Fleetwood shot 73 and 76 to miss the cut at the Ayrshire venue in 2016.
The last time Royal Troon staged the Open Championship, Tommy Fleetwood rated his chances of even making the cut as “zero”.
“Well I played terrible,” Fleetwood said with a smile when asked by the PA news agency for his memories of the 2016 Open. “I was really struggling with my game at the time.“The Open in St Andrews the year before is when I could pinpoint the moment where I felt like my game was about to take a really downward trajectory and Troon was pretty much at that point where I was at my lowest.
The 33-year-old fell as far as 188th before beginning to get his game back on track and he went on to win his second DP World Tour title in Abu Dhabi in early 2017. Those results were achieved without the assistance of long-time caddie Ian Finnis after he underwent open-heart surgery earlier this year, but the popular Evertonian made his return to the bag at the Genesis Scottish Open.“It feels great,” Fleetwood said after an opening 65 at the Renaissance Club. “Being back in the flow of things, it just felt like we hadn’t really had a break.
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