The clock is ticking for Rickie Fowler , and his path to the Masters just got significantly harder. The American sits at 80th in the Official World Golf Ranking with an April deadline looming to crack the top 50. Yet he faces a brutal 158-day tournament drought before his next scheduled start at The American Express, running January 19-25, 2026. That’s over five months without competitive golf following his T7 finish at the BMW Championship in August.

The news broke via the Rickie Fowler Tracker account on X. “ Rickie did not receive an exemption into the Hero World Challenge,” the post revealed. Moreover, he’s absent from the field at the Grant Thornton Invitational. His Grant Thornton sponsorship ended in 2025 after six years. Consequently, he lost automatic entry to that mixed pr

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