Tommy Fleetwood seemingly knew the question was coming. He was ready. A potential answer was placed on a tee for him, so to speak, and he didn’t miss.
Fleetwood was your leader entering final-round play at the Travelers Championship, meaning he an opportunity to win — and win for the first time for the first time on the PGA Tour, an item missing from a resume that includes seven DP World Tour wins, three (and likely four) Ryder Cup appearances and a top 20 world ranking. And that led to this question on Saturday:
I know it’s kind of a misleading stat because you’ve been successful all over the world, but not having won on the PGA Tour, is that something you really want to put to rest so you don’t have to see that anymore?
Fleetwood said he wasn’t sure — while biting his tongue.
“I don’t know,” he said, “I’m on top of a lot of stat lines for people that haven’t won on the PGA Tour, so to always be a No. 1 at something is always nice.”
He laughed. He then continued.
“Yeah, of course I would love to win on the PGA Tour,” Fleetwood said. “I think it’s like an element of your career that everybody wants, and I of course want it. I haven’t, this year especially I don’t feel like I’ve given myself — I’ve given myself like a back-end chance a couple of times this year, but I’ve not been in contention. So this is like my first real chance, so I’m really excited about that and looking forward to it. Again, it’s easy to put pressure on yourself, and the longer things go on, the more people talk about it, of course they do. But there’s also things that I’m very proud about as well, like my consistency, where I stand FedExCups and world rankings and things like that.
“So there’s a lot to be happy about, but, you know, of course, I’m not going to, you know, be silly and say I don’t care about it. Of course I want to win, and hopefully it will happen sooner rather than later.”
With that, here are the money payouts for the Travelers Championship, played at TPC River Highlands. The total purse is $20 million.
Travelers Championship purse, winner’s share
1. $3.6 million
2. $2.16 million
3. $1.36 million
4. $960,000
5. $800,000
6. $720,000
7. $670,000
8. $620,000
9. $580,000
10. $540,000
11. $500,000
12. $460,000
13. $420,000
14. $380,000
15. $360,000
16. $340,000
17. $320,000
18. $300,000
19. $280,000
20. $260,000
21. $240,000
22. $223,000
23. $207,500
24. $190,000
25. $175,000
26. $159,000
27. $152,500
28. $146,000
29. $140,000
30. $134,000
31. $128,500
32. $122,500
33. $116,500
34. $111,000
35. $106,500
36. $101,500
37. $96,500
38. $92,500
39. $88,500
40. $84,000
41. $80,000
42. $76,000
43. $72,000
44. $68,000
45. $64,000
46. $60,000
47. $56,000
48. $53,000
49. $50,000
50. $49,000
51. $48,000
52. $47,000
53. $46,000
54. $46,000
55. $45,500
56. $45,000
57. $44,500
58. $43,500
59. $43,000
60. $42,500
61. $41,500
62. $41,000
63. $40,500
64. $40,000
65. $39,500
66. $39,000
67. $38,000
68. $37,500
69. $38,000
70. $37,500
71. $37,000
72. $36,000
