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Fleetwood saw the funny side of the mistake. Darron Cummings

European Tour apologises after sending €133k in prize money to wrong Tommy Fleetwood

A 58-year-old in America received an unexpected payday.

THE EUROPEAN TOUR has apologised to Tommy Fleetwood after it sent the golfer’s prize money from last month’s Open to an American PGA professional of the same name.

Fleetwood earned €133,000 in prize money after finishing 12th at Carnoustie a fortnight ago but it has since emerged his winnings were sent to the wrong Tommy Fleetwood, a 58-year-old teaching pro based in Florida.

Although the R&A runs the Open, the European Tour controls and sends prize money to players, with the organisation quick to issue an apology to the world number 11th ranked Fleetwood.

“This was a clerical error which we are resolving and we apologise for the inconvenience caused to both parties,” the European Tour said, ahead of this week’s US PGA Championship.

Fleetwood, meanwhile, saw the funny side of the mistake.

“It looks pretty genuine,” he said. “They [the European Tour] are looking into it and I’m sure they’ll feel pretty bad about it. It’s a funny story.

“It’s just something I don’t really look at but I’ll get on top of that.”

 

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    May 19th 2017, 9:13 AM

    there is no such thing as coaching in Tyrone put the whole team on the full back line and wait for the opposition to come (which in ulster dosent happen beacuse they are doing the same) when they do come pull drag and spoil and win by a point the fans in ulster will love it and call it intensity.

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    May 19th 2017, 10:27 AM

    I’m from Leinster and I love ulster football, proper hard hitting and there’s actually a competition

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    May 19th 2017, 10:46 AM

    @Jim Bird: Donegal v Monaghan/Tyrone in the final again this looks like competition it’s not these teams are just better than the rest of the province which are truly shocking in fact Longford dumped Monaghan out of the championship games in Ulster are low scoring slugfests which the gaa are scrambling around trying to counteract because they are killing the game.

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    May 19th 2017, 7:46 AM

    Magic.
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    https://youtu.be/O3G1bwD0ao0

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    May 19th 2017, 8:28 AM

    Ah he should, come on

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