{"id":266360,"date":"2025-09-30T11:21:10","date_gmt":"2025-09-30T11:21:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/266360\/"},"modified":"2025-09-30T11:21:10","modified_gmt":"2025-09-30T11:21:10","slug":"ryder-cup-hero-tommy-fleetwood-looks-unrecognisable-without-iconic-long-hair","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/266360\/","title":{"rendered":"Ryder Cup hero Tommy Fleetwood looks unrecognisable without iconic long hair"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tommy Fleetwood has not always had his iconic long hair, photos from his amateur days have revealed.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Ryder Cup<\/a> hero is instantly recognisable on the course with his shoulder length locks and beard.<\/p>\n

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Fleetwood looked unrecognisable with a different look years before his Ryder Cup heroicsCredit: Getty<\/p>\n

However, a young Fleetwood sported a completely different look at the beginning of his career.<\/p>\n

Following Europe’s triumph at Bethpage Black, The R&A (Royal & Ancient Golf Club of St Andrews) shared a series of throwback snaps of the victorious team on social media.<\/p>\n

Amongst them was a picture of Fleetwood<\/a> on the course before joining the professional ranks.<\/p>\n

Prior to adopting his iconic long hair, he sported a short and simple cut along with no facial hair.<\/p>\n

The look leaves the teenager looking unrecognisable compared to how fans know him today.<\/p>\n

Fleetwood enjoyed an impressive amateur career before turning professional aged 19 in 2010.<\/p>\n

His early years on the course saw him win both the Scottish Amateur Championship and English Amateur.<\/p>\n

He also prepared for his future Ryder Cup heroics by representing Great Britain & Ireland at the 2009 Walker Cup.<\/p>\n

The amateur team event against the USA follows a similar format to the professional tournament.<\/p>\n

Fleetwood would also reach third in the world amateur rankings before featuring on the Challenge Tour.<\/p>\n

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Fleetwood was yet to adopt his long hair and beard during his days as an amateurCredit: instagram \/ @therandagolf\"AUCHTERARDER,<\/a><\/p>\n

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The FedEx Cup winner enjoyed an impressive career before turning professional in 2010Credit: Getty<\/p>\n

Since turning professional, he has collected 11 individual event wins.<\/p>\n

Of those, seven have been on the European Tour before an agonising wait for his maiden PGA Tour triumph.<\/p>\n

Fleetwood endured an agonising wait for his maiden PGA Tour triumph, clinching his first victory in August<\/a> after 164 events and six runner-up finishes.<\/p>\n

The 34-year-old won the Tour Championship to become FedEx Cup champion at East Lake.<\/p>\n

He followed up that win by inspiring Europe to their first away Ryder Cup win since 2012<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Fleetwood won four of his five matches as Luke Donald’s side clinched a 15-13 victory.<\/p>\n

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Fleetwood had a very different look during the early years of his golf careerCredit: Getty<\/p>\n

The Olympic silver medallist was also named as the recipient of the Nicklaus-Jacklin Award at the end of Sunday’s singles action.<\/p>\n

Previous winners of the award, presented to the player who best embodies the spirit of the event, include Dustin Johnson, Sergio Garcia and Justin Rose.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tommy Fleetwood has not always had his iconic long hair, photos from his amateur days have revealed. The…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":266361,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[1430,1456,8656,62,1506,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-266360","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-golf","8":"tag-golf","9":"tag-pga-tour","10":"tag-ryder-cup","11":"tag-sports","12":"tag-tommy-fleetwood","13":"tag-united-states","14":"tag-unitedstates","15":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115292988353224325","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266360","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=266360"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266360\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/266361"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=266360"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=266360"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=266360"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}