HE’D agree, it was a very long time coming.
The resume learn seven DP victories (he scored an eighth just lately) 4 Ryder Cup appearances, thrice on the successful European group whereas individually boasting a formidable 70 per cent win price. He’s at the moment fourth and has additionally been a relentless within the high 10 over the previous three-four years on the Official World Golf Rankings.
Nevertheless, for all his worldwide successes and the trophies collected all over the world, a victory on the PGA TOUR within the US would frustratingly elude Tommy Fleetwood.
Becoming a member of the PGA TOUR on a full-time foundation in 2018, Fleetwood had been six occasions a runner up, on six events he would end third, with 31 high fives and 45 high 10’s to his credit score.
He had been ever so shut in among the greatest occasions, a final day 63 at Shinnecock Hills virtually stealing the US Open from Brooks Koepka when second in 2018, after being within the combine in putting fourth, once more behind Koepka, the yr prior.
Then after a pair extra near-misses, it lastly occurred, the 34-year-old from Southport within the UK, now a resident in Dubai, scoring a primary victory on US soil.
And he did it in an occasion providing a US$10million first prize, in opposition to a area of the 30 main gamers within the US in 2025 on the FedEx Cup Tour Championship.
Fleetwood began Sunday’s remaining spherical at Eastlake with a three-shot lead, he was nonetheless three forward when he made the flip, however that benefit was only a single stroke after a hooked tee shot on the tenth gap led to a bogey, whereas his closest pursuer in Patrick Cantlay was making birdie.
The proverbial squirrels had been probably having a area day inside his head and below his Nike cap, however Fleetwood was in a position to give himself some respiration room as soon as againwith birdies on 12 and 13 in regaining his three-shot buffer.
Whereas not fairly stress free, from there the favored Englishman was in a position to push the doubts apart and discover his solution to the clubhouse, and to the trophy presentation, three strokes away from the chasing pack.
“It’s important to take care of these little demons which are behind your thoughts, and doubt creeps in,” Fleetwood stated. “You bear in mind what you bought fallacious, don’t wish to get it fallacious once more, and you need to pressure your self to think about the positives.”
Certainly it was a primary win that was coming. Fleetwood seemed prone to break his duck on the Travellers Championship in June, till Keegan Bradley wrested the title away by making a 6-foot birdie putt on 18, earlier than Fleetwood missed a barely longer par try to tie.
Two weeks earlier than his breakthrough win in Atlanta, he led by two strokes with three holes remaining within the FedEx St. Jude Championship, nonetheless after failing to birdie the par-five sixteenth or make a two-metre par putt on the seventeenth, Fleetwood discovered himself a stroke out of the playoff gained by Justin Rose.
“Like several regular individual, I get dissatisfied, I get unhappy, I get offended,” he stated early within the week of the Tour Championship.
“However on the similar time, … I feel I’ve a superb consciousness that there’s no level making issues a destructive expertise. You simply need to be taught from all the things and attempt to do the most effective you’ll be able to.
“I’ve needed to be resilient when it comes to placing myself again up there, getting myself again in that place, regardless of what number of occasions it doesn’t go my method, regardless of what number of doubts may creep in,” Fleetwood stated.
European Ryder Cup counterparts Rose and Shane Lowry had been ready for Fleetwood behind the 18th inexperienced at Eastlake, as was his stepson Oscar Craig, who cried on the shoulder of the primary time PGA Tour winner as they embraced on the inexperienced.
“He retains getting knocked down and retains getting again up and coming again stronger,” stated Lowry.
“I’ve been a PGA TOUR winner for a very long time,” Fleetwood stated after the FedEx Cup success. “It’s simply all the time been in my thoughts.”
Now it’s additionally attributable to his identify being engraved on a really vital trophy, gained in a spot he had beforehand discovered exhausting to crack. What’s subsequent now for Fleetwood in 2026 and past, for a person who lastly discovered the ending line on the PGA TOUR together with his nostril in entrance.
