Tommy Fleetwood's Major Championship Potential in 2026

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00:00Looking at 2026, I'm going to read you all four of the major venues, right?

00:04Masters, of course, Augusta National, that is a move.

00:06PGA Championship at Aronimink, the U.S. Open at Shinnecock,

00:10and the Open Championship at Royal Birkdale,

00:12which, boy, that'd be a heck of a home game win for Tommy.

00:15Which of those venues do you see best suited to Tommy winning a first career major?

00:22I wouldn't say, I mean, Masters.

00:25He's had some good finishes at that event.

00:29But still, man, he's not the longest player.

00:33He doesn't hit his irons necessarily crazy high.

00:35Now, I wouldn't call him a short player, but his season average off of the tee is less than 300 yards.

00:42He's deadly accurate with that mini driver.

00:44So you have to point to golf courses that maybe are going to be playing a little firmer.

00:48I've never played Shinne, but I've heard that golf course can get really firm.

00:51I think back to when they lost the golf course back at the last time they played it,

00:57when I was at Brooks Koepka won.

00:59Is that right?

01:00At Shinne?

01:00Yeah.

01:01I don't know how that place plays.

01:03It's really hard for me to give a good guesstimate there.

01:08And then the U.S. Open is at Shinne.

01:11Where is it?

01:12Royal Birkdale.

01:13PJ's where?

01:13PJ's, Aronimink.

01:14I don't know anything about Aronimink either.

01:16I'm sorry.

01:16Yeah.

01:17So I've never played Birkdale.

01:19My mind would go to Birkdale with how well he's played at Open Championships,

01:24how important it is to be accurate off the tee.

01:28That's definitely a starting pack for any Open Championship for the most part.

01:33The Open, I think, will be the place where he either wins that or a U.S. Open.

01:38Yeah.

01:39I think, look, Royal Birkdale is the one I'm rooting for, for sure,

01:42because the scenes there, the storylines there would be unreal.

01:45Insane.

01:45I'm so curious having, you know, literally set eyes on the property,

01:50Shinnecock, while it's getting just hammered with the deluge of rain

01:54and, like, wanting to get back there as fast as I could

01:56and actually play the place to understand it better.

01:58It's just that I think back to, I forget which guest we had on,

02:03but just talking about Scotty at the U.S. Open at Pinehurst

02:06and how, you know, you'd think that the U.S. Open is this execution test

02:10and the best iron player is really going to, you know, thrive in that setting,

02:15but in reality, the way those greens were shaped,

02:18there was just one spot on each of those greens where you had to hit the golf ball.

02:21So, really, when everyone was playing the same sort of iron game and having the same putts,

02:25and it really kind of almost neutralized Scotty's advantage in that sort of situation.

02:30So, I really would love to understand more the Shinnecock green complexes.

02:35And, you know, I mean, of course, I've watched it on TV for past U.S. Opens,

02:38but understanding the property better and who it's going to,

02:41because you'd think a guy like Tommy Fleetwood who hits it straight

02:44and who can keep it out of all the nasty fescue you see lining those fairways,

02:50Shinnecock, that venue would suit him.

02:52But I'd have to understand more about those greens and where they can put pins

02:56and how that could neutralize some of his advantages to say whether or not

02:59I like that better than Birkdale as a place for him to win a first major.

03:02Tommy can win any of these major championship venues.

03:06You could point to one being better than another.

03:08I think Firm always helps Tommy just from a linked standpoint.

03:12He's not the longest.

03:13He's definitely not the shortest, but he's deadly accurate.

03:17And he hits it where he's looking more often than not.

03:19A very solid putter.

03:21That's improved a ton over the years.

03:23Really, he probably could have won major championships to this point

03:27if his putter is at the level that it's at right now.

03:30I would say that Tommy does not have a weakness in his game.

03:34And if he can just continues to give himself chances.

03:37I know he said that over and over towards the end of the year

03:41when he just was knocking on the door, knocking on the door.

03:43Well, guess what?

03:44When you break through, sometimes the floodgates open.

03:46And it seems that for Tommy Fleetwood, a player who's won plenty of times

03:50on the DP World Tour, we know he's capable of winning.

03:53He's done it plenty of times.

03:54Broke through in the PGA Tour, win the Tour Championship,

03:56back in the circle with DP World Tour.

03:58And here we are talking about the potential big three.

04:01I'm not ready to make that jump yet.

04:03Yes, he's a very good player.

04:04I see him playing very well on the very firm golf courses

04:07and tough tracks on the PGA Tour at signature events.

04:11So I continue to see him be a big part of the storyline next year in 2026.

04:16And we'll see if he's able to make that jump at the majors

04:19where he kind of breaks that door down and wins one.

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