Francesco Molinari and Tommy Fleetwood were a formidable pairing at the Ryder Cup but they are opponents in Surrey this week, standing first and second in the Race to Dubai
It is easy to be the best of friends with a player who is exactly as bad as you, since as PG Wodehouse (handicap 18) put it: “Few things draw two men together more surely than a mutual inability to master golf, coupled with an intense and ever‑increasing love for the game.” But whatever it was that first brought Tommy Fleetwood and Francesco Molinari so close together, it obviously was not that.
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Written by Andy Bull at Walton Heath
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