DETROIT — Rickie Fowler has put himself ready to win a PGA Tour title once more.
He is hoping to take benefit for a change.
Fowler birdied six of his final eight holes Saturday to surge into the Rocket Mortgage Basic lead at 20 beneath, giving him one other probability to finish a four-year PGA Tour victory drought.
“I am not scared to fail,” mentioned Fowler, who had an 8-under 64 to take a 1-stroke lead over Adam Hadwin at Detroit Golf Membership. “I’ve handled loads of that.”
Certainly.
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 Vacationers 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 actually good Sunday final week and simply did not get something going, did not get something out of it,” Fowler mentioned. “Sunday on the U.S. Open, timing bought slightly off.”
Fowler, 34, has led or shared the 54-hole lead 10 occasions on the PGA Tour and has transformed the benefit right into a championship simply twice.
Fowler, who has by no means received a serious, received the 2019 Phoenix Open for his solely victory in six years. He is making his 96th begin since his final title, taking pictures to finish the longest drought of his profession and win for the sixth time on the PGA Tour.
“Whether or not it occurs [Sunday] or not, it’ll occur right here quickly,” mentioned Fowler, who has seven top-10 finishes this season and is No. 17 within the FedEx Cup standings. “I have been enjoying numerous actually good golf and been placing myself in good positions.
“This undoubtedly will not be the final.”
Hadwin had a season-low 63 to tie the event report.
“One of many hardest issues in golf is to get out of your individual approach when issues are going nicely,” he mentioned. “I have been sufferer of that.”
Hadwin was the sufferer of mistaken id 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.
“All people is aware of who I’m as a result of I am the man who bought tackled,” he mentioned.
Taylor Pendrith, who can be Canadian, was third at 18 beneath after a 67. The large hitter bogeyed two of his final 4 holes at Detroit Golf Membership.
Hadwin is hoping to turn into the fifth participant from Canada to win on the PGA Tour this season.
“I actually do not wish to be left behind,” he mentioned. “It is a fairly enjoyable leaderboard proper now with Taylor and I on the prime on Canada Day.”
If Hadwin or Pendrith wins the Rocket Mortgage Basic, it’s going to mark the primary time that five-plus gamers from exterior the U.S. received on the PGA Tour in a single season since six Australians earned titles in the course of the 2013-14 season.
Monday qualifier Peter Kuest (65) and Aaron Rai (68) had been 17 beneath. 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.
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