Rickie Fowler Adds Killer Instinct to Impressive Skill Set in Epic Players Win

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Published: May 11, 2015

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It was the stuff hyperbolic dreams are made of.

As Sergio Garcia crossed from the front to the back nine with a two-shot lead at The Players Championship on Sunday afternoon, the NBC announce crew was already preparing its anecdotal redemption package.

Hosts Dan Hicks and Johnny Miller recalled the 35-year-old Spaniard’s history of high-profile disappointments—including a soggy 17th-hole implosion at TPC Sawgrass two years ago—while dropping in affirmations that perhaps this was the moment at which competitive tides would turn.

At that point, not even the most prescient producer could have imagined what was next.

And based on what had happened, there was no reason that anyone might have.



Given that Rickie Fowler was just six shots under par—and four shots off Garcia’s lead—with six holes remaining in a forgettable round, it was shaping up to be no more than the latest in a series of 2015 appearances in which the wildly popular Californian had managed little more than also-ran status.

He’d tied for ninth at the World Golf Championships last week in San Francisco and tied for 12th at both the Masters and the WGC-Cadillac Championship but had otherwise been standings-irrelevant with a finish in the 20s, two each in the 40s and 60s and another in the 70s alongside one missed cut.

The inglorious springtime followed up a maddeningly consistent but ultimately fruitless 2014 run, in which he joined Tiger Woods and Jack Nicklaus as the only players to finish in the top five of all four major tournaments in a year—but he did so while not adding a single trophy to a career total of one.

Toss in a Sports Illustrated poll in which he was deemed the PGA Tour’s co-most overrated player by 24 percent of his contemporaries, and it looked likely he’d provide further ammunition for those—like the New...
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