Tommy Fleetwood recently started in a hilarious video along with the social media influencer Hannah Aslesen, who is also part of the St. André Golf team. In this video, the British golfer trolled his Ryder Cup skipper, Luke Donald, and jokingly tried to create drama.
Fleetwood shared this video on his X account (formerly Twitter), revealed this was influencer training, and apologized to Donald.
"Influencer training…sorry captain @LukeDonald!!"
In the video, Aslesen advised Fleetwood to take up fights as everyone loves seeing drama and gave a few examples like Tiger vs Phil, Bryson vs Brooks, and Bryson vs Rope. However, Fleetwood said he doesn't have any enemies as everyone loves him. Aslesen looked ahead and saw Luke Donald walking in with a coffee cup and said, "for now".
The 33-year-old British golfer then walked with an intimidating look on his face, smashed the coffee cup from Donald's hand, and cussed him. The European Ryder Cup captain looked confused and did not know how to react.
Tommy Fleetwood on his goals of qualifying for the Ryder Cup
Tommy Fleetwood is currently competing in the 2025 Hero Dubai Desert Classic. During the pre-round press conference, he talked about his goal of qualifying for the Ryder Cup through automatic qualification and not relying on the captain's picks.
"Yeah, I think it's always a goal to qualify for the Ryder Cup. That was my goal in the last one, which I didn't manage to do," Fleetwood said.
The top six players in the Ryder Cup rankings will qualify directly, and the skipper picks the remaining six golfers as the captain's picks. Fleetwood was one of the captain's picks in the last Ryder Cup in 2023, but the British golfer wishes to qualify for this year's edition directly.
"But you want to qualify for the Ryder Cup, and not rely on a captain's pick, of course, and Luke, you know, I was very grateful that Luke showed his faith in me in the last one and made me one of the six picks. It gets harder and harder, really, to qualify."
He also said he would love to be in Team Europe in any kind of form.
"Yeah, I would love to be there in any kind of form. I hope that I'm playing and I hope that I'll be one of the guys that qualify," Fleetwood said.
Tommy Fleetwood is currently ranked 16th in the European Team standings for the Ryder Cup. He has 268.73 points and needs to be consistent with his performance in the upcoming events if he wishes to break into the top six who will qualify for the 2025 Ryder Cup at Bethpage directly.