NORTON, Mass. –– Back in May, he was dragged into a conversation that was a bit unsettling to him, though he handled it brilliantly.
This week, he wasn’t part of a conversation that would have been flattering to him, though he handled it flawlessly.
Each time, the answer was the same.
Rickie Fowler won. With flair. With confidence. With dignity.
What sits at the forefront of our minds is Monday’s heroics, chasing down one of the world’s greatest ball-strikers, Henrik Stenson, with a back-side 33 to win the Deutsche Bank Championship at TPC Boston. One behind at the start, two down at the turn, Fowler was utterly brilliant in the clutch and seized upon Stenson’s crucial mistake, a 7-iron that came up short and into a hazard at the par-3 16th.