Rickie Fowler Still Seeking Redemption After Second Tiger Test

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Published: March 26, 2013

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It was one very bad shot in one equally huge moment on one large stage. It was also the story of Rickie Fowler’s slower-than-expected rise on the PGA Tour.

Trailing Tiger Woods by two shots during Monday’s final round of the Arnold Palmer Invitational, Fowler sat 179 yards from the par-five 16th green with birdie squarely in his sights and eagle a real possibility. One fat iron later into a lake fronting the green and it was more than Fowler’s ball that was drowning; it was his chance for a breakthrough victory against the player who would ascend to world No. 1 about an hour later.

That Fowler would also submerge his fourth shot to the green en route to a triple bogey and then watch as Woods made birdie to lock up his third victory of the year was just salt into a wound that has stung the popular young player during his first several years on Tour.

Making matters worse, the mishap on the reachable 16th came on the heels of a back-nine run that saw Fowler trim Tiger’s once five-shot lead over him to just two. And with Woods sitting in a fairway bunker to his right, it appeared the one-time Oklahoma State star was poised to keep the pressure on Woods.

Instead, Fowler walked off the 16th green six shots behind Woods and for the second time in less than a year, on the wrong side of a final round showdown with the man in red. Fowler and Woods were paired together in the final round of last year’s Memorial Invitational only to see Tiger dust him on the way to victory.

“Until 16 I was hitting it well,” Fowler said. “I was swinging it well, making a few putts, trying to put a little pressure on them, let them know I was there. Just would like to have that seven-iron back on 16, just kind of touch heavy. And I had a perfect club there, just unfortunate to make that swing at that time.” (www.asapsports.com).



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