Tommy Fleetwood was joking on Tuesday during his press conference before the tournament on the Tour Championship 2025 in East Lake Golf Club.
Fleetwood, die nog steeds op zoek is naar zijn eerste PGA Tour -overwinning, gaf dinsdag toe dat hij tot voor kort niet op de hoogte was van de competitieve wijzigingen in het tourkampioenschap van deze week die startstreken elimineerde en iedereen begon met zelfs par. Dat betekent dat degene die deze week het beste meer dan 72 holes speelt in Atlanta, twee trofeeën mee naar huis neemt – de Tour Championship Trophy en The FedEx Cup. The Englishman who leaves blewing both the FedEx St. Jude Championship and the Travelers Championship this year laughed to take home two trophies this week, given the conversation about his inability to win Stateside.
“I think different tournaments have different meanings for you,” said Fleetwood Tuesday. “There are so many incredible tournaments. I’m not going to be picky about which I choose if the first.” This would be a good one.
“I think it would be pretty funny if I won this week and then also get the FedEx Cup. I think that would be funny.”
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Fleetwood has played the best wave of his career, and that went through three rounds at Soggy East Lake. With rounds of 64 and 63, the Englishman opened the weekend tied up with Russell Henley on top of the rankings. On Saturday, Fleetwood built a lead of three shots before a double bogey on the 15th saw him fall behind Patrick Cantlay, who was on the road to shoot his second consecutive six-under 64. Fleetwood reacted with Birdies on 16 and 17 to bind Cantlay and go on Sunday with a chance to get the last smile and a $ 10 million check that would come with his first career PGA Tour Win.
Fleetwood has treated his recent disappointments as a professional. An eternal optimist, Fleetwood has claimed that although he was a shortage in Memphis and Connecticut, those experiences were positives. He would be contrary and lost that he was not at all contrary.
“I work very hard to make sure I make it all positive,” said Fleetwood Tuesday. ‘Of course I will not feed and say you, oh, Memphis. I thought I was doing everything great, or travelers. I did nothing wrong. Of course I am wrong, and it didn’t happen for me. But you just learn from those experiences, and I think it’s exaggerated. From really good things and put myself in great positions.
“Every time I just want to post myself there again. I want to give myself another chance. I will finish it at some point. I will do it well and I will get it well more than once. But there is actually the most difficult part in a certain way.”
So, of course, Fleetwood will be there again on Sunday. He enters the boiler to overcome his recent slip-ups and add a PGA Tour victory to an impressive international golf CV.
The key on Sunday for Fleetwood while he tries to catch up Cantlay while holding a lot of contenders behind him, including Scottie Scheffler and Keegan Bradley, will be to place himself in the right mindset and stay in that positive space, regardless of what the day throws at him.
For Fleetwood, who has again conflict with himself – in position to learn and grow and perhaps finally succeed – that part should not be difficult. For Tommy Fleetwood, optimism is not only a tool to smooth out scars and to dust off itself.
It’s just who he is.
“I covered my children, and I know what I would say to them, and I think it’s all very clear to what you are doing, having a great attitude, having a big state of mind, make sure I tell myself the right things and just connect to those things,” Fleetwood said on Saturday when he was asked how he had approached the last round. “As I just said, there are only 30 players this week. It can be 100, 150, whatever it is, but everyone who is finished wants to be in the latter group on Sunday and is contrary. That is what everyone wants.
“I am lucky to be one of those guys, so I have the time of my life there and I play great and I have to enjoy it while it happens. You never know. Tomorrow may not be my time, maybe not, but I still have a great time to do it.”
Tommy Fleetwood, forever the optimist, has no other path.
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