{"id":382587,"date":"2025-08-29T13:54:09","date_gmt":"2025-08-29T13:54:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/382587\/"},"modified":"2025-08-29T13:54:09","modified_gmt":"2025-08-29T13:54:09","slug":"winless-pga-tour-pros-hilarious-self-mocking-response-to-tommy-fleetwoods-breakthrough-win","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/382587\/","title":{"rendered":"Winless PGA Tour pro&#8217;s hilarious self-mocking response to Tommy Fleetwood&#8217;s breakthrough win"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>A long-time PGA Tour professional has mocked himself on social media after being reminded he is still without a victory in 225 attempts.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>It took Tommy Fleetwood 164 starts before he finally entered the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.golfmagic.com\/tour\/pga-tour\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">PGA Tour<\/a> winners&#8217; enclosure, and he did it in some style with a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.golfmagic.com\/tour\/pga-tour\/can-tommy-fleetwood-transform-nearly-man-serial-winner\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">three-shot victory at the Tour Championship<\/a> last week.<\/p>\n<p>His breakthrough at East Lake earned the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.golfmagic.com\/tour\/ryder-cup\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ryder Cup<\/a> star a $10million bonus and the title of FedExCup champion, and prompted sports journalist Brian Kirschner to aim a subtle dig at Byeong-Hun An on X.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">So happy for him. It\u2019s like seeing your best friend get married but you are still single \ud83d\ude02<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Byeong Hun An (@ByeongHunAn) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ByeongHunAn\/status\/1960692281700237809?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">August 27, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>An won twice on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.golfmagic.com\/tour\/dp-world-tour\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">DP World Tour<\/a>, including the flagship BMW PGA Championship in 2015, before earning his PGA Tour card two years later and settling in the United States.<\/p>\n<p> Article continues below ADVERTISEMENT<\/p>\n<p>The 33-year-old has made over $21million in career earnings but has yet to lift any silverware, coming close to ending his drought on numerous occasions.<\/p>\n<p>An has been <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pgatour.com\/player\/33948\/byeong-hun-an\/standings\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">runner-up five times and has 19 other top-five finishes<\/a>, and Kirschner told him the he is now &#8220;officially the best golfer on Tour without a win now that Tommy got it done!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The South Korean, known for his good humour on social media, replied: &#8220;So happy for him. It&#8217;s like seeing your best friend get married but you are still single!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>An will get another crack at making his breakthrough next season after comfortably retaining his PGA Tour card, finishing 74th in the FedExCup standings.<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe to our Newsletter<script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A long-time PGA Tour professional has mocked himself on social media after being reminded he is still without&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":382588,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4106],"tags":[2826,79,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-382587","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-golf","8":"tag-golf","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115112395775035796","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/382587","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=382587"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/382587\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/382588"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=382587"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=382587"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=382587"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}