KIAWAH ISLAND, S.C. – Adam Scott is a former Masters champion and Tyrell Hatton is No. 8 in the Official World Golf Ranking, and Thursday they spent 18 holes of a major championship listening to fans cheer for the 128th-ranked player in the world.
A lot of people adore Rickie Fowler, which is why a lot of people do not. Almost anyone in golf will say Fowler is as nice a person as there is in the game, prone to small acts of kindness, perpetually aware that other people have feelings, too. And yet there is grumbling that he is a marketing creation—a player with just five PGA Tour wins and seemingly 10 times that many endorsements.