ABU DHABI HSBC GOLF CHAMPIONSHIP

November 7, 2025

Tommy Fleetwood

Yas Links

Quick Quotes

Q. Your love affair with Abu Dhabi and this championship continues, of 6, tell us about today from your point of view?

TOMMY FLEETWOOD: Really good day. I got off to like the perfect start. Birdie, birdie, birdie. That was good, especially when you've had a good round the day before. They always say it's hard to follow up a good round with another good one, or a low one with another one.

Starting good was really important. I just did a really good job -- I hit a lot of good shots but a few times today where I drove it into the rough and we read the lies really well. I felt like we did a great job of controlling the ball out of the rough, and that was really pleasing. I feel like I putted solid again. 6-under was a very good score.

Q. Do you feel a little bit like on autopilot? You're playing so well at the moment.

TOMMY FLEETWOOD: Not at all. I still think around this golf course, there's plenty of shots that are very testing. I think scores have been very low, as well, and you know that you've got -- if you're going to be up there on Sunday you're going to have to be pretty relentless and keep hitting good shots and keep scoring.

I feel, obviously, good about my game and I'm doing so many things well. But I'm also very aware of what the game can do to you as well. I'll just stay very focused on each day. I'm having a lot of good rounds but I'm not stupid, and it's bitten me enough times. I'll enjoy these good ones but stay focused and continue to do the right things and keep it going as long as possible.

Q. You say some of the golf that you're enjoying at the moment, we are towards the end of a long season, not quite there yet, do you feel this is some of the best golf you've played this season?

TOMMY FLEETWOOD: I think that's where I want to be, as well. My first -- in my first three or four years on tour or when I got to these events, I always found myself being pretty tired at the end of the season and I got to these events -- you can feel disappointed because you don't play how you want to play and you're a little bit tired.

I noticed what the best players were doing, and they were competing till the very end of the year. They were very -- "fresh" might be an overstatement but they were still very motivated. They were doing all the right things. I sort of looked at them and I thought, that's what I want to be doing and those are the players that I want to be like.

Since then, I've always tried to get to the end of the year and feel like I'm doing a lot of good things. I feel like I'm still really motivated. I really want to play well. I still have things that I want to achieve even with six rounds of golf to go into the season, and yeah, like these events, it's so nice to get to the end of the year and being playing well.

I'm two rounds in now this week, and hopefully I can put another good round in tomorrow and compete on Sunday and same goes for next week, as well. Yeah, preparing well, trying to play well, trying to compete all the way up till the very last day of the season, and then we can switch off and take a break after that.