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Rookie of the Year? For Fowler, there are only two options

ATLANTA – Unlike the PGA Tour's Player of the Year Award, which is bound for Brook Koepka’s South Florida home for the second consecutive year, the destination of the circuit’s Rookie of the Year Award is far less certain.

The short list of potential rookie-of-the-year candidates includes Sungjae Im, Cameron Champ, Adam Long, Matthew Wolff and Collin Morikawa. Champ, Long, Wolff and Morikawa have all won on Tour this season, but Im is the only rookie to qualify for the Tour Championship, which is normally the standard for Rookie of the Year Award winners.

“Im not having a win means he had to have a number of good finishes to reach [East Lake],” said Rickie Fowler, the 2010 winner of the Rookie of the Year Award.