Quotes from Tommy Fleetwood

You don't know where your career is going to take you. It might all go wrong and I might never play in a Masters again. So it's important to keep things real.

This is my third year in a row where I'm one of those players that has a chance to win the Race to Dubai. I just think it's important this year that I take the experiences of 2017 and 2018 into it and know that it still takes a lot to do it and it's not in my hands at all.

You never really get a chance to sit back and look at where you are or what you've done. If you stop working, you're gonna get overtaken quickly. You can't really take your foot off the gas - until you decide to pack it in.

No matter what's going on, on the leaderboard, you have to know that par is a very, very good score and just keep playing.

Par is your friend out there. Doesn't matter what holes they are.

I think the winning scores are always pretty much the same but it's a very big deal to sort of prove yourself against some of the world's best.

It's hard if you don't quite feel on your game to go out and put scores on the board.

When I started playing well all I wanted to do was win. Which was a problem. When it became clear I wasn't going to win, I would get fed up. I played poorly on a few Sundays, finishing 50th because I wasn't interested in finishing 30th. But I've learned not to do that.

Clare makes life so easy for me. From a business perspective, to being my wife, to being my friend. It allows me to go out and just play golf and work on a daily basis. I consider myself very, very lucky. She's the person I trust the most and when it comes to business, that is extremely important.

I have plenty of improving to do.

It's so easy to just give up or get angry with the course or the conditions, but you can't do that.

I shaved my head once and learned that I've got, like, a cone head. So I'm never gonna do that again.

It's nice to have a few moments at night to help me switch off.

Going into my first Ryder Cup, my big fear was that I would contribute nothing to the team and that we'd lose.

If I'm going to be away from my family then I want to make the practice count more.

Golf has been the sport of the social elite, with lawyers and doctors. But I have never been embarrassed by the looks I've been given by others. I have sometimes been looked at with condescension and it still happens now, but I know how to deal with it - I know whose opinions count.

To be on the winning team on your debut is amazing enough anyway but to do so alongside one of your best mates is the stuff of dreams.

Every round I have three little targets. Maybe it is just 'talk to myself properly' or 'stand up straight on the greens.' One day I might say, 'Don't talk to anyone.' On another I'll be a lot chattier. Or I might say, 'smile all the way round.' Little things. But little things turn into bigger things.

It is not a cliche to say golf is for the well-off. It is the reality. But the old system which used to make it elite is fading away.

Every time you tee off as a professional golfer, whether people say it or not, your first prerogative is to make the cut. You can't win if you don't make the cut.

Two birdies and a lot of bogeys doesn't really help. I say if you're going to do it, do it properly and be dreadful on all fronts.

I have the confidence knowing if the game is on I can win the big events. That's a massive difference. Until you've done it and proven it to yourself, you can't know if you can.

Seriously, as a father, I want golf to be cool for my children. Easy to access. If they want to play in tracksuits and trainers, why not?

I was a big kid who could putt well.