Fleetwood Guarantees To Pay For Caddy Breaking Dell Match-Play Crosswalk Sign In Half

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Tommy Fleetwood pulled-off the par of all pars to not only win 1-up and leave a more fancied Bryson DeChambeau bog-smacked but also clinch the group win on day three of the WGC – Dell Match-Play Championship in Austin, Texas.

Fleetwood’s caddy Ian Finnis had earlier broken a wooden crosswalk sign in half in trying to remove it so Fleetwood wouldn’t hit it while playing his shot.

Finnis looked surprised as what he’d down and then after he threw down the top half of the sign, he shrugged his shoulders, and as Finnus was walking back to take his place beside Fleetwood, everyone began laughing.  Well all except Fleetwood.

“I wasn’t laughing as I just know how clumsy he is, so I was expecting it, to be honest,” said Fleetwood.

“He’s not got the lightest touch. Like as soon as he touched it I think it snapped and it was done then. We can sort of reimburse the tournament for a new walking sign”.

The Ryder Cup winning hero then had the crowd on their feet applauding at the last, and needing only a half to win the match, but with Fleetwood’s shot on 18 landing heading some 70-left of the flag to be well off the fairway and way down below on the bank of small stream and clearly leaving Fleetwood an impossible shot and the likelihood of DeChambean halving their match.

After much deliberation and working out his stance, Fleetwood brilliantly got a club to his ball to the back of the green, chipped from near 90-feet to then some three-feet and leave DeChambeau gob-smacked in holing the par putt of all par putts.

The reigning US Open champ stepped-up and horribly missed his birdie putt from eight-feet to hand Fleetwood the half he needed and not only win the match but win the group to go through to the last 16.

“Well, I could hit the ball down there on 18, which was lucky, it was just the direction that might have been the problem,” said Fleetwood.

“But I knew I could hit the ball so I could find a way into that, and then I was just working out sort of angles or which way I can get it to go or anything. It came out way better than I thought it would.

“It helps when you can ground your club in a hazard now, just having an idea of sort of what the ground is like. But still, I had no idea it would be like that.

“And then I had a chance of a flop shot. I had a decent lie. Actually that was a very impressive shot, give myself a chance for a putt, Bryson missed, and knock it in and yeah, bit of a strange way to get a par on 18, but enough is enough”.



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