Tommy Fleetwood becomes Tour Championship winner to claim first PGA Tour title

 Tommy Fleetwood ended an agonizingly long wait for a first PGA Tour title on Sunday, out-dueling Patrick Cantlay down the stretch to win the Tour Championship and pocket the $10 million top prize and FedEx Cup playoffs crown.

England's Fleetwood, a seven-time DP World Tour winner whose 30 prior top-fives on the US circuit included six runner-up finishes, fired a two-under-par 68 for an 18-under-par total of 262 and a three-shot triumph at East Lake in Atlanta, Georgia.

Two weeks after he let a late Sunday l Cantlay and world number five Russell Henley.

"I'm just so happy that I got it done and happy with my work ethic," Fleetwood said. "And I'll continue to try and get better and try and be the best that I can be."

Tied with Cantlay for the lead to start the round, Fleetwood rolled in a 19-foot birdie at the par-three second.

He gave a stroke back at the fifth, where he was in the right rough off the tee, but pushed his lead to three strokes with birdies at the sixth and seventh where he fired out of a fairway bunker to 12 feet.