{"id":91416,"date":"2025-08-25T10:34:09","date_gmt":"2025-08-25T10:34:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/91416\/"},"modified":"2025-08-25T10:34:09","modified_gmt":"2025-08-25T10:34:09","slug":"tommy-fleetwood-rejected-by-wife-over-23-year-age-gap-as-net-worth-becomes-huge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/91416\/","title":{"rendered":"Tommy Fleetwood rejected by wife over 23-year age gap as net worth becomes huge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Englishman is once again battling to break is duck on the PGA Tour as he heads into the final round of the Tour Championship tied for the lead<\/p>\n<p>14:59, 24 Aug 2025Updated 15:02, 24 Aug 2025<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/0_GettyImages-1711001570.jpg\" loading=\"eager\"  \/>Tommy Fleetwood and wife Clare Fleetwood<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">Tommy Fleetwood is once again eyeing his first PGA Tour win at the Tour Championship in Atlanta.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">The Southport-born star, 34, fired a brilliant three-under-par third round to head into the final 18 holes tied with American Patrick Cantlay. Fleetwood has long been regarded as one of golf\u2019s most consistent players, but a PGA Tour victory has so far eluded him despite runner-up finishes in majors and Ryder Cup success with Europe.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">He also holds an unwanted record \u2014 the most prize money ever earned on the PGA Tour without a single win.<\/p>\n<p>Fleetwood\u2019s staggering career earnings<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">Despite the wait for a title, Fleetwood\u2019s career has been hugely lucrative. He has banked \u00a324m ($32.5m) in prize money, with \u00a34.7m ($6.4m) of that coming in 2024 alone. A tied-third finish at the St Jude Championship earlier this month saw him pocket \u00a3860,000 over that weekend.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">Away from the course, the Englishman is backed by major sponsors including Nike, TaylorMade and Tag Heuer.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">But his wife and agent Clare has revealed that the couple regularly turn down money-making opportunities.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">\u201cYou know we\u2019ve turned down loads, absolutely loads,\u201d she told the <a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=s3atOUzfBps\" target=\"_self\" aria-label=\"\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Performance People<\/a> podcast.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">\u201cI just know his time is more important at home than the bank account. I don\u2019t care about the bank account either, so I\u2019m on his wavelength.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Wife Clare and age-gap admission<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">Fleetwood first met Clare, who worked in sports management, through his brother in 2015.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">Their professional relationship turned personal and the pair married in 2017.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">They now share a son, Frankie, while Clare also has two older children from a previous relationship.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">The couple, who relocated to Dubai in 2022, have spoken openly about their unique working relationship, with Clare continuing to manage her husband\u2019s career.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">&#8220;We&#8217;ve got a 23-year age difference,&#8221; she stated, reflecting on the early stages of their romance.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">&#8220;Of course, I turned him down. I was like, &#8216;Don&#8217;t be stupid.'&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">Fleetwood opened up about how he eventually won Clare over, culminating in a candid four-word confession: &#8220;Well, she just eventually gave in, I think, and thought, &#8216;I&#8217;ll just give him some time. I&#8217;ll give him the time of day and then we&#8217;ll go from there.&#8217; I didn&#8217;t mess up.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">Clare continued, and touched on considering giving up her managerial role after marrying Fleetwood, but acknowledged that juggling both positions offers her comprehensive insight.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">&#8220;I know everything on every side \u2013 so there&#8217;s sponsorship side, the logistics side, the PR side, the accounts side, everything,&#8221; she elaborated.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">&#8220;Maybe sometimes too much, you know, because then that&#8217;s all I think about sometimes, but that&#8217;s just the different dynamic.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">&#8220;I look at one question \u2013 it might have 15 answers for me. Do you know what I mean? It&#8217;s a little bit more complicated for me because I see things, you know, like, are we going to live?<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">&#8220;I don&#8217;t see it as a lifestyle choice necessarily, I&#8217;ll look at it as a business choice as well.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Englishman is once again battling to break is duck on the PGA Tour as he heads into&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":91417,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[5904,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-91416","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\/91416","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=91416"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91416\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/91417"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=91416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=91416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}