Rickie Fowler buys childhood driving range

It has all come full circle for Rickie Fowler.

Lower than two weeks after winning his first PGA tournament in 4 years, the golfer went again to the place it began and made an enormous buy.

The 34-year-old bought the Murrieta Valley Golf Vary in Southern California, the identical driving vary he frequented as a toddler the place he first realized to play golf.

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Fowler went to the driving vary together with his grandfather, Yutaka, who gave him classes, however when a while ran out, it was Fowler’s father who made certain his son acquired extra work in.

“My dad used to ship the sand for upkeep and gravel for the car parking zone in trade for me to hit balls,” Fowler told Golfweek.

Rickie Fowler approaches the tee field of the second gap through the closing spherical of the Wells Fargo Championship at Quail Hole Golf Membership in Charlotte, North Carolina, on Might 7, 2023. (Eston Parker/ISI Photographs/Getty Photographs)

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The driving vary opened in 1992, simply 4 years after Fowler was born. Now, because of him, it is not closing its doorways any time quickly.

“I all the time wished the vary to be round and it to be open for the following technology,” he stated. “I wished youngsters to have the identical alternative as me in the event that they had been .”

Fowler as soon as stated throughout certainly one of his highschool tournaments that he wished to purchase the vary.

Rickie Fowler walks to the 14th inexperienced through the closing spherical of the Rocket Mortgage Basic at Detroit Golf Membership in Detroit on July 2, 2023. (Cliff Hawkins/Getty Photographs)

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Fowler has earned over $55 million in PGA winnings, however nonetheless awaits a significant championship. He could have a shot at his first subsequent week at The Open Championship at Royal Liverpool.