Rickie Fowler has ended his four-year-long drought. He has gotten shut the previous few weeks however didn’t recover from the hump till this week on the Rocket Mortgage Traditional.

“You undoubtedly study to understand the great occasions and while you’re taking part in properly,” Fowler stated to the media after his win. “Yeah, you hope the struggles don’t final, however typically they last more than you’ll hope for.”

In his final 4 begins, Fowler completed T13 on the Vacationers, T5 on the U.S. Open, T9 on the Memorial and T6 on the Charles Schwab Problem. This win was one thing coming his manner.

He led the U.S. Open for 3 days, however Fowler imploded Sunday. Fowler struggled to make putts and made expensive bogeys all through the day that took him out of it.

“The final two weekends undoubtedly helped going into at this time. Simply know that I didn’t should be good, simply needed to maintain doing what we’ve been doing,” Fowler stated. “Like I stated, I felt like we did a extremely good job of it apart from probably not changing just a few alternatives there on the again 9.”

Fowler had been so shut. He knew that it might come for him, and it lastly did in Detroit. Fowler led the sector with 28 birdies. He was No. 2 in strokes gained method to the inexperienced and T1 for strokes gained complete.

Fowler needed to birdie the 18th to pressure a 3-man playoff with Collin Morikawa and Adam Hadwin. He then birdied 18 once more within the playoff to seize the victory.

“I knew it wasn’t far off and simply type of needed to maintain placing the time in, maintain grinding, maintain pushing,” Fowler stated.

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