Local hero Tommy Fleetwood treads familiar ground at Royal Birkdale

Born and bred in Southport, the golfer used to have to sneak on the course’s hallowed turf as a kid, but now ‘Tommy Lad’ is very much in the limelight There were three ways to get to play Royal Birkdale when Tommy Fleetwood was a kid growing up in Southport. One was to stump up hundreds in visitors’ green fees, another