DORAL, Fla. — Other than the walk from the second green to the fifth tee, it’s been a brilliantly smooth tournament for Rickie Fowler at the Trump National Doral.
Who wouldn’t take 14 birdies and just two bogeys for three days of the WGC Cadillac Championship?
Cute stuff, perhaps, but Fowler knows he’s got to take the bad with the good, so the real estate in question — the par-4 third and par-3 fourth — is what it is. The difference between being near the top and sitting eight off the lead.
One day after rinsing one ball at the dogleg right third and one more at the long, difficult fourth for a pair of doubles, Fowler found the water twice at the third and made a quad.