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The announcement of the two deniers selected for the next Hero Cup in January in Abu Dhabi in January gave rise to a tasty exchange between the Belgian Thomas Pieters and the captain-English player Tommy Fleetwood on twitter.
Hero Cup, Thomas Pieters and Tommy Fleetwood
On Wednesday the last two players selected to defend the chances of the team of Great Britain and Ireland on the one hand and those of Continental Europe on the other were designated.
The Englishman Richard Mansell and the Frenchman Antoine Rozner have been called up to strengthen their respective selection. In the little game of congratulations that flourished on twitter at the announcement of the identity of the two players, that of the Belgian Thomas Pieters gave rise to a good-natured pass of arms.
It foreshadows the atmosphere that will reign in this meeting imagined to prepare the players for a possible selection in the Ryder Cup in addition to allowing Luke Donald to do a squad review. The Belgian 36th player in the world praised Mansell for his "well-deserved" selection but that "it sucks to have Tommy Fleetwood as captain." The Englishman's response was quick: "You're lucky I'm not your captain because otherwise you would have stayed home." A few minutes later, Pieters explained that he was glad he wasn't because he prefers pizza to beer.
Which made Richard Mansell say that the match between the two European selections had already started! We can't wait to be in Abu Dhabi in mid-January! Thomas Paul Fleetwood (born 19 January 1991), better known as Tommy Fleetwood, is an English golfer.
As an amateur he won the Scottish Amateur Stroke Championship in 2009 and finished second in several tournaments the following year, before turning pro after winning the English Amateur. Making his pro debut at the Czech Open, he passed the cut and finished 67th.
In September 2011, he won the Kazakhstan Open, part of the Challenge Tour, thus securing a place on the 2012 European Tour. In the first season he managed to keep the right to play on the European Tour thanks to a top ten finish at the South African Open, while in 2013 his first success came at the Johnnie Walker Championship at Gleneagles, after a three-way playoff in which he beat Stephen Gallacher and Ricardo Gonzalez.
Of note, in the 2015 vintage, an albatross that Fleetwood scored on the fourth hole (par 5) in the second round of the BMW PGA Championship. 2017 was the most successful year for Fleetwood. In January he won the Abu Dhabi Golf Championship and in March he finished second at the World Golf Championships, one stroke behind Dustin Johnson.
In April, they lost to Shenzhen International in a play-off. After a fourth-place finish at the U.S. Open, in July he won the French Open. At the end of 2017 he thus finished first in the Race to Dubai. 2018 opened with his second victory at the Abu Dhabi Golf Championship, where he beat compatriot Ross Fisher by two strokes.
At the U.S. That year's Open he became the sixth player in tournament history to finish a round (the fourth) with 63 strokes: he finished second, one stroke behind Brooks Koepka. He also made his Ryder Cup debut alongside Francesco Molinari: they became the first pair to win all four matches, contributing decisively to the European victory.
In 2019 Fleetwood took a second place in another Major, the Open Championship. He then took down the Nedbank Golf Challenge with three eagles on the final round, after which he defeated Marcus Kinhult in the play-off. About a year later he played another play-off, at the Scottish Open, but was overtaken on the first hole by Aaron Rai.