Tommy Fleetwood says his PGA Tour friends began questioning his ‘home country’ after seeing fan following at the Olympics

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Tommy Fleetwood is over with the third round of the 2024 Paris Olympics, with his score being 13 under 200.

In the opening round, he made four birdies to finish at 67. In the next round, he dropped three birdies on the front nine and three on the back nine to land at 64, where he also had an eagle. In the third round, he shot three birdies to end up at 69.

After the third round, Tommy Fleetwood was told that in every tee people shouted ‘Tommy’. Hearing that, he explained his thoughts about the crowd and how his PGA Tour friends asked whether the fan following was from his home country.

“Hideki and Wyndham said over the first two days, ‘Is this your home country?’ They have been amazing with me, and it’s definitely a different crowd to what we are used to. It’s definitely an Olympic crowd, and the atmosphere has been amazing,” Tommy Fleetwood said (via ASAP Sports).
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He continued:

“I always consider myself very lucky like with the support I guess, connections with people that I make.
“But these have been great, and absolutely to be playing the Olympics, to be in contention and to have the support that you have, I mean, they are things that you dream of; if you don’t enjoy this, then what’s the point.”
In the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, Tommy Fleetwood finished T16 with a score of 273 (70, 69, 64 and 70).

Where do Tommy Fleetwood and others stand on the Olympic golf leaderboard after three rounds?
Tommy Fleetwood is right after Xander Schauffele and Jon Rahm on the leaderboard, just one stroke behind the leading pair, at the 2024 Paris Olympics.

Hideki Matsuyama is tied for fourth place, while Rory McIlroy is at T6. Matsuyama is a stroke ahead of McIlroy. Scheffler is T6. Here’s the entire list of standings after round three of the Men’s golf event at the 2024 Paris Olympics:

T1. Jon Rahm -14
T1. Xander Schauffele -14
3. Tommy Fleetwood -13
T4. Nicolai Hojgaard -11
T4. Hideki Matsuyama -11
T6. Rory McIlroy -10
T6. Scottie Scheffler -10
T6. Tom Kim -10
T6. Thomas Detry -10
T10. Ludvig Aberg -9
T10. Jason Day -9
T10. Joaquin Niemann -9
T13. Christiaan Bezuidenhout -8
T13. Thorbjorn Olesen -8
T13. Victor Perez -8
T13. Erik van Rooyen -8
T17. Byeong Hun An -7
T17. Corey Conners -7
T17. Alejandro Tosti -7
T17. C.T. Pan -7
T21. Matteo Manassero -6
T21. Stephan Jaeger -6
T23. Wyndham Clark -5
T23. Shane Lowry -5
T23. Ryan Fox -5
T23. Collin Morikawa -5
T23. Carlos Ortiz -5
T23. David Puig -5
T29. Min Woo Lee -4
T29. Guido Migliozzi -4
T31. Adrien Dumont de Chassart -3
T31. Fabrizio Zanotti -3
T31. Sami Valimaki -3
T34. Nick Taylor -2
T34. Sepp Straka -2
T34. Joel Girrbach -2
T34. Shubhankar Sharma -2
T38. Viktor Hovland -1
T38. Matthias Schmid -1
T38. Gavin Green -1
T38. Abraham Ancer -1
T38. Alex Noren -1
T38. Tapio Pulkkanen -1
T44. Rafa Campos 0
T44. Keita Nakajima 0
T46. Nico Echavarria +1
T46. Kevin Yu +1
T48. Gaganjeet Bhullar +2
T48. Kristoffer Ventura +2
T50. Adrian Meronk +3
T50. Emiliano Grillo +3
T50. Dou Zecheng +3
T53. Daniel Hillier +5
T53. Matt Fitzpatrick +5
T55. Kiradech Aphibarnrat +6
T55. Mito Pereira +6
T55. Phachara Khongwatmai +6
58. Yuan Yechun +7
59. Camilo Villegas +9
60. Matthieu Pavon +10
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