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From first alternate to first U.S. Open 62, Rickie Fowler comes full circle at LACC

LOS ANGELES – Rickie Fowler spent a long, wasted Thursday on the range last year at The Country Club hoping, hitting and, ultimately, going home.

“I got some good work in,” Fowler laughed Thursday at Los Angeles Country Club when asked about last year’s U.S. Open.

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Fowler began the first round at Brookline as the first alternate and never sniffed the golf course, perhaps the cruelest of destinies for any professional to be so close to something and yet completely detached.

There was no measure of revenge for Fowler on Day 1 on the North Course.