LOS ANGELES – Rickie Fowler has been all smiles this week.
Friends and family have followed him during all three practice rounds. His young daughter could hardly contain her excitement when Fowler approached the ninth green during Tuesday afternoon’s walk around Los Angeles Country Club. She demanded the putter, then a couple of airborne tosses from her father into the blue California sky.
The SoCal native is back home, but he’s also returned to golf’s biggest stage, and that’s reason enough for his ear-to-ear grin.
“Back where we should be,” Fowler said after his Wednesday practice round.