American now relishes taking on the elements after learning to adapt skills he picked up in his youth in US to conditions on the Scottish coastRickie Fowler has turned up this week with all the assurance of a man who is at peace with life and the challenge ahead in what has become his first multiple-win season and one he wants to enhance by carrying off a first major title.
It was at St Andrews in 2010 when the man who won final week’s Scottish Open to add to the Players Championship he took in May says he first realised the links game with which he had dabbled since appearing in the USA Walker Cup team in 2007 suited him rather well, allowing him to draw on skills he picked up perhaps unwittingly in his years at school and college.
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Source: theguardian.com