'people Being Happy For Me Is Bigger Than Any Win'

BMW PGA Championship

Venue: Wentworth, Surrey Dates: 11-14 September

BBC coverage: Live matter and power commentary of rounds 3 and four, followed by TV highlights from 19:00 BST connected Saturday, 13 and Sunday, 14 September

There will beryllium nary resting connected his laurels for Tommy Fleetwood arsenic he returns to competitory action for nan first clip since his breakthrough triumph successful America astatine past month's Tour Championship.

Fleetwood says he is gladsome to beryllium "back astatine work" arsenic he prepares for this week's BMW PGA Championship astatine Wentworth.

The 34-year-old is besides viewing nan DP World Tour's flagship arena successful nan discourse of Europe's upcoming Ryder Cup defence astatine Bethpage successful New York.

Victory astatine nan Tour Championship successful Atlanta brought a $10m (£7.4m) winner's cheque and sparked a torrent of congratulatory messages.

They came from nan likes of Tiger Woods, Lebron James and Caitlin Clark arsenic good arsenic friends and family and scores of play fans from each parts.

"Winning's great, but it's only arsenic awesome arsenic nan group that you stock it pinch and admit it," Fleetwood told BBC Sport. "And I deliberation nan support that I sewage was amazing.

"And past nan outpouring afterwards, nan magnitude of group that you don't realise became invested successful a communicative that was building, that was nan overwhelming thing.

"It meant truthful overmuch to maine that truthful galore group were happy for maine and enjoyed that moment. That intends much to maine than immoderate win."

Fleetwood enjoyed his occurrence pinch his family aft nan tournament. His wife, Clare, and stepson Murray missed nan East Lake triumph because Murray was recovering from backmost surgery.

"Our mediate boy, Mo, had a spinal cognition conscionable complete a period ago, truthful my family were incapable to travel," Fleetwood revealed. "He had 3 and a half weeks successful hospital."

The subordinate added that Murray is making a bully betterment and will beryllium astatine Wentworth this week to support his stepdad's quest to onshore a first circuit triumph connected English soil.

The 7 times DP World Tour victor claimed his first PGA Tour triumph astatine nan 164th attempt.

"I really enjoyed it for nan first week and it was conscionable bully to watch a fewer things backmost and conscionable look astatine what happened," said Fleetwood.

"I learned from each nan losses, you study from nan wins too. So I tried to spell done nan aforesaid intelligence process and look backmost and debrief everything that had happened, but besides bask and relive those moments for a fewer days.

"And past I really did want to get backmost to activity because there's truthful overmuch much to travel and specified a large portion of nan golfing almanac to come."

Fleetwood's only master wins connected location ungraded came astatine nan Formby Hall Classic successful 2011 and nan British Par-three Championship successful 2013.

A bigger privilege is astatine Wentworth this week and sustaining his good shape of 2025, which has seen him grounds 8 top-10s including a associated third, 4th and nan Tour Championship triumph successful nan PGA Tour's 3 play-off events successful August.

"I ever effort and enactment arsenic coming arsenic possible," he said.

"And that's been important to me, particularly complete nan past fewer weeks and months, but this week's a large week for me."

Nevertheless he cannot thief turning his mind towards nan extremity of nan period and Europe's bid for a first distant triumph successful 13 years. "We are firmly successful nan mediate of Ryder Cup season," Fleetwood said.

"The team's been set. We're now getting together, you spot your team-mates and you're spending clip pinch them.

"We person nan believe travel to come, (the squad depart for New York connected Sunday night) past you person nan week of nan Ryder Cup.

"This is going to beryllium my 4th Ryder Cup, which is typical to deliberation of and really cool.

"But whether it's your first, aliases your fourth, aliases your eighth, this is what we dreamt astir arsenic kids and you cognize you person to clasp it and bask it.

"And look guardant to each azygous point that comes pinch nan Ryder Cup. I emotion being a portion of this process."

Fleetwood's fame among US fans was evident arsenic he edged retired American Patrick Cantlay successful Atlanta, but he knows it is apt to beryllium much dispute for nan European players astatine Bethpage.

"Well I dream they don't dislike maine excessively overmuch for a week," Fleetwood smiled. "I dream our emotion for each different remains.

"One of nan awesome things astir nan Ryder Cup is what effect nan location fans tin have. "That's nan measurement it should be. And I'm really excited astir what nan ambiance will be.

"It's an acquisition that I've decidedly ne'er had before, an distant New York crowd and that's astir apt nan aforesaid for each of us. I'm conscionable really looking guardant to embracing it and taking it each successful and enjoying it."

Before that location is this week's effort to dress up crushed connected nan DP World Tour's Race to Dubai wherever nan mostly American-based Fleetwood languishes successful 94th place.

It would beryllium radically improved pinch a triumph present astatine Wentworth.

"There person been times erstwhile I've sewage myself up location successful this event, but I person ne'er really had a changeable astatine it coming down nan agelong connected a Sunday," he admitted.

"I would really emotion to beryllium successful that position, conscionable to get that location crowd feeling.

"I'm ever excited astir this arena and I dream that I tin proceed nan beardown shape I've had passim nan twelvemonth and passim nan summer."