Tommy Fleetwood is from Southport, England
Thomas Paul Fleetwood was born on 19th January 1991 in Southport, Merseyside.
When he was a child, he and his father, Pete, used to sneak on to Royal Birkdale. Would later make his first cut in an Open Championship at Royal Birkdale in 2017
As an amateur he won the 2009 Scottish Amateur Stroke Play and the 2010 English Amateur Championship. He also had runner up finishes in the 2008 Amateur Championship, the 2010 New South Wales Amateur and the 2010 Spanish Amateur and the 2010 European Amateur.
In 2011, he became the youngest player to win the European Challenge Tour Rankings at the age of 20 years.
In August 2013, Fleetwood won his first title on the European Tour at the Johnnie Walker Championship at Gleneagles. He won in a three-man sudden death playoff, after a birdie on the first extra hole to see off Stephen Gallacher and Ricardo González.
He won his second title in the Abu Dhabi HSBC Championship in 2017, finishing a shot clear of Dustin Johnson and Pablo Larrazábal.
Tommy went on to finish 2017 as Europe’s Number One player, winning the European Tour’s Race to Dubai crown ahead of fellow Englishman Justin Rose, receiving the prestigious Seve Ballesteros Award as Player’s Player of the Year.
At the 2024 Summer Olympics, he won a silver medal after finishing the tournament 18 under par.
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