was extra exuberant in regards to the par saves, which he then needed to make on a few different events.
On the twelfth he put it six ft beneath the outlet and walked that one in, then took benefit of Cantley’s misstep on the subsequent to make one other birdie and pull additional forward.
I do not suppose there’s something that he would have confronted that might have been then that scary or that intimidating than the tee shot on the fifteenth. It is not a assure as soon as he finds land that he is nonetheless going to win it, however that went a massively lengthy option to him.
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Watch the second Tommy Fleetwood accomplished Tour Championship victory and claimed the FedExCup
He leaned on his putter all week lengthy, which I believe he has been doing with extra confidence all through the FedExCup Playoffs. The entire physique of labor was about as strong as you may get.
‘He is simply getting began’ – extra to return from Fleetwood?
I am so proud to know him and I am so proud to name him a buddy. I instructed him one thing again in 2012 once I was enjoying on the DP World Tour and once I first met him. I am going to preserve that between me and him, however I meant it and I nonetheless imagine it.
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Tommy Fleetwood gave his response to Sky Sports activities after lastly ending his lengthy wait to win a PGA Tour title
Now he has this victory, I believe it may be a landslide for extra of them. These are going to return quick and livid. He will be within the rivalry extra, he will be proper within the combine for the whole lot and he is simply getting began.
I nonetheless cannot consider a single golf course or circumstances that he cannot deal with. He can adapt to any golf course at any scenario – far simpler than some gamers – and his sport is not one-dimensional.
Augusta is true up his alley, nearly as good a ball striker he’s, nearly as good a putter as he is became and with the brief sport he provides. The PGA Championship additionally fits him, irrespective of the place it is performed on.
He has mentioned greater than as soon as that The Open is the one he needs to win greater than the rest. Then the US Open subsequent yr is at Shinnecock, the place he shot 63 within the closing around the final time it was there.
I believe he has all the time believed that he can win a bunch, he simply needed to get previous the primary one. The primary one is all the time powerful, the longer it goes, however going ahead – when he places himself in that place – he can lean on what he did right here.
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