Rickie Fowler plays his best golf when the pressure is highest, thriving when the spotlight is directly on him in the heat of battle.
The preceding proclamation probably sounds like a cheap cliché. Or even worse, the kind of thing a writer writes when he doesn't have anything else.
So I understand your skepticism. It's like saying an athlete is "competitive" or "loves to win" -- which is pretty much an apt description for, well, everybody.
Except in this case, it's the truth.
With his victory Sunday at the Abu Dhabi HSBC Golf Championship, Fowler now owns four worldwide titles in the past nine months, each of which concluded with him proving this truth in grand fashion.