Rickie Fowler has put himself ready to win a PGA Tour title once more.
He’s hoping to take benefit for a change.
Fowler birdied six of his final eight holes Saturday to surge into the Rocket Mortgage Classic lead at 20 below, giving him one other probability to finish a four-year PGA Tour victory drought.
“I’m not scared to fail,” stated Fowler, who had an 8-under 64 to take a one-stroke lead over Adam Hdwin at Detroit Golf Club. “I’ve dealt with plenty of that.”
Indeed.
Two weeks in the past in Los Angeles within the U.S. Open, Fowler squandered an opportunity with a closing 75 in a fifth-place tie. And final week on the Travelers Championship, he shot a career-best 60 within the third spherical to contend and closed with a 69 to drop right into a tie for thirteenth.
“Felt really good Sunday last week and just didn’t get anything going, didn’t get anything out of it,” Fowler stated. “Sunday at the U.S. Open, timing got a little off.”
The 34-year-old Fowler has led or shared the 54-hole lead 10 instances on the PGA Tour, and has has transformed the benefit right into a championship simply twice.
Fowler, who has by no means gained a significant, gained the 2019 Phoenix Open for his solely victory in six years. He’s making his 96th begin since his final title, capturing to finish the longest drought of his profession and win for the sixth time on the PGA Tour.
“Whether it happens (Sunday) or not, it’s going to happen here soon,” stated Fowler, who has seven top-10 finishes this season and is No. 17 within the FedEx Cup standings. “I’ve been playing a lot of really good golf and been putting myself in good positions.
“This definitely won’t be the last.”
Hadwin had a season-low 63 to tie the event file.
“One of the hardest things in golf is to get out of your own way when things are going well,” he stated. “I’ve been victim of that.”
Hadwin was the sufferer of mistaken identification a number of weeks in the past when he was tackled by a safety guard on the Canadian Open after fellow Canadian Nick Taylor’s victory.
Hadwin rushed the 18th inexperienced at Oakdale in Toronto whereas spraying celebratory bubbly from a bottle after Taylor beat Tommy Fleetwood. A guard making an attempt to guard Taylor took Hadwin to the bottom and movies of the scene went viral on social media.
“Everybody knows who I am because I’m the guy who got tackled,” he stated.
Taylor Pendrith, who can be Canadian, was third at 18 below after a 67. The massive hitter bogeyed two of his final 4 holes at Detroit Golf Club.
Hadwin is hoping to develop into the fifth participant from Canada to win on the PGA Tour this season.
“I certainly don’t want to be left behind,” he stated. “It’s a pretty fun leaderboard right now with Taylor and I at the top on Canada Day.”
If Hadwin or Pendrith win, it should mark the primary time that five-plus gamers from a rustic outdoors the U.S. gained on the PGA Tour in a season since six Australians gained in the course of the 2013-14 season.
Monday qualifier Peter Kuest (65) and Aaron Rai (68) had been 17 below. Taylor Moore (69) was one other stroke again with 4 different gamers, together with Collin Morikawa, who shot a 67 for the second straight day.
Play was suspended for 1 hour, 42 minutes due to lightning within the space and the schedule for the ultimate spherical was adjusted within the hopes of finishing the ultimate spherical with inclement climate within the forecast.
The leaders will tee off Sunday morning simply earlier than 9 a.m. — about 5 hours earlier than the unique schedule — and threesomes will begin on each the back and front 9.