Top 50 Tommy Fleetwood Quotes

Clare makes life so easy for me. From a business perspective, to being my wife, to being my friend. It allows me to go out and just play golf and work on a daily basis. I consider myself very, very lucky. She’s the person I trust the most and when it comes to business, that is extremely important.

Every time you tee off as a professional golfer, whether people say it or not, your first prerogative is to make the cut. You can’t win if you don’t make the cut.

It’s nice to have a few moments at night to help me switch off.

Seriously, as a father, I want golf to be cool for my children. Easy to access. If they want to play in tracksuits and trainers, why not?

Good putting starts with understanding the difference between a stroke and a hit. You want to make a stroke and let the energy of that back-and-through motion carry the ball to the hole.

The Ryder Cup is an event people dream about and sometimes it can only happen once.

I think I can compete in any company.

I’m not going to lie and say I don’t really mind about winning in America. Of course I do.

Everyone wants to look to the future and into the past. I stay focused on now.

There’s a lot of worse things going on in the world than me hitting a bad five wood.

You know, some of the performances, I have put myself on the world stage a bit more.

It’s a different style of golf; that stands out for sure when you come over to America. The style of play and the golf courses in America. Most golf courses in America either stretch your game, and test different elements of your game and the margins for error are smaller.

It’s really, really cool when you win a tournament. And it’s great for the people who go on the journey with you.

Struggling has done a couple of things for me. It is an experience to have and it makes you appreciate the good stuff.

Golf has been the sport of the social elite, with lawyers and doctors. But I have never been embarrassed by the looks I’ve been given by others. I have sometimes been looked at with condescension and it still happens now, but I know how to deal with it – I know whose opinions count.

At Isleworth, they get the greens up to the sort of speeds we see at Augusta, so it’s really helpful.

I think at the end of the day, winning is very difficult.

When I started playing well all I wanted to do was win. Which was a problem. When it became clear I wasn’t going to win, I would get fed up. I played poorly on a few Sundays, finishing 50th because I wasn’t interested in finishing 30th. But I’ve learned not to do that.

If you like dry humor, Henrik Stenson thinks he’s very funny, but I think I’m very funny in a dry sense as well.

To be on the winning team on your debut is amazing enough anyway but to do so alongside one of your best mates is the stuff of dreams.

I’m 28, your career is a long time. We’re not tennis players or football players. I’m just about reaching what should be my peak year.

I got recognized at the market the other day, but, no, nothing that spectacular. There’s nobody fainting in the street as I walk past.

I’ve used Nike clubs since I was 13.

There’s always a sense of, ‘Oh, if I change my irons, they might not be as good or might not perform as well.’

I don’t particularly like talking about it much, but after a year of struggling, when you start playing better, you have a much better perspective on the game.

It was such a relief to win. You tell yourself you can do it, but until you do you don’t know for sure. And I found out I can do it by doing what I do, not what others do.

I have the confidence knowing if the game is on I can win the big events. That’s a massive difference. Until you’ve done it and proven it to yourself, you can’t know if you can.

I’ve pictured winning the U.S. Open a lot of times before.

I shaved my head once and learned that I’ve got, like, a cone head. So I’m never gonna do that again.

Never rush through the stoke. Nervous or not, take your time, and the result is almost always better.

I can always take a moment when things are going well, when pressure might build, to think: ‘You’ve had a lot worse than this.’

If I’m going to be away from my family then I want to make the practice count more.

Going into my first Ryder Cup, my big fear was that I would contribute nothing to the team and that we’d lose.

You never really get a chance to sit back and look at where you are or what you’ve done. If you stop working, you’re gonna get overtaken quickly. You can’t really take your foot off the gas – until you decide to pack it in.

Golf’s not an easy game. You keep working at it and, sooner or later, something good will happen.

It’s hard if you don’t quite feel on your game to go out and put scores on the board.

When you’re growing up, what it’s really all about is playing so well the crowd get into it, and the roars you hear are those that you are creating.

Par is your friend out there. Doesn’t matter what holes they are.

I don’t have the look of a golfer. Do I look like a rock star? I didn’t make it playing guitar so I started playing golf!

My driver is my strongest club – it’s what my game kind of revolves around.

I remember going to The Open in 1998 aged seven and snatching a picture of Tiger walking past.

I’d much rather be in this position where people might be talking about me as a contender than turning up and sort of being a no-show.

It is the biggest sporting occasion in the world when it comes around so I want to be there, I want to play multiple Ryder Cups. I just want to be part of that whole thing.

I have one idiosyncrasy that helps my driving accuracy. I grip down on the club. This makes it easier to control the clubface.

I tried changing my swing because I thought it would make me better. I thought it would make me a world-class golfer. I was a bit naive and I was a bit silly and just got going the wrong way.

I’m playing in the best tournaments in the world with the best players in the world. That’s good stuff. It’s great. The extra attention hasn’t made a difference to me.

Race to Dubai winner, playing in Ryder Cups, winning majors – these are all great parts of a career you want to have.

Whether I win or not, it won’t be down to inexperience and hopefully it won’t be down to some sort of mental misjudgment.

I’m not saying I’m anywhere near the David Beckham league, but because I played well and Moliwood and probably the hair and everything, I did start to get recognized more and more.

You can’t really force four tournaments a year.