{"id":89015,"date":"2025-08-24T06:46:10","date_gmt":"2025-08-24T06:46:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/89015\/"},"modified":"2025-08-24T06:46:10","modified_gmt":"2025-08-24T06:46:10","slug":"brilliant-tommy-fleetwood-surges-into-share-of-lead-at-tour-championship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/89015\/","title":{"rendered":"Brilliant Tommy Fleetwood surges into share of lead at Tour Championship"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Your support helps us to tell the story<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-1uza6dc-0 cKWiEj\">From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it&#8217;s investigating the financials of Elon Musk&#8217;s pro-Trump PAC or producing our latest documentary, &#8216;The A Word&#8217;, which shines a light on the American women fighting for reproductive rights, we know how important it is to parse out the facts from the messaging.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-1uza6dc-0 cKWiEj\">At such a critical moment in US history, we need reporters on the ground. Your donation allows us to keep sending journalists to speak to both sides of the story.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-1uza6dc-0 cKWiEj\">The Independent is trusted by Americans across the entire political spectrum. And unlike many other quality news outlets, we choose not to lock Americans out of our reporting and analysis with paywalls. We believe quality journalism should be available to everyone, paid for by those who can afford it.<\/p>\n<p>Your support makes all the difference.Read more<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/topic\/tommy-fleetwood\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Tommy Fleetwood<\/a> edged closer to a maiden <a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/topic\/pga-tour\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">PGA Tour<\/a> victory at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/topic\/tour-championship\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Tour Championship<\/a> in Atlanta, carding a second-round score of 63 to take a share of the lead into the weekend.<\/p>\n<p>The Englishman picked up eight birdies and dropped just one shot on Friday to improve to 13 under par at East Lake.<\/p>\n<p>He shares a two-stroke lead with American Russell Henley, while Cameron Young carded a 62 to sit third on the leaderboard.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;All I can do is keep learning,&#8221; Fleetwood said as he bids to break his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/sport\/golf\/tommy-fleetwood-pga-tour-record-shaun-micheel-b2775070.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">PGA Tour duck after a series of near misses.<\/a> &#8220;I actually feel like I&#8217;ve played very, very well when I have led the tournaments and been in contention. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt&#8217;s just I might have not got things right right at the end. It&#8217;s not like I&#8217;ve crashed and burned. It&#8217;s just that I&#8217;ve not quite finished things off. The people that win the most are the guys that are in contention the most. That&#8217;s where I want to be. I keep going. I love the buzz when I am in contention, and I&#8217;m just excited for the opportunity again.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Scotland\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/topic\/robert-macintyre\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Robert MacIntyre<\/a> scored a flawless 66 to remain in the hunt on 10 under par.<\/p>\n<p>Fleetwood and MacIntyre came close to winning in the opening two events of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/sport\/golf\/scottie-scheffler-tiger-woods-tiger-bmw-championship-fedex-b2811150.html\" title=\"Scottie Scheffler says Tiger Woods showed him intensity needed to be the best\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">the season-ending FedEx play-offs.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Northern Ireland\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/topic\/rory-mcilroy\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Rory McIlroy<\/a> sits alongside Irishman <a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/topic\/shane-lowry\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Shane Lowry<\/a> on seven under par after scoring a three under 67.<\/p>\n<p>PA<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Your support helps us to tell the story From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":89016,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[5904,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-89015","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-golf","tag-golf","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89015","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=89015"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89015\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/89016"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89015"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89015"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89015"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}