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Mark shlbach
Atlanta – Tommy FleetwoodThe long bad dream is over.
After so much with Mrs. Mrs. English golfer finally won his first PGA tour on Sunday after posting 2-under 68 under 18 in the tour championship, three strokes ahead Russell Henley And Patrick Cantley At the East Lake Golf Club.
This 164th career of Fleetwood was on the PGA tour, and his long wait, while sometimes painful and disappointing, was worth it. He collected $ 10 million to win Fedex and win.
“It is easy for anyone to say that they are flexible, that they bounce back, that they fight,” Fleetwood said. “This is different when you really have to prove it.”
Although 34 -year -old Fleetwood won seven times on DP World Tour and thrice worldwide, he had to pick up a trophy at a PGA tour event till now – until Sunday.
“It shows how flexible he is towards the game,” he is, ” Rory McLeroy Said that after posting a Sam-Sam-70 to tie below 6 on 23rd. “If it happens today, it will be amazing. I think we will all love him.”
It is not that Fleetwood was not earlier. According to ESPN Research, his 30 top-five finishes were the highest without a win on the PGA tour in the last 100 years. Career’s income was the highest for his $ 33.4 million for a golfer that did not win on a tour.
“I really didn’t feel that it would not happen,” said Fleetwood. “But there is always doubt.”
In the last two months, two close calls from Fleetwood received. At the Travelers Championships at Cromwell in Connecticut on 22 June, he lost three more and three-footing under the leadership of a shot going to the 72nd Hole. Kegan bradley One by one.
“I am upset now,” Fleetwood said at that time. “I am angry. … It hurts.”
Two weeks ago at the Fedex St. Jude Championship at Memphis, Fleetwood took a two-shot lead with three holes to play in the first phase of the playoffs. He went under the stretch 1. Justin Rose Beat JJ Spon In a playoffs, while Fleetwood was tied to the third.
“Winning on PGA Tour was a step that I really wanted to take,” Fleetwood said. “You don’t want anything, but I wanted it. I wanted to do it. It fulfills the story of Mrs. Mrs.”.
It was not almost dramatic Sunday. Fleetwood made a bogie to cut a bogie on a stroke on a stroke on the 10th hole, he gave the Burdies a card to return three to Nose 12 and 13. Fleetwood had a three-stroke lead over the 18th hole.
Par-4 on 16th, the bogie of the cantley ended its return opportunities.
Fleetwood became the first golfer to win his first win at the Tour Championships at East Lake. Chad Campbell The 2003 Tour Championship was won at the Champions Golf Club in Houston.
World number 1 golfer Scotty cheflerThose who were trying to become the first golfer to win the Fedex Cup in the back-to-back season, they had trouble since the beginning.
On the initial hole, the chefler badly pulled his tea shot down to the left. His ball bounced once and shot under a fence and out of the border. He made a bogie to fall down 11 under five shots behind Fleetwood.
Par-4 After another bogie on fifth, the chefler picked up four shovedies to return to the mixture. But the disaster occurred when he hit his tea shot in water on 31st. A double-boy 5 dropped her out of the hunting.
Scheffler posted 2 -under 68 and tied to the fourth under 14, his 14th consecutive top -10 finish, which were tied Jack nicloss (1977) For the longest line in the last 50 years.
Corey cornersWho gave the card of 8-under 62 on Sunday, and Cameron Young (4) Bound for the fourth.
“I fought throughout the week to give myself a chance,” the sheffer said. “I was not as fast as I expected to have a good first round, but outside it was not really the best game of the first few days. Still gave myself a shot. Just a few better swings were needed.”
US Rider Cup captain Bradley started three strokes of the final round behind Fleetwood and Cantley. But he could not go much. Bradley was also a victim of tricky 15th hole when he pushed his tea shot to the right, causing the double-boy to 5.
Bradley will announce his six Rider Cup captain’s pics on Wednesday. He called himself the possibility of choosing “the biggest decision of my life”.
Bradley said, “No matter what I decide here, I could easily go in another way, whatever it was.” “The only thing that I careful to is on Sunday of the Rider Cup, that we win the Rider Cup. Then I will know that I have taken the right decision.
“Till then, I won’t know. It is going to be very wild. Whatever decision we take, we want to be with it. I love my team people. They are all great playing. It’s really something else. It’s great.”
Rider Cup is not a play captain Arnold Palmer In 1963, the Americans led Raut of 23-9 at the East Lake. Bradley is ranked 13th in the official world golf rankings, and is a higher win on a chefler tour in the last one year.
“No Kagan wants to win more rider cups than Bradley,” Maveral MackeliWhich is ranked 10th in the issue and is ranked 23rd at 6 under this week. “I know that he is going to make this decision that is best for the team. At the end of the day, it comes down who plays the best golf.”
