Fowler Drops Outside Top-50 First Time In A Decade – Loses Automatic Augusta Tee Time.

American golfing heartthrob Rickie Fowler will end a remarkable run of 42 automatic straight in the Majors at the release of tomorrow’s updated World Rankings.

Fowler has qualified for every major since the 2010 but now has dipped to World No. 52 having missed the halfway cut in the Mayakoba Championship and the closing event of PGA Tour year.

Fowler, and who turns 32 on December 13th, went into the event ranked 49th in the world and now being outside of the 50 means he will forfeit a Deceember 31st automatic invitation to next April’s Masters.

Rickie Fowler at the peak of his career winning the 2015 AIS Scottish Open at Gullane. (Photo @europeantour)

The Californian has been inside the top-50 on the World Rankings since finishing second in the 2010 Memorial.

It was an effort that qualified Fowler a month later for the 2010 Open Championship and since his appearance at St. Andrews, Fowler has been a feature in every major championship.

It’s meant teeing-up in the last 10 Masters, the past 10 U.S. Open’s, 11 PGA Championships and 10 Open Championship’s.

Fowler’s best major’s year was undoubtedly 2014 finishing T5th at the Masters, runner-up in the U.S. Open and second to Rory McIlroy at the Royal Birkdale Open and then seeing McIlroy emerge from the darkness up the 72nd hole and be relegated to third in the 2014 PGA at Valhalla in Louisville.

Fowler, however, has paid the price for his poor form with a best finish in his 20 event this year of a share of fifth in his first event of the New Year in January.

He also ended a run of making the cut in 14 straight Majors since the 2016 US Open in missing the cut in last August’s PGA Championship and he could look back to his 15th hole when tried to one-hand a 6-inch bogey putt but his putter struck the ground first and barely nicked the ball. It rolled an inch.

Bumping Fowler out of his current 49th World Ranking spot will be England’s Matt Wallace who is set to jump from 51st to 47th after finishing joint runner-up in yesterday’s (SAT) concluding Golf in Dubai Championship.

Parisian Antoine Rozner became the third French champion this year posting a blistering last round 65 to win by two shots at 25-under on the Sergio Garcia Fire course at Jumeirah Estates.

Four players – fellow French star Mike Lorenzo-Vera (65), Italian Francesco Laporta (66) and the England pair of Andy Sullivan (70) and Wallace (68) – shared second on 23-under.



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