{"id":70175,"date":"2025-08-09T14:22:06","date_gmt":"2025-08-09T14:22:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/70175\/"},"modified":"2025-08-09T14:22:06","modified_gmt":"2025-08-09T14:22:06","slug":"tommy-fleetwood-has-first-win-in-sight-leads-by-four-at-fedex-st-jude-championship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/70175\/","title":{"rendered":"Tommy Fleetwood Has First Win in Sight, Leads by Four at FedEx St. Jude Championship"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"tagStyle_1mfvp8o-o_O-style_mxvz7o-o_O-style_12bse5w-o_O-style_6s3kpz\" data-mm-id=\"_d111wzvlr\">Last week at the Wyndham Championship, Cam Young finally secured his elusive first PGA Tour win.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"tagStyle_1mfvp8o-o_O-style_mxvz7o-o_O-style_12bse5w-o_O-style_6s3kpz\" data-mm-id=\"_q9civeck9\">Seven days later, will Tommy Fleetwood follow suit?<\/p>\n<p class=\"tagStyle_1mfvp8o-o_O-style_mxvz7o-o_O-style_12bse5w-o_O-style_6s3kpz\" data-mm-id=\"_m8uwj4of2\">The 34-year-old Englishman, who has 42 top 10s on Tour without a win\u2014the most of all time\u2014is leading the FedEx St. Jude Championship after 36 holes by four strokes at 13-under par.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">SI Golf Newsletters. Sports Illustrated\u2019s Free Golf Newsletters. dark. Sign Up Now<\/p>\n<p class=\"tagStyle_1mfvp8o-o_O-style_mxvz7o-o_O-style_12bse5w-o_O-style_6s3kpz\" data-mm-id=\"_7j4rt0nqg\">Four strokes back of Fleetwood are Collin Morikawa, Akshay Bhatia and Justin Rose, who still has three holes to finish with play suspended at 3:31 p.m. local time in Memphis due to inclement weather.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"tagStyle_1mfvp8o-o_O-style_mxvz7o-o_O-style_12bse5w-o_O-style_6s3kpz\" data-mm-id=\"_0p9f44e9n\">\u201cOf course, when you shoot two good scores, it\u2019s easy to say everything has been going well,\u201d Fleetwood <a class=\"tagStyle_1mfvp8o-o_O-style_aoxits\" href=\"https:\/\/asaptext.com\/orgs\/pgatour\/1303\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">said<\/a> after rounds of 63 and 64, \u201cbut I think for the most part, I\u2019ve been very good off the tee, put myself in position to have a go at the course. My iron play has been good and solid, and I\u2019ve rolled the ball well. The greens are really true and I\u2019ve had a nice eye on the greens and good reads and rolling it well.\u201d<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Silky Tommy Fleetwood \ud83e\uddc8<\/p>\n<p>He leads by 5 <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FedExChamp?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">@FedExChamp<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/PiT8XowMgk\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/PiT8XowMgk<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 PGA TOUR (@PGATOUR) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PGATOUR\/status\/1953879355903390135?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">August 8, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"tagStyle_1mfvp8o-o_O-style_mxvz7o-o_O-style_12bse5w-o_O-style_6s3kpz\" data-mm-id=\"_01hrzea4b\">Morikawa, meanwhile, is <a class=\"tagStyle_1mfvp8o-o_O-style_aoxits\" href=\"https:\/\/www.si.com\/golf\/collin-morikawa-hires-fifth-caddie-fedex-st-jude-championship\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">using his fifth caddie of the season<\/a> and has only one top 10 since the Players Championship in March. Yet, the two-time major champion is still confident in his abilities to end his two-year winless drought.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"tagStyle_1mfvp8o-o_O-style_mxvz7o-o_O-style_12bse5w-o_O-style_6s3kpz\" data-mm-id=\"_n9awdry1f\">\u201cIt\u2019s tough, but the self-belief when I tee it up is always there,\u201d said Morikawa, who holed out from 127 yards for eagle on the par-4 9th in Round 2. \u201cIt\u2019s just a hard game. Every day you don\u2019t know what to expect. You don\u2019t know what you\u2019re going to get. But when you\u2019re able to kind of see some shots that you say, \u2018O.K., I know what I can do with this,\u2019 it then bleeds in a good way.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"tagStyle_1mfvp8o-o_O-style_mxvz7o-o_O-style_12bse5w-o_O-style_6s3kpz\" data-mm-id=\"_7unh2pooz\">That\u2019s a feeling Fleetwood knows all too well. Despite establishing himself as one of the world\u2019s top players, there have been many close calls and heartbreaks in 161 Tour starts. <a class=\"tagStyle_1mfvp8o-o_O-style_aoxits\" href=\"https:\/\/www.si.com\/golf\/tommy-fleetwood-still-confident-another-near-miss-pga-tour\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Most recently, the Travelers Championship<\/a> in June. He held the lead through 71 holes, but three-putted for bogey on the final hole with a one-stroke lead as Keegan Bradley made birdie for the victory.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"tagStyle_1mfvp8o-o_O-style_mxvz7o-o_O-style_12bse5w-o_O-style_6s3kpz\" data-mm-id=\"_a1vgbt7xv\">Now, with that defeat in the rearview, Fleetwood\u2019s making his first start since a T16 at the British Open. But with his first victory in sight, he\u2019s not looking too far ahead.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"tagStyle_1mfvp8o-o_O-style_mxvz7o-o_O-style_12bse5w-o_O-style_6s3kpz\" data-mm-id=\"_s1ro5fuye\">\u201cHappy to put myself in with a chance over the weekend,\u201d Fleetwood said. \u201cI think that\u2019s exactly where you want to be and keep testing yourself. Yeah, it hasn&#8217;t happened for me yet out on the PGA Tour, but I would much rather be up there and not quite get it done than not there at all. And who knows, maybe this weekend is the weekend and we\u2019ll see, and we\u2019ll crack on from there.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Last week at the Wyndham Championship, Cam Young finally secured his elusive first PGA Tour win.\u00a0 Seven days&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":70176,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[71],"tags":[427,99],"class_list":["post-70175","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-golf","tag-golf","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70175","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70175"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70175\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/70176"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70175"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70175"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}