{"id":93375,"date":"2025-08-26T06:55:07","date_gmt":"2025-08-26T06:55:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/93375\/"},"modified":"2025-08-26T06:55:07","modified_gmt":"2025-08-26T06:55:07","slug":"formbys-pride-for-us-golf-champion-tommy-fleetwood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/93375\/","title":{"rendered":"Formby&#8217;s pride for US golf champion Tommy Fleetwood"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A man who played golf with champion Tommy Fleetwood when he was 10 years old says he knew he &#8220;would be a superstar&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">On Sunday, when Tommy Fleetwood finally <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/golf\/articles\/cx2xdjxwv4no\" class=\"ssrcss-f6h2dj-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">claimed his first US golf title<\/a> at the 164th time of asking, you could be certain some of the wildest celebrations were taking place over the Atlantic in his birthplace of Southport.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">But the cheers were just as loud down the road in the town of Formby, home to Formby Hall Golf Club, where the 34-year-old&#8217;s journey really started to show promise.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Myself and the whole of Formby are really proud of him, we&#8217;re buzzing,&#8221; David Gascombe, who trained alongside Fleetwood as a youngster and is now the golf director of the club, said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man who played golf with champion Tommy Fleetwood when he was 10 years old says he knew&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":93376,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[5904,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-93375","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\/93375","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=93375"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93375\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/93376"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=93375"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=93375"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=93375"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}