Tommy Fleetwood Spent 3 Years Fixing Key Issue in His Game Before It Finally ‘Paid Off’ at East Lake Tommy Fleetwood spent 3 years fixing a critical swing flaw with Butch Harmon. Here's how it finally

It took Tommy Fleetwood 164 PGA Tour starts to claim his first victory. Despite being recognized as one of golf’s elite ball-strikers, a definite breakthrough remained elusive. Technical refinement takes time, even for the world’s best players, something Fleetwood needed to undergo as well.

Fleetwood’s transformation began in 2023 when he started working with legendary coach Butch Harmon . The statistics tell a compelling story of gradual improvement. In 2021, Fleetwood ranked a distant 105th in overall strokes gained. Then, he jumped to 23rd in 2022. But everything clicked in 2023. He surged to 5th in strokes gained.

Harmon identified specific technical flaws that plagued Fleetwood’s game. “The problem with Tommy’s swing,” Harmon explained on the Son of a Butch podcast , was tha