Tommy Fleetwood and his wife Clare tied the knot in 2017 after she knocked him back initially with just three words
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Tommy Fleetwood and Clare Fleetwood
Tommy Fleetwood has been married to his wife Clare since 2017
Tommy Fleetwood was hit with a harsh three-word response from his now-wife Clare when he first asked her out – due to their 23-year age gap. Tommy and his partner Clare first met in 2015 when she initially approached him to be his agent – but told the golfer ‘Don’t be stupid’ when he asked her on a date.
Clare, 56, stated that she turned Tommy, 33, down the first few times and cited that there was a huge age gap between them as the reason.
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The Sun reports that Clare said: “We’ve got a 23-year age difference. Of course, I turned him down. I was like, ‘Don’t be stupid’.”
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However, Tommy didn’t give up and the pair began dating after Clare “eventually gave in” – and she continued to represent him as part of the professional athlete’s management.
The pair tied the knot in 2017, with Tommy becoming the stepfather to Clare’s children, 17-year-old Oscar and 16-year-old Mo – and the couple also have a six-year-old son together, called Frankie.
The world number 13 has claimed that the age difference in his family has often raised eyebrows but that the couple and his three kids are a really tight-knit group.
Tommy and his wife Clare worked together to begin with (Image: Getty)
Speaking on Barstool Sports’ podcast, Fore Play, Tommy said: “The whole family – we’re unbelievably close. There’s Oscar and Mo and they are the two older ones and then there’s Frankie.
“And, you know, honestly, it’s funny because whenever anybody asks, so people that don’t know you they’ll always say, ‘Do you have kids?’ And, pretty much all the time I’ll say ‘yeah, I have three kids’ and they’ll go, ‘How old are they?’ And I’ll say ’17, 16 and six’. And then you get the look.
“So then, I’m like, well I’m not that old, so then I’ll have to explain that the first two are step-kids which, honestly, I don’t really, I never really think of them as step-kids. I’ve been a
round them a long time now.
