Why Rickie Fowler Will Win a Major Championship in 2012

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Published: May 18, 2012

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This is what we know: The monkey that had been stubbornly sitting on top of Rickie Fowler's shoulders for the past three years is gone. His playoff victory over Rory McIlroy and D.A. Points at the Wells Fargo Championship a couple weeks ago gave him his first-ever PGA Tour win.

It was a victory I saw coming when I made my bold predictions for the 2012 PGA Tour season back in January.

But now I have a new prediction: Fowler's triumph will open the floodgates for his future success, including a major championship title in 2012.

There's really no telling how far this talented and very popular young player can go from here. But I'm guessing there are a lot more wins where the first one came from.

Fowler's debut victory was a moment he had been waiting for a long time—if you consider three years a long time. It's a moment a lot of people had been anticipating.

But the knock on Fowler was that he was overrated. Sure the kid had skills. After all, he had collected 19 top 10 PGA Tour finishes prior to his debut win at the Wells Fargo, including five in second place. And a win on the OneAsia Tour. But did he have the game to match the heavy hype, to finish ahead of the best players in the world?

The answer is now obviously yes.

Fowler followed his victory at Quail Hollow Club with a T2 finish at the difficult and prestigious Players Championship at TPC Sawgrass last week. The 2010 PGA Tour Rookie of the Year is currently playing the best golf of his career and I believe the next logical step is a major championship victory—soon—while the gettin's good.

I always felt that Fowler was not so much overrated as he was streaky. And I don't expect that to completely disappear now that he's a PGA Tour champion. Fowler's scorecards have oftentimes been infamously erratic—running hot or cold with little time spent in between.

The same has been true of hi...
Article Source: Bleacher Report - Golf

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