And to watch him come back was a joy to watch." just because I wanted it for him so bad," Harmon told PGA Tour Radio on SiriusXM on Monday "This one meant more to me personally than a lot of the majors that I won with different guys, just because I know how far down Rickie was. "My anxiety was probably the same level as his was. He made the two longest putts of his season during Rocket week, including a nearly-50-footer for birdie at the par-5 fifth hole Sunday. His wedge game was super-sharp all week, and his putting came up huge, at times, even if it was a little wobbly late Sunday. "He does a great job with players, taking what they have, and ultimately, I think making them the best that they can be with who they are and how they swing, and making what they do well much better and bringing up the weaknesses.įowler didn't have too many weaknesses during the 2023 Rocket, surging to the 54-hole lead, and then coming up clutch with back-to-back birdies to take the title. "Butch is a very - he's the best golf coach out there," Fowler said during his post-round press conference inside the DGC clubhouse Sunday, the RMC trophy sitting to his left. Obviously, those were four pretty good sessions. Harmon is based out of Las Vegas, and Fowler said he thinks he's seen him in person four times in the last 10 months. He turned back to Harmon, 79, whose clients over the years have included the likes of Tiger Woods, Phil Mickelson, Dustin Jackson, Ernie Els, Fred Couples, Greg Norman, Davis Love III, Justin Leonard and Stewart Cink, among others. Our split was really just because he stopped traveling, and then things weren't working the last few years."įowler had been working with John Tillery, but told Sports Illustrated in September that the relationship had run its course, and "it never really clicked." "Butch was nothing new, necessarily, since we worked together for quite a while through the middle part of my career. "I mean, both have been great partnerships," said Fowler, 34.
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It also was the first since he made two big changes in his inner golf circle: He reunited with legendary coach Butch Harmon in September, and also joined up with new caddie Ricky Romano in the fall - after a 2021-22 season in which he had one top-10 finish and nine missed cuts, including the 2022 Rocket Mortgage Classic.īy last September, he was ranked No. The win was Fowler's first since before Maya was born, his first since the Phoenix Open in 2019. There to celebrate with him, just as they've been with him through all the disappointments the last several months, were Stokke and Maya, whom Fowler held amid a mob scene on the 18th green. "So, to kind of have everything start to click and come together, and obviously, all this started prior to Maya being born, it's been an amazing ride."įowler snapped his long PGA Tour championship drought at 1,660 days Sunday afternoon at Detroit Golf Club, where he made a birdie on the last hole of regulation and the first hole of a playoff to beat Collin Morikawa and Adam Hadwin and win the non-major tournament that means the most to him, the Rocket Mortgage Classic. "It was tough, just because everything else in my life was amazing, and then to have the one thing that I obviously love doing - it's not everything to me, but it's a big part of my life - it was kind of the missing link," Fowler said of the state of his golf game. While it had been more than four years since he last won on the PGA Tour, he enjoyed some milestone life moments in between, including the marriage to Allison Stokke in October 2019, and the birth of his daughter, Maya, in November 2021.
View Gallery: Rocket Mortgage Classic, final foundĭetroit - Rickie Fowler does a pretty good job of keeping things in perspective.
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