Open Championship: Rickie Fowler’s recent performance qualifies him

Rickie Fowler has certified for the Open Championship and can play at Royal Liverpool in July. His spectacular 67 on Sunday on the Charles Schwab Problem pushed Fowler into the highest 50 of the Official World Golf Rating for the primary time in two years.

The Prime 50 qualify to play within the Open Championship. This season Fowler has 5 prime 10’s, 11 prime 25’s and has made 14-of-16 cuts. He hasn’t completed exterior the highest 20, exterior his missed lower on the PGA Championship, because the Arnold Palmer Invitational when he completed T31.

Fowler has gained $4 million this season and now sits at No. 46 on the planet. He needed to have a powerful spherical in Fort Value, and his sport is coming collectively on the proper time. That last spherical 67 shot him 19 spots up the leaderboard, and he completed T6.

He has been preventing to get again up the World Golf Rankings for the final 5 years, and this season Fowler’s sport has made a flip for the higher. Through the earlier three seasons, he had 4 prime 10’s in 50 begins, so he’s already doing higher this 12 months. The final time Fowler gained on tour was in 2018, when he gained the Waste Administration Phoenix Open.

Fowler will play in three of the 4 majors this 12 months, lacking the Masters in April as a result of he wasn’t contained in the Prime 50. The final time he performed in all 4 majors was in 2021.

This week, he’s within the subject on the Memorial Match at Muirfield Village Golf Membership in Dublin, Ohio. Fowler will play with Si Woo Kim and Sam Burns within the occasion’s first two rounds.