Rickie Fowler may have come up short at the WGC-FedEx St. Jude’s Invitational on Sunday, but you won’t hear him say it was because he couldn’t catch a break.
Fowler finished in 15th place and at 7-under for the tournament, but he could have been a lot lower on the leaderboard had he not gotten one of the most fortuitous bounces you will ever see. It happened at the par-3 11th hole, where Fowler came up short of the green with a 9-iron. It looked as though his ball was going to end up in the water, but the Golf gods intervened. Check it out:
That’s right — Fowler’s ball bounced off a rock, straight up into the air and landed on the center of the green. He was able to safety two-putt for par.
Fowler’s shot may not have been as lucky as the one Ian Poulter hit at the British Open a couple of years ago, but it was up there.
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