Oh, Rickie! Missed cut for Fowler after mistake even club players rarely make
You would be upset if you, a hacker, did this while playing with mates. Rickie Fowler just did it in a major championship
Rickie Fowler will get over the line at a major championship. He’s just too good not to. And we’ll keep telling ourselves that over and over until he either does it or retires. See also: Donald, Luke; Montgomerie, Colin; Westwood, Lee.
But he won’t be doing it at the PGA Championship after the Californian made the most inexplicable mistake.
Fowler, who opened with a 3-over 73, was going along quite nicely in the second round and was 4-under, 1-under for the tournament, through 15.
Then on the par-4 6th, his 15th hole of the day having started on the 10th, he missed an eight-foot par putt.
Then this happened…
The whiff resulted in a double-bogey 6 and proved decisive for Fowler’s participation in the rest of the tournament as he missed the cut by, you guessed it, a single shot.
Still, nice to know they’re human every now and then, isn’t it?
A weekend of fishing it is.
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Alex Perry
Alex has been the editor of National Club Golfer since 2017. A Devonian who enjoys wittering on about his south west roots, Alex moved north to join NCG after more than a decade in London, the last five of which were with ESPN. Away from golf, Alex follows Torquay United and spends too much time playing his PlayStation or his guitar and not enough time practising his short game.
