Fleetwood<\/a>, on the other hand, will need some magic on Sunday to get his hands on the Claret Jug.<\/p>\n\u201cLike walking up \u2060to every green, it’s like the most amazing ovation that you can imagine,\u201d Ryder Cup stalwart Fleetwood said.<\/p>\n
\u201cI sort of acknowledge them in \u200bmy way because I still want to stay in my bubble. But it just happens that there’s like thousands of people in my bubble with me that are willing me on.<\/p>\n
\u201cLike there’s a lot of people I know out there. But I just try and be myself and I try and focus as much as I can on my game and have everybody on the journey with me.\u201d<\/p>\n
It was an incredible week for Burns who was not even expecting to be playing at the 154th Open with \u200bhis pregnant \u200bwife Caroline’s due date \u200btwo days before the start of the championship.<\/p>\n
But after daughter Belle arrived early, Burns decided to compete and is now on the verge of celebrating his first major triumph.<\/p>\n
After a disappointing opening round of three-over 73, the 29-year-old carded a men’s major record-equalling 62 on Friday and a 65 on Saturday.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis golf tournament was honestly so far off of my radar and expectations of playing,\u201d Burns, who finished runner-up at the US Open this year, said.<\/p>\n
\u201cI mean, Caroline’s due date was Tuesday this week. She was like four days late with our \u200bson. I \u2060just didn’t think there was any \u200cpossible way, and little Belle had different plans for us.\u201d<\/p>\n
Even when his daughter was born early, Burns was not \u200bsure about leaving his family. However, his wife helped him take the call.<\/p>\n
\u201cI wasn’t thinking much about it. Caroline was kind of like, so what are you thinking for next week? I was like, I don’t know. Should we talk about it? She was like, yeah,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
\u201cUltimately she’s the one that really encouraged me to come over and play. She basically said I’ve got this at home. Go over there and give it your best, and here we are.\u201d<\/p>\n
Burns finished bogey, bogey, bogey on Thursday and it looked like he might be booking an early return ticket back to Louisiana. But within two days, he is now challenging for the Claret Jug.<\/p>\n
World No1 Scottie Scheffler endured a frustrating day and made only one birdie in a level-par 70 that left the defending champion six shots off the pace.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tommy Fleetwood will be hoping to capitalise on strong home support as he aims to win The Open…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":39217,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[44,15674,6336,82,714],"class_list":["post-39216","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tommy-fleetwood","tag-golf","tag-sport-team","tag-standard","tag-story","tag-tommy-fleetwood"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39216","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=39216"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39216\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39217"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39216"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}