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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Sport
Carl Markham

Tommy Fleetwood bags hole-in-one but loses out on Masters focus to son Frankie

Tommy Fleetwood played Augusta’s Par-Three competition with son Frankie (Eric Gay/AP) -

Tommy Fleetwood carded one of four holes in one in the Masters Par-Three competition but it was his eight-year-old son Frankie’s personal challenge to clear the water at the last which captured patrons’ imagination.

Fleetwood senior, playing with Ryder Cup team-mates Rory McIlroy and Shane Lowry, aced the fourth, saying afterwards: “I hadn’t hit a green until that hole so I would have been the last to be predicted for a hole in one.”

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