The acquisition campaign of the Arab Super League does not stop. Even the Australian Cameron Smith, world number 2, after winning The Open would be about to move to LIV Golf and therefore abandon the PGA Tour. Not only that: among the suspects to leave the maximum American men’s circuit and the DP World Tour English Tommy Fleetwood would also be there to choose the new economic power of the green.
Cameron Smith and Tommy Fleetwood
Just Smith, after having raised the Claret Jug in Scotland to the sky, skipped over his possible arrival at the Arab Super League, also strongly pressing on the Swedish Henrik Stenson, currently captain of the Europe team at the Ryder Cup 2023.
Thomas Paul Fleetwood, better known as Tommy Fleetwood (Southport, January 19, 1991), is an English golfer. As an amateur he won the Scottish Amateur Stroke Championship in 2009 and the following year finished second in several tournaments, before turning pro after winning the English Amateur.
On his professional debut at the Czech Open, he passed the cut and finished 67th. In September 2011 he won the Kazakhstan Open, part of the Challenge Tour, thus securing a place on the 2012 European Tour. In the first season he managed to keep the right to play in the European Tour thanks to a top ten finish at the South African Open, while in 2013 he achieved his first success at the Johnnie Walker Championship at Gleneagles, after a three-way play-off in which he beat Stephen Gallacher and Ricardo González.
Of note, in the 2015 vintage, an albatross that Fleetwood scored on the fourth hole (par 5) in the second round of the BMW PGA Championship. 2017 was the most successful year for Fleetwood. In January he won the Abu Dhabi Golf Championship and in March he finished second at the World Golf Championships, one shot behind Dustin Johnson.
In April, Shenzhen International loses in the play-off. After a fourth place in the U.S. Open, in July he wins the French Open. At the end of 2017 he finished first in the Race to Dubai. 2018 opened with the second victory of the Abu Dhabi Golf Championship, where he beat compatriot Ross Fisher by two strokes.
To the U.S. That year’s Open became the sixth player in tournament history to finish a round (fourth) with 63 strokes: he finished second, one shot behind Brooks Koepka. He also made his Ryder Cup debut together with Francesco Molinari: they became the first couple to win all four matches, making a decisive contribution to the European victory.
In 2019 Fleetwood took a second place in another major, the Open Championship. He later won the Nedbank Golf Challenge, thanks to three eagles on the final lap, after which he defeated Marcus Kinhult in the play-off. About a year later he played another play-off, at the Scottish Open, but was passed on the first hole by Aaron Rai.
