TOMMY'S OPEN GOAL

Fleetwood crack at ending 32 years of English hurt

- CHRIS MCKENNA

IF ever there was a time English sport needed a lift then it is now.

Tommy Fleetwood is hoping he can provide that one week on from this country’s Euros heartache.

It’s 58 years of hurt for the Three Lions football team but golf is catching up with 32 years of pain at The Open.

You have to go back to 1992 when Nick Faldo lifted the Claret Jug for when an Englishman was last crowned Champion Golfer of the Year.

Fleetwood, 33, will again be the favourite to end the barren spell.

A week on from Spain beating Gareth Southgate’s Three Lions in Berlin, it would prove to be quite the sporting tonic for a nation a bit down in the dumps.

World No.12 Fleetwood was asked if he would love to bring a smile back to the faces of sports fans on these shores and he said: “Well both individually and for the country, I guess. I love this tournament so much.