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Tommy Fleetwood looking for fairy-tale Royal Birkdale win: 'Dreams do come true'
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It's tough to find a player more universally liked than Tommy Fleetwood, and this week at Royal Birkdale, it's downright impossible.
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It's tough to find a player more universally liked than Tommy Fleetwood, and this week at Royal Birkdale, it's downright impossible.
Published Jul 13, 2026 • 4 minute read
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SOUTHPORT, England — It’s tough to find a player more universally liked in the world of golf than Tommy Fleetwood and this week at Royal Birkdale, it’s downright impossible.
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“I don’t know anyone who would say a bad word about Tommy. He’s such a great guy,” said fellow countryman Matt Fitzpatrick, who played his junior golf a cohort behind Fleetwood. “He was always kind of ahead of his time in England golf, I would say. That was kind of the big thing there.”
Fleetwood, or “Tommy lad” as he’s affectionately known in these parts, is the hometown hero of this Open Championship in North West England.
The 35-year-old might qualify more as a chap than a lad at this point in his career, but the moniker isn’t going away anytime soon. Certainly not this week in front of the very people he grew up in front of in Southport, playing at the area’s most famous course.
“It’s obviously very, very special. I think for anybody that was lucky enough to grow up in the town of Southport. It’s such a golfing town, and The Open at Birkdale holds such a special place in the area,” Fleetwood said on Monday. “It’s a dream just to be competing in an Open here.”
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Fleetwood played in the 2017 Open at Royal Birkdale, bouncing back from a bad Thursday to rally and make the cut. This time around, he is world No. 9 and a very different player.
When Nick Taylor famously won the 2023 RBC Canadian Open in a playoff over Fleetwood, Shane Lowry and Justin Rose were seen racing from hole-to-hole with fans in the pouring rain late Sunday. Despite U.S. Open week starting the following day across the continent in Los Angeles, his European Ryder Cup teammates stayed, hoping to see their friend win for the first time outside of Europe where he had won six times and has now won eight.
How big is Fleetwood in northern England?
Fleetwood has always shown the talent and skill for golf’s biggest moments, but for years he seemed to come up short of golf’s biggest prizes. Despite more recent success, he finds himself at the top of many lists as best active player without a major win.
This week, there are murals in his honour around town that he is apparently yet to see. Fleetwood played much of his early golf 10 minutes from Royal Birkdale at Formby Hall, and began his journey in the game as a boy at Southport Municipal.
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“Yeah, the only club championship I won was at Formby Hall, so I am up on a board somewhere,” he said. “That’s where I’m still a member at to this day.”
He’s also a member at nearby Hillside Golf Club which neighbours the site of this week’s Open Championship.
Fleetwood has more experience than most at Royal Birkdale, but not as much as some might think, even if there is a story going around that he used to sneak onto the ten-time site of the Open Championship.
“I did it once or twice,” he confessed. “It wasn’t like every day.
“Birkdale was always kind of hallowed turf for people that lived in Southport and I definitely didn’t get to play here as much as I would like to.”
There will be no sneaking necessary this week for Fleetwood, who after that day in Canada finally broke through in North America by winning the 2025 Tour Championship and $10 million at East Lake in Atlanta.
Despite being a winner on both top tours and a frequent Ryder Cup hero, Fleetwood was asked on Monday whether having a career without a major championship victory would define him should he never take the final step and win one of the sport’s four biggest prizes.
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“I’ll have to wait and find out, I guess,” he said.
“We spend our lives giving it everything, and it might happen for me, it might not. I don’t want to think about it as if it doesn’t happen, all of those hours I spent chasing my dreams, what was it for kind of thing,” he said.
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“Whatever happens in my career, I’ll be able to look back and say that I gave it everything and I had an amazing time doing it. I would definitely much prefer to have a major or two or three on my resume by the time my career is over.”
There will be no shortage of people rooting for Fleetwood to write the finishing pages of a fairy-tale story this week at Royal Birkdale.
“Dreams do come true, we watch it all the time, but you’ll never find out if yours will unless you chase it,” he said.
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