Just a few days after he helped Group Europe win again the Ryder Cup, Tommy Fleetwood is again in motion on the Alfred Dunhill Championship.
The Englishman hit a wayward shot Friday through the second spherical of the event and struck a fan within the head, inflicting the gentleman to bleed profusely.
The person was Andrew Summerskill, a Yorkshire man who was there to observe the motion, per The Telegraph.
He held a white material on his head to cease the bleeding as followers surrounded him. Fleetwood would ultimately come over and apologize as soon as he realized what had occurred.
The 32-year-old Fleetwood additionally signed a glove for Summerskill. It’s unknown if the patron wanted medical consideration. This incident isn’t the primary time somebody was left bloodied by a golf ball, as Adam Scott hit somebody on the Open Championship.
Each golfers apologized and signed gloves for the lads they bloodied.
This in fact comes lower than per week after Fleetwood made his nation proud, serving to the Europeans seize the forty fourth Ryder Cup.
Fleetwood appeared unstoppable for a lot of the event. He was a key member of Group Europe as he helped earn three factors and gained the match over Rickie Fowler that made the Europeans’ victory official. Fleetwood went 3-1-0 to enhance his total Cup document to 7-3-2.
Nevertheless, it appears his Ryder Cup hangover has adopted him to St. Andrews. Fleetwood shot a 1-over 73 within the second spherical and is 11 pictures off chief Matthew Fitzpatrick, a fellow Group Europe member. Fitzpatrick posted a second-round 64 to carry a one-stroke lead over Grant Forrest and Nacho Elvira.
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