After more than 160 attempts and years of close calls, Tommy Fleetwood finally stepped into the winner\u2019s circle on the PGA Tour, capturing the 2025 Tour Championship at East Lake and along with it, the $10 million FedEx Cup purse. Fleetwood\u2019s breakthrough came in his 164th Tour start\u2014snapping a historic winless streak for the men\u2019s golf tournament.<\/p>\n
Fleetwood nabbed his first PGA Tour title this week since starting out as a professional golfer in 2010. His wait for victory brought him 41 top-10 and 30 top-five finishes and six runner-up results, the highest number of attempts for any golfer without a win in the past century, according to ESPN Research<\/a>. The FedEx Cup\u2019s revised rules this year crowned the Tour Championship victor as FedEx Cup champion, creating $10 million in prize money for Fleetwood to take home.\u00a0<\/p>\n The 34-year-old Southport, UK-born athlete\u2019s persistence in the face of public disappointment became a hallmark of his career. He was known colloquially as \u201cthat one guy that never wins<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cWell, it\u2019s a shame that the story\u2019s gone,\u201d Fleetwood said in a press conference<\/a> after his win. \u201cI enjoyed it while it lasted, in a sick way. But I hope that\u2026 we can talk about plenty more things in the future.\u201d<\/p>\n Navigating ups and downs through the final round, Fleetwood described moments of doubt\u2014and the mental process that brought him back from them.\u00a0<\/p>\n \u201cYou have to deal with those little demons that are in the back of your mind, and doubt creeps in,\u201d he said. \u201cThink positively, speak positively to yourself\u2026if you consistently do the right things and persist, success can be achieved.\u201d<\/p>\n His final-round score of 2-under-par and total of 18-under placed him three strokes ahead of his closest competitors.<\/p>\n Success mentality<\/p>\n Despite his popularity for never winning, Fleetwood kept a positive attitude about the online narrative surrounding him regularly falling just short.<\/p>\n \u201cYou should never fear failing,\u201d Fleetwood told NBC<\/a> after his win. \u201cYou should never be afraid of putting yourself in those positions again. Failure isn\u2019t scary. Not giving yourself a chance is.\u201d<\/p>\n Growing up, Fleetwood often snuck onto<\/a> the legendary Royal Birkdale course in Southport with his father to practice when they couldn\u2019t afford memberships. Now, Fleetwood is tens of millions of dollars richer.<\/p>\n Even before the PGA win, his $33.4 million in career earnings were the most for a golfer who hadn\u2019t won on tour, according to ESPN. He had also won seven times on the DP World Tour and three other times around the world. With the $10 million purse earned Sunday, Fleetwood\u2019s 2025 total earnings top $18.5 million, according to his Yahoo Sports player profile<\/a>.<\/p>\n Fleetwood said after the win, he\u2019s eager to inspire others through his perseverance.\u00a0<\/p>\n \u201cI\u2019ll look back and I\u2019ll be able to tell people\u2026 keep coming back after tough losses and keep working\u2026and then finally get it done. I\u2019m proof that it can happen.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After more than 160 attempts and years of close calls, Tommy Fleetwood finally stepped into the winner\u2019s circle…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":29352,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[4989,11817,11818,11819,2613,6463,6734,56,94,714,6733,11820,143],"class_list":["post-29351","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tommy-fleetwood","tag-career","tag-career-advice","tag-career-success","tag-entrepreneurs","tag-instagram","tag-nbc","tag-social-media","tag-sports","tag-success","tag-tommy-fleetwood","tag-x","tag-yahoo","tag-youtube"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29351","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29351"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29351\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29352"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29351"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29351"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29351"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}