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CARNOUSTIA, SCOTLAND – We should call it "Friday & # 39; Fleetwood because the second day of The Open and the Englishman Tommy Fleetwood have history.
All you need to know about the 2018 edition of The Open, including day-by That day, he signed a 65-par cleared by par to 65, which allowed him to climb to the top of the rankings, just playing players from 5 to under 137 as the weekend approaches. the first time in his five Opens.
However, it has been different in the past. Very different.
Indeed, it was on the Old Course in St. Andrews in 2015 that the 24-year-old hit the bottom. The first climb of the English in the European game had been quick and painless, going through the amateur ranks and the Challenge Tour to become a winner of the European Tour.
But Friday in the city auld seriously injured him. "I can literally say that my game is starting to go," he said at the end of last year. "I shot 3 sous in the first round and I loved the place, I always play well there, I thought to myself:" It's a very good chance of good play in a major. "
" Second day, I could not I hit him. I was horrible and from that day it was a downward slope and I can literally imagine it. Everything has collapsed for a year. I could not see myself making a cut. "
It was not only his third appearance at the Open, it was also the third time that he had posted a Friday '76 and, inevitably, the third time that ' He had missed the cup, he registered only one top-10 in the next 12 months and the turnaround only began when he found his former coach Alan Thompson and recruited best friend Ian Finnis for the bag.
Initially, the resurrection was slow, but the He won the HSBC Abu Dhabi Championship and the Open de France last year, challenging every times the form of non-existent course, while beginning to prove itself on the world stage.
The 2017 Championship of the WGC Mexico continued with the fourth place of the United States Open this year, before returning home, to Southport and Royal Birkdale Golf Club
Tommy Fleetwood was to borrow an umbrella from championship open to Carnoustie. David Images from Davies / PA through Getty Images But still the number 76 was to haunt him, only this time he posted it on Thursday. The local hero was facing more frustration on Friday. He needed something spectacular just to make the cut and this time he finally did it: he tore up his personal logbook Open and carded 69 in the worst wet and windy weather. "One of the best rides I've ever played," Fleetwood said when he was asked about it earlier this week at Carnoustie. "It was a great thing, the first time I'd made a cut in an Open."
Twelve months later, he woke up again with a gray sky. The rain was forecast and he needed an umbrella, something that he rarely wears.
"We stole one," he joked. "No, not really, we were given one, a nice open yellow championship."
He needed it as the clouds sank, the drizzle permeated the skin and tested the patience of the partner and former champion of the Open Henrik Stenson, but Fleetwood did not. was not worried.
He needed only 26 putts as he spun a free lap of the course which was completed by a 16-foot birdie putt on the final green. It has garnered acclaim from galleries whose affection for "Our Tommy" is not far from the Southport locals last year.
Then he hesitated to compare it with his record of course 63, completed perhaps inevitably last Friday. Alfred Dunhill Links Championship.
"It was pretty good, but it's not a record of course," he said. "A very good round of golf, a lot of good golf shots."
He turned his Friday fortunes into an Open and the opportunity to compete with the man who closed the US Open at Shinnecock Hills last month which earned him second place behind Brooks Koepka
"Winning [The Open] would be very special," he said. "I can not lie about it: if I could win a tournament in my life, it would be The Open, I've never been this far, but we're only in the middle of the tournament." About the game. Today, I returned to the tournament. "
Three years ago, he was a promising young man who had gone astray. Since then, he said has come a long way "as a golfer and a person". Now, he is a husband, a father and a lock for his debut in the Ryder Cup. "When Tommy came out for the first time on the Tour, much like me, he could only hit the ball from right to left," said the North Irishman after joining Fleetwood near the "[19659006"Nowhecanhitbothwaysanditmakesahugedifferencehe'saveryverysolidplayerhe'swinningalotandhe'sgettingintoit"Themoreyoudothisthemoreexperienceyougainandfromthereitisonlyamatteroftime"
At the beginning of the week, Fleetwood noted that" there have been horror stories on this golf course. "But Carnoustie has also witnessed illustrious stories of comebacks and brave redemption This weekend, the name of Tommy Fleetwood could be added to them.
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