Rickie Fowler

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Rickie Fowler
Rickie Fowler
Personnel
Date of birth December 13, 1988
place of birth Murrieta , California
size 1.75 m
Weight 68 kg
nationality United StatesUnited States United States
place of residence Jupiter , Florida
college Oklahoma State University
Career
Professional since 2009
current tour PGA tour

Rickie Fowler (Rick Yutaka Fowler; born December 13, 1988 in Murrieta , California ) is an American professional golfer .

Life

Fowler was born to Lynn and Rod Fowler and has a younger sister named Taylor. His mother is half-Japanese, half- Diné . In his childhood, in addition to playing golf, he pursued the hobby of motocross driving, but he quit after breaking his foot three times in an accident at the age of 14. From then on, Fowler decided to concentrate completely on golf.

Amateur career

Rickie Fowler began his successful amateur career in 2005 at the Western Junior, the oldest junior golf tournament in the USA, where he took first place with 272 strokes, ahead of David Yujin Chung (273).

He had further successes in 2007 at the Sunnehanna Amateur Tournament and the Players Amateur Championships.

At the US Open 2008 he made the cut as one of three amateurs and reached the shared 60th place. In the same year he was able to defend the title at the Sunnehanna Amateur Tournament.

In 2009 he was appointed to the team for the Walker Cup for the second time . Fowler won all four games in which he was used.

Professional career

After the Walker Cup, Fowler decided to pursue a career as a professional golfer. He played his first professional tournament in September 2009 at the Albertons Boise Open on the Nationwide Tour . In the same month he signed long-term advertising contracts for the equipment companies Titleist and Puma .

He made his debut on the PGA TOUR in October 2009 at the Justin Timberlake Shriners Hospitals for Children Open, where he finished seventh in the top 10. A week later at the Frys.com Open he just missed his first tournament win , he lost to Troy Matteson in the jump-off and ended up tied for second place.

In December 2009, with a shared 15th place at the Q-School qualification tournament, he won a PGA Tour Card 2010, which means that he has the right to start almost all major golf tournaments of the PGA TOUR .

Other top placements came at the Farmers Insurance Open (January 2010, shared fifth place), the Waste Management Phoenix Open (February 2010, second place), the Verizon Heritage (April 2010, shared eighth place), the Quail Hollow Championship (May 2010, sixth place), the Memorial Tournament (June 2010, second place) and the Frys.com Open (October 2010, fourth place). At the end of the 2010 season, Fowler was named Rookie of the Year by the PGA Tour .

On September 7, 2010, Captain Corey Pavin gave him one of four wildcards for the US team for the 2010 Ryder Cup . In three matches he won a point for the US team.

In October 2011, Fowler won his first professional golfer win at the Kolon Korea Open, a tournament on the OneAsia Tour. In May 2012, Rickie Fowler won a tournament on the PGA Tour for the first time in his career. He won the Wells Fargo Championship by beating Rory McIlroy and DA Points in the jump-off . He achieved the greatest success of his career to date when he won The PLAYERS Championship in 2015, where he again prevailed in the jump-off. This time against Sergio García and Kevin Kisner.

Professional victories (8)

PGA Tour (5)

No. date competition head Start Runner-up
1. May 6, 2012 Wells Fargo Championship Playoff Northern IrelandNorthern Ireland Rory McIlroy , DA PointsUnited StatesUnited States
2. May 10, 2015 The PLAYERS Championship Playoff United StatesUnited States Kevin Kisner , Sergio GarcíaSpainSpain
3. September 7, 2015 Deutsche Bank Championship 1 hit SwedenSweden Henrik Stenson
4th February 26, 2017 The Honda Classic 4 strokes United StatesUnited States Morgan Hoffmann , Gary WoodlandUnited StatesUnited States
5. 3rd February 2019 Phoenix Open 2 strokes South AfricaSouth Africa Brendan Grace

OneAsia Tour (1)

No. date competition head Start Runner-up
1. October 9, 2011 Colon Korea Open 6 strokes Northern IrelandNorthern Ireland Rory McIlroy

European Tour (2)

No. date competition head Start Runner-up
1. July 12, 2015 Aberdeen Asset Management Scottish Open 1 hit United StatesUnited States Matt Kuchar , Raphaël JacquelinFranceFrance
2. January 24, 2016 Abu Dhabi HSBC Golf Championship 1 hit BelgiumBelgium Thomas Pieters

Other tournament victories (1)

  • 2017 Hero World Challenge

Results at major championships

Tournament 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019
Masters DNP DNP DNP T38 T27 T38 T5 T12 CUT T11 2 T9
PGA Championship DNP DNP T58 T51 CUT T19 T3 T30 T33 T5 T12 T36
US Open T60 CUT DNP CUT T41 T10 T2 CUT CUT T5 T20 T43
Open Championship DNP DNP T14 T5 T31 CUT T2 T30 T46 T22 T28 T6

DNP = not participated
CUT = Cut not made
"T" split placement
Green background for victories
Yellow background for top 10

Participation in team competitions

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Profile on Yahoo! Sports (English)
  2. ↑ a b c Profile of Rickie Fowler on PGATour.com (English)
  3. ↑ Oliver Brown America's poster boy Fowler sparkles on debut to prove Pavin's instincts right Irish Independent October 5, 2010
  4. ↑ Archived copy ( memento of the original dated September 23, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.thegolfchannel.com
  5. ↑ http://www.westernjunior.com/
  6. ↑ http://www.titleist.com/news/newsdetail.asp?id=733&category=equipment&subcategory=  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.titleist.com  
  7. ↑ Archive link ( Memento of the original from January 13, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / golf.puma.com
  8. ↑ Archive link ( Memento of the original from April 1, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.pgatour.com
  9. ↑ Archive link ( Memento of the original from December 8, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.pgatour.com

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personal data
SURNAME Fowler, Rickie
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Fowler, Rick Yutaka
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American golfer
DATE OF BIRTH December 13, 1988
PLACE OF BIRTH Murrieta , California