Just one month ago, Tommy Fleetwood stood on the 18th green at East Lake Golf Club, clutching the Tour Championship trophy and a $10 million FedEx Cup prize. The emotional scenes showed an American crowd chanting “Tommy, Tommy, Tommy” as he finally claimed his breakthrough PGA Tour victory after 164 attempts. Most observers celebrated the triumph as a well-deserved reward for years of persistence and near misses.

However, nobody could have predicted that this historic achievement would somehow be questioned just weeks later. Yet that’s precisely what happened at Friday’s Ryder Cup press conference at Bethpage Black , prompting Luke Donald to deliver one of the most pointed captain’s defenses in recent memory.

A reporter asked Donald whether he found it “odd” that Tommy hadn’t w

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