{"id":94235,"date":"2025-08-25T08:33:08","date_gmt":"2025-08-25T08:33:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/94235\/"},"modified":"2025-08-25T08:33:08","modified_gmt":"2025-08-25T08:33:08","slug":"englishman-finally-gets-a-win-at-east-lake-his-first-of-pga-tour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/94235\/","title":{"rendered":"Englishman finally gets a win at East Lake \u2013 his first of PGA Tour"},"content":{"rendered":"

Among the near misses was the 2018 US Open, when Fleetwood had an eight-foot (2.4-metre) putt for a record round of 62 and a play-off, but it slid by the hole and Brooks Koepka won by a stroke. Then there was the 2023 Canadian Open, when Nick Taylor sank a miracle 22m putt for eagle on the fourth play-off hole.<\/p>\n

His most recent collapse, at the Travelers Championship in June, was excruciating. Having led by two shots with three holes to play, Fleetwood bogeyed on 16 and again on 18, missing a close-range par putt, before US Ryder Cup captain Keegan Bradley stole the trophy with a birdie.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m upset now; I\u2019m angry,\u201d said Fleetwood who, before that, always said just being in contention was a privilege.<\/p>\n

\"Tommy<\/p>\n

Tommy Fleetwood with the Fedex Cup \u2013 his first PGA trophy.Credit: Getty Images<\/p>\n

Two months later, Fleetwood said it would be \u201cfunny\u201d if he broke his duck at the Tour Championship in a glitzy field of the top 30 on the PGA Tour\u2019s money list. But here it is. And if the response to Fleetwood\u2019s overdue breakthrough has proven anything, it is that he has indeed been a \u201cgood person first\u201d.<\/p>\n

Much-loved around the circuit for his generous nature, he is also popular with golf enthusiasts, and is even the subject of an Instagram account titled Tommy Fleetwood\u2019s Hair, accompanied by the tagline: \u201cOfficial Profile for Tommy\u2019s majestic hair (Sinking Putts and Skipping Cuts).\u201d<\/p>\n

Justin Rose, who got the better of Fleetwood at this month\u2019s FedEx St. Jude Championship in Memphis, was greenside to film his friend\u2019s final putt and celebrations on his phone. \u201cTommy F\u2019ing Fleetwood \u2026 Legend,\u201d the veteran tweeted.<\/p>\n

LeBron also tweeted his support as Fleetwood lengthened his lead in the closing holes.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis feels like the day,\u201d James posted.<\/p>\n

Tiger Woods joined in with: \u201cYour journey is a reminder that hard work, resilience, and heart do pay off. No one deserves it more. Congrats @TommyFleetwood1 !\u201d<\/p>\n

And his English Premier League team, Everton FC, wrote: \u201cLifelong Evertonian. PGA Tour title winner\u201d.<\/p>\n

Rory McIlroy, who finished far down the leaderboard tied for 23, left East Lake singing the praises of Fleetwood\u2019s positive attitude and resilience \u2013 qualities Fleetwood acknowledged do not always come easily.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s easy to say you\u2019re resilient, but it\u2019s hard when you have to be,\u201d Fleetwood said. \u201cI feel lucky I\u2019ve had to show that side of myself, and I feel lucky that it\u2019s paid off.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Among the near misses was the 2018 US Open, when Fleetwood had an eight-foot (2.4-metre) putt for a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":94236,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[566],"tags":[64,63,755,85],"class_list":["post-94235","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-golf","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-golf","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94235","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=94235"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94235\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/94236"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94235"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}