Rickie Fowler finished Saturday at 9 under, four strokes back of the lead at the Phoenix Open.
The thin green ropes of a golf course, though, have a funny way of separating vision from reality. So it was on 14. As fans serenaded Fowler, the man himself buckled to one knee, begging a wayward ball to find its way back to the fairway. So it was on 15, too, where the fans erupted as he leaned to his left watching his drive sail into the desert brush. No matter, the crowd rose again when Fowler went for that par five’s green in two, taking aim at the middle clearing of a V-shaped tree.
Certainly, that was visible Saturday. Fowler’s struggles off the tee were no mirage. He found just six of 14 fairways and, in his words, was “just managing our way around.”On 14, Fowler got himself to the fringe out of the left rough, setting up a two-putt par. On 15, he stuck a pitch to four feet from the drop zone. Crisis averted: par. After finding water off the tee with a pull hook on 17, he drained a tricky 13-footer for another par save.
For four years, these moments have been desperately lacking. Golf has missed them. And Fowler has missed them. Fowler denied the notion that his struggles change anything, fundamentally, about the experience of being in contention. The joy of walking off 18 just four strokes back with Sunday of a meaningful tournament looming is still joy, same as it ever was.
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