{"id":35985,"date":"2026-07-13T20:09:12","date_gmt":"2026-07-13T20:09:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/35985\/"},"modified":"2026-07-13T20:09:12","modified_gmt":"2026-07-13T20:09:12","slug":"fleetwood-prepared-for-very-special-tournament-at-the-open","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/35985\/","title":{"rendered":"Fleetwood prepared for &#8216;very special&#8217; tournament at The Open"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tommy Fleetwood says this year&#8217;s The Open Championship will be &#8220;very special&#8221; as it takes place at his home course, Royal Birkdale.<\/p>\n<p>Fleetwood has previously played the tournament at the Southport venue, finishing tied 27th in 2017.<\/p>\n<p>No English-born golfer has won The Open since Nick Faldo in 1992, when he won his third Claret Jug.<\/p>\n<p>Fleetwood won his first event on the PGA Tour at the Tour Championship last year, which secured him the 2025 FedEx Cup.<\/p>\n<p>However, the 35-year-old is still yet to win a major ahead of The Open this year.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s obviously very, very special,&#8221; Fleetwood said. &#8220;I think for anybody that was lucky enough to grow up in the town of Southport, it&#8217;s such a golfing town.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Southport&#8217;s own <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/TommyFleetwood1?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow\">@TommyFleetwood1<\/a> taking some time to meet fans at Royal Birkdale.<\/p>\n<p>Watch Live at the Range: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/SPpmcmIxV3\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/t.co\/SPpmcmIxV3<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Q2YnhhamxZ\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/Q2YnhhamxZ<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 The Open (@TheOpen) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/TheOpen\/status\/2076690028286054587?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow\">July 13, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The Open at Birkdale holds such a special place in the area. Yeah, it&#8217;s a dream just to be competing in an Open here, so I feel very, very lucky.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There&#8217;s no doubt about it, I think winning majors is kind of like the ultimate accolades in our sport.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s a difficult one. I don&#8217;t think I want to sort of look towards the future and worry about or think that I have to win a major to feel fulfilled.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I think, like everyone else out here, we spend our lives giving it everything, and it might happen for me, it might not.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Fleetwood has been grouped alongside John Rahm and Jordan Spieth, who won The Open in 2017, for the opening round on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tommy Fleetwood says this year&#8217;s The Open Championship will be &#8220;very special&#8221; as it takes place at his&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":35986,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[9822,692,9821,9820,714],"class_list":["post-35985","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tommy-fleetwood","tag-social","tag-sport","tag-sporty","tag-sportytv","tag-tommy-fleetwood"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35985","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=35985"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35985\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35986"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35985"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35985"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35985"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}