[PHOTO: Kevin C. Cox]
Talk about saving the best for last. Tommy Fleetwood’s victory at the Tour Championship has to be one of the most popular wins in a while (save for Rory McIlroy at the Masters). Helping matters was Scottie Scheffler and Keegan Bradley enduring miscues at the par-3 15th hole, preventing Fleetwood from playing the role of party-pooper.
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Not that he will care very much – nor did most of the fans on site at East Lake Golf Club as the affable Fleetwood’s winless streak after 164 PGA Tour starts finally came to an end, a streak he was well aware of but didn’t seem to be sweating about.
“I love that I’m up there again, and it’s just another chance,” he said after the third round. “It’s another opportunity. It’s another day where I get to go out and do what I love and enjoy it and be in contention and just go and hit the golf shots, and what is like the best pressure, if you like. We’re trying to win a golf tournament and do something very special… You never know. Tomorrow might be my time, it might not, but I’ll still have a great time doing it.”
As it turned out, it was his time indeed. A 20-footer for birdie at the second hole had to calm the nerves while birdies at the sixth and seventh more than offset a bogey at the fifth. Yet with Patrick Cantlay, Bradley, Scheffler and Russell Henley refusing to relent, it might have been an adventurous par save at the eighth after a wayward tee shot into a hospitality area that kept things on track, a timely 10-footer for par falling.
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Fleetwood’s gear has undergone some changes this year. At the Travelers Championship, although his driver model remained the same, he changed shafts to Fujikura’s Ventus TR Blue 6X. He employed the same shaft in a new mini-driver, TaylorMade’s 13.5-degree r7 Quad, which he used frequently off the tee at East Lake as well to rank fourth in driving accuracy.
Fleetwood’s P7TW irons, which he used to rank eighth in greens in regulation, have been a staple in his bag but the TaylorMade Milled Grind prototype wedges are relatively new additions.
However, it was his TaylorMade Spider Tour T3 mallet putter that was the true hero in the bag. The black head features five white sightlines on each side framing a single gold sightline in the middle on the putter’s topline. The grip is a SuperStroke Mid Slim 2.0 and the putter has been in the bag since just after the Masters.
“I got to Hilton Head, and I felt like trying a different putter just for something different to look at,” said Fleetwood, who ranked first in strokes gained: putting. “I knew I was stroking it well, I was putting OK, but just [seeking] a different energy about my putting.
“Got on the putting green with James, with TaylorMade, and we tried a bunch of different putters, and I ended up with a Spider, which I’ve never played before. A certain way that the lines worked for me that we’d drawn on that helped me line up and then hit the putt, and that’s been great… The Spider has definitely been a massive help since changing at Hilton Head. I think my putting stats have been really good, and I feel really good on the greens.”
But not as good as PGA Tour win No.1.
The clubs Tommy Fleetwood used to win the 2025 Tour Championship:
Ball: TaylorMade TP5x Pix
Drivers: TaylorMade Qi35 (Fujikura Ventus Blue 6X), 10.5 degrees; TaylorMade r7 Quad Mini (Fujikura Ventus Blue 6X), 13.5 degrees
5-wood: TaylorMade Qi35, 18 degrees
9-wood: TaylorMade Qi10, 24 degrees
Irons (5-PW): TaylorMade P7TW
Wedges: TaylorMade Milled Grind Hi-Toe (52 degrees); TaylorMade Milled Grind prototype (56, 60 degrees)
Putter: TaylorMade Spider Tour T3
