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Rickie Fowler Video Ranking: 5 / five

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ROOKIE ON THE RIGHT PATH

The current rage of the PGA tour and the player most experts are backing to be the next big thing on the golf circuit, Rickie Fowler is one of a kind. Dressed in flamboyant outfits which compliment the shaggy hair on his head, he is the hottest property on the tour and, aged only 22, already has a huge fan following everywhere he goes.

Still chasing his first PGA Tour win, it’s his style and technique that leaves everybody impressed. Always dressed in vibrant colors and with a smile on his face, he’s been winning hearts everywhere he goes and has won many admirers both on and off the greens.

Rickie Fowler was named the PGA Tour Rookie of the Year last season after having finished in the top 10 seven times. He also finished runners up in The Phoenix Open and The Memorial. He is also the first Rookie to have made the Ryder Cup team for the United States of America and put in a superb performance including birdies in the last four holes to keep his team’s chances of winning alive right down to the final match.

Rickie Fowler’s first sport was motocross which is evident by his style and persona on the greens of a golf course. He walks with a swagger belying his age though he has the tendency to act the kid every now and then. He was found driving scooters with neighborhood kids during his free time in the recent PGA championships.

Rickie Fowler delights himself by turning Golf’s conventional style on its head, which manifests itself in Rickie Fowler’s club selection on the course, as well as his fashion sense. Dressed in bright and spangly clothes coupled with funky hats and colours, he draws attention by his unique style everywhere he goes.

His influence is seen most vividly among the kids in the tour with most of the teens wearing Fowler styled attires coupled with hats and shoes. When asked, they admit to copying his style and refer to him as their role model on and off the pitch. His fan base includes girls as well and even they are not hesitant to copy his style and his stylish hats.

The number of Rickie Fowler fans seem to go up every tournament and it is being put down to his new style and approach to the game coupled with his undoubted quality with a golf club. Fowler himself admits to relishing the role of a role model and has vowed to prove himself worthy of all the praise.

FOWLER: GOLF’S KOURNIKOVA?

It is customary that when a success story is measured in any professional sport, it measured by the amount of success of the sportsperson, his achievements, his impact of the sport and such other things. But every once in a while there comes in every sport a player who tends to get by more with style rather than substance – the history of sports is full of such instances. Anna Kournikova is perhaps, was the biggest example of these overhyped players. But when there is talk of an overhyped player in the PGA Tour of golf, no other player fits into this category than youngster Rickie Fowler.

Bursting on to the scene of professional golf a few years back, many pundits and golf followers labeled him as the next big thing or the next Tiger Woods. He was chosen as part of the United States team for the Ryder Cup team without a second thought as well. But now, he can be found nowhere near the top of golf’s rankings, not having won a single PGA event.

It would come as a shame to Rickie Fowler when players like Rory McIlroy, who is younger to him is sitting at the top of the OWGR rankings, having already won his share of titles on the PGA Tour as well as a Major title in the form of the US Open in 2011. But the question is, what does Fowler do if he is not making, or missing for that matter, the cut or putting on the greens?

Well, Rickie Fowler keeps himself more than busy for a golfer by shooting television commercials, appearing on the ramps and doing everything but playing golf and still, we expect the United States to produce legendary golfers, one after another when the media hypes a player without him proving himself.

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Rickie Fowler Video Ranking: five / five

IS IT RICKIE’S YEAR?

Each year, all professional golfers think that this is going to be their year and this is the time to show the world what they are made of. But at the end of the season, some tend to be happy and most of them turn disappointed at how they performed in the season. At this point of time, there are several golfers in the PGA circuit who can claim to grab the number one spot of the most overrated player on the PGA Tour.

Englishmen Lee Westwood and Luke Donald are rated high by the commentators quite rightly, even though neither of them has won a major title; though they have been close to win on many occasions. They really deserve to be called overrated at present.

But according to most, the most overrated golfer in the PGA circuit is Rickie Fowler, the American golfer who turned professional in the year 2009. He has not won any tour till now, but the twenty-three year old American golfer won the award for the rookie of the year in 2010. The sole reason why Rickie Fowler is overrated, just because he was a magnificent amateur golfer – in fact, many consider him as one of the best amateur golf players.

Between the years 2007 – 2008, Rickie Fowler was the number one ranked amateur golfer for thirty-six weeks. After that many critics coined him as a future major winner and termed as one of the next prominent American golfers.

When he was an amateur golfer, he played really well at the US Open in 2008 at Torrey Pines. Rickie was in a tie, after the 1st day, for the 7th spot and finished playing all 4 days in the event and eventually ending tied for 60th. But he failed to carry on his impressive form after that. Now all eyes will be on him this year.