{"id":289721,"date":"2023-10-02T21:16:43","date_gmt":"2023-10-02T21:16:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportsloveme.com\/?p=289721"},"modified":"2023-10-02T21:16:43","modified_gmt":"2023-10-02T21:16:43","slug":"pep-guardiola-congratulates-tommy-fleetwood-after-ryder-cup-triumph","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportsloveme.com\/golf\/pep-guardiola-congratulates-tommy-fleetwood-after-ryder-cup-triumph\/","title":{"rendered":"Pep Guardiola congratulates Tommy Fleetwood after Ryder Cup triumph"},"content":{"rendered":"
Man City boss Pep Guardiola\u00a0 has offered his congratulations to ‘incredible guy’ Tommy Fleetwood for his role in Europe’s Ryder Cup success on Sunday.<\/p>\n
The home side won 16-5-11.5\u00a0after producing a dominant opening set of singles performances on Sunday, with Fleetwood securing the Cup-winning point in his match against Rickie Fowler.<\/p>\n
Europe’s win came after their harrowing Whistling Straits defeat two-years ago, as they thrashed an American team who constantly found themselves trying to regain ground throughout the competition.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Guardiola was full of praise for the Brit, as he said in a post on X: ‘You deserve this Ryder Cup more than anyone else.<\/span><\/p>\n ‘You are an incredible guy and as everyone knows an exceptional golfer. Love you. Congratulations Europe to get the back.’<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Tommy Fleetwood’s win over Rickie Fowler on Sunday secured Europe’s Ryder Cup victory<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Man City boss Pep Guardiola congratulated the Brit and told him he ”deserves this more than anyone else’<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Fleetwood and Guardiola are believed to be friends and played a pro-am event together in 2018<\/p>\n The pair are believed to be friends, and played alongside one another in a pro-am competition back in 2018.<\/p>\n \u00a0Man City owner Sheikh Mansour also commented on the Ryder Cup success, saying in response to Guardiola: ‘Pep being an avid golfer is one of my favorite things about him. Golfers def have a certain kindred spirit among them.<\/p>\n ‘Also has to be pretty cool to win the Ryder Cup and have Pep Guardiola tweeting that he loves you.’<\/p>\n \u00a0Fleetwood was visibly emotional after securing Europe’s win against, as he celebrated with the crowd after Fowler conceded following a tricky missed putt.<\/p>\n Speaking after the win, he told Sky Sports: ‘I’m just so happy to be a part in it, it was a bit bigger than I thought I was going to have when we saw the draw, but I’m just so proud of being a part of this team.<\/p>\n ‘We’ve done what we came here to do. We have an amazing group of people, we always do. This year’s obviously been different, the landscape has changed a little bit for team Europe, I couldn’t wish for a better group of people to do this with.<\/p>\n ‘It’s been so amazing an everyone is so great. We are just one gigantic family. Relief, pride joy, I’m just proud to be one of the people that gets to play a role in what we came here to do.’<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Fleetwood was visibly emotional after the win and described his team as ‘one gigantic family’<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Man City owner Sheikh Mansour also commented on the Ryder Cup and described Guardiola as ‘an avid gofler’<\/p>\n