Tommy Fleetwood decided not to move to LIV Golf with the Ryder Cup hero remaining on the DP World Tour
Tommy Fleetwood’s wife’s call to snub a move to LIV Golf has been vindicated after the breakaway league’s huge losses emerged last week. Fleetwood continued his superb 2025, winning an eighth DP World Tour title after victory in India fresh off the back of his heroics at the Ryder Cup for Team Europe.
An impressive final day saw the Southport-born golfer surge to the top of the leaderboard ahead of Keita Nakajima. The 34-year-old’s two-shot win saw him earn the top prize of $680,000 (£506,882), not long after LIV golf’s massive losses became clear.
As a result, Fleetwood is now closing in on a seasonal tally of $20million with his current earnings standing at $18,496,239 (£13m), blowing out of the water his previous best in 2023, where he earned $5m (£3m).
This year, he won his first major after winning the FedEx Cup in Atlanta, until then he held an unwanted-record for having 30 top-five finishes without a win, something that hadn’t been matched since 1983.
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The triumph in the inaugural DP World India Championship is the latest bookmark in a phenomenal campaign for Fleetwood. His exploits over the weekend further reiterated the decision to turn down LIVGolf orchestrated by the Everton fan’s wife, Clare, who is 23 years older than the champion golfer.
The decision is proving to be a good one with a report in the Daily Mail last week highlighting the eye-watering losses that the breakaway golf league has endured.
The accounts displayed record revenues for 2024 with £64.9m but still recorded a deficit of nearly £462m.
Fleetwood has turned down three propsoals to join LIV Golf, where some of his Ryder Cup teammates and opponents have earned astonishing figures, and in 2023 he said: “Most people – most sportsmen really, don’t actually do it for the money. I never really played for the money. I can look at what I’ve earned at any given time on any week.
“But really it’s much more about myself, satisfaction and how I perform, can I win the tournaments? That (money) didn’t come into the equation for me but definitely for some people, and you can see how appealing it is. For sure, there’s a lot to be said.
“Play poorly and I’ll get paid, that would be great. But I also think that’s where for me, I would turn to Clare – and we did at the time, that’s the kind of thing you talk about, because it’s not just you that’s involved in it.
“It’s my passion obviously, but you have a family as well and there’s a lot more decisions that go into it. But ultimately, Clare always says to me ‘it’s what makes you happy and it’s what you feel is best for you’. That was pretty much it wasn’t it? You said ‘will it actually make any difference, is it going to change your life?’
“And it doesn’t really. Everything that I do is to play as well as I can and get the most out of myself as a golfer, as a sportsman and as an athlete.
“And that’s all I’ve ever thought about. Whether that’s playing where I am now or playing somewhere else, I would make a decision based on that and not on the money.”