Fowler started quickly at the Trist Championship at Philadelphia Cricket Club not much after its inclusion in the PGA championship next week
Rickie Fowler may not be the world class player he was once, but he is demonstrating why he is still a needle in the golf world and a possible weekly contestant and week with his starting start to the Trush championship.
The 36 -year -old has not been at its best in recent years. Enter this weekend at 125th place in the world ranking. In 2024, he had an end of the first 10 places in 26 events played. His last victory, a playoff victory in 2023 Rocket Mortgage Classic, was his first since 2019.
Fowler’s bad form was outside looking for the important championship season. His low classification and his lack of wins meant that he did not qualify for the Teachers to the Augusta National Golf Club last month, A snatch that admitted that he left him “P —— Off”.
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But being Rickie Fowler still has its advantages, as the world 4 world player in the world received a special invitation to the PGA championship next week.
While some online golf trolls described the decisions as “laugh”, Fowler, who recently said It has no regrets to stay at PGA Tour instead of doing with the Gulf of Livshowed the good that it can be at the beginning of the last event before next week in Quail Hollow.
Fowler started starting the early Thursday of the Trista Championship, held this year in the Philadelphia The Wissahickon course of the Cricket Club. He occupied six of the first seven holes in his opening round, throwing it at the top of the classification table.
Fowler then stopped his next seven before Birdie at the age of 15, being among the leaders with a marker -7, as he turns his way through nine.
The news of Fowler’s inclusion next week in Charlotte surprised many but Fowler said Mirror you sports I knew I would be in the countryside for some time.
“This really happened a while ago, so it wasn’t something I had to wait,” said Fowler. “So yes, that was nice to record -and you know, it was in our program.”
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Fowler has played in the PGA championship every year since 2010.
Its best end came in 2014, when it was tied by third to -14 next to Henrik Stenson, two champion shots Rory mcilroy And one behind the first place Phil Mickelson in Valhalla in Louisville, Kentucky.
The PGA returned to Valhalla last year, but Fowler finished T63.
His last 10 Top 10 at the PGA championship arrived in 2021, when T8 finished with a -1 in the ocean field on Kiawah Island in South Carolina, five times behind the Mickelson champion.
Fowler has not yet gained a greater in his career. He finished second or T2 three times, more recently in the 2018 Masters, where he was a shot behind the winner Patrick Reed.