Tommy Fleetwood extended a PGA Tour record he’d like to not have by recording a 42nd career top 10 without a win with his latest runner-up at the Travelers Championship. But it gets even more painful when you take a closer look at his penultimate putt.
Well, if it was a mini Ryder Cup preview of sorts, European fans might have been better off covering their eyes for the final three holes of the Travelers Championship on Sunday evening.
One by one, in the wake of their opening rounds at the season-ending DP World Tour Championship, leading European players lined up to verbalise their own attitudes regarding playing for pay or playing for pride.
The development of TP5 and TP5x Stripe took 42 months and included more than 300 hours of robot testing, nearly 20,000 shots recorded and more than 550 prototypes.
Fleetwood made the point that an Olympic medal wasn’t something he ever had a reason to think of because it wasn’t part of golf. Now, it resides in a fundamentally special place.
The story of the 72nd green doesn’t begin to tell the story of a final day littered with a whole range of shot-making, all the way from abysmal to amazing.
If you watched even just a single second of this year’s Ryder Cup, you heard about Patrick Cantlay’s hat. Or should we say the absence of a hat? There were rumours circulating about why the American wouldn’t don his Team USA cap and reports of a “fractured” locker room due to the decision.
That Rickie Fowler conceded a short putt to Tommy Fleetwood on the 16th hole to assure Europe the half point it needed to win the Cup was no doubt classy. The lingering question is whether it was smart.
Australian Golf Digest
