Tommy Fleetwood says one part of his game is very underrated, ‘I have that little chip on my shoulder’

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It took Tommy Fleetwood 164 attempts before he won his first PGA Tour event and when he finally got the job done, he did it on one of the grandest stages of them all.

Fleetwood has been one of the most consistent golfers on the PGA Tour over the past few years, but he really struggled to get over the line when it came to winning, until the Tour Championship last month that is.

Over the past couple of years, Fleetwood has been working closely with sports psychologist Bob Rotella, and that has obviously really helped him.

The 34-year-old Englishman has been riding a wave of popularity in America over the past few years.

The fact that the American crowd were willing him on to win at East Lake rather than one of their own, so to speak, tells us all we need to know.

Fleetwood will play an important role for Europe at the Ryder Cup in two weeks’ time, and one part of his game which has greatly improved since last season will undoubtedly be a potent weapon for him at Bethpage Black.

Tommy Fleetwood says one part of his game is very underrated

Fleetwood has the full package. There is no doubt about that now after he won the Tour Championship in style.

The one thing that seemed to hold him back most of the time was his putting.

However, Fleetwood explained how he thinks his work on the greens in general has been underrated, when speaking on the No Laying Up Podcast.

He said: “I mean the putter has definitely had a big impact.

“After the Masters I went onto the putting green at Hilton Head on the Monday. So, I never feel like my putting gets much credit, and I never feel like I’m as bad of a putter as it’s made out.

“Maybe I have that little chip on my shoulder or narrative about it at times. Obviously there are times when I’ve putted poorly but I’ve also had some really good seasons putting and it goes unnoticed at times.

“This year I was putting okay at the start of the year but I wasn’t putting great. After the Masters where I didn’t feel like I putted particularly well I went to the putting green at Hilton Head and Adrian and James were there from TaylorMade.

“I wanted to try a few different putters literally just for a different feel, a different energy on the greens. I felt like I was doing all the right things but something wasn’t clicking and I just wanted to change that.

“So I ended up with the Black Spider. It made lining up easier. So I went and putted with that at Hilton Head and putted really well and I just just kept putting well.

“I wanted to putt a bit more aggressively and it’s definitely had a monumental improvement with the Spider, but I feel like I’ve putted well in the past and it has gone unnoticed at times.“

Tommy Fleetwood’s PGA Tour putting stats since 2018

Fleetwood has never been the best putter and he’s certainly not got what you would call a natural technique.

However, the Englishman is certainly not the worst putter on the PGA Tour, far from it in fact.

Here are his stats on the greens from the past seven seasons on the PGA Tour:

Those numbers are fairly inconsistent but in two of the past three seasons, he has actually putted incredibly well.

Fleetwood could take his game to another level entirely if he manages to find a way of jumping inside the top 10 in the strokes gained putting category.

With his incredibly strong work ethic, nobody should rule that out.