The official 2025 PGA Tour season is over, and golf nerds are getting impatient. Turning towards next year’s early rank predictions seems like the only viable choice. Early stats have rolled in, and many sit comfortably in the top 50. However, one name, Rickie Fowler, finds itself at the crossroads yet again.

For much of the past decade, Fowler has been one of golf’s most marketable faces. But stats by X’s Nosferatu indicate he will neither crack the top 50 in OWGR by this year’s end, nor qualify for the season’s first major event at Augusta. Fowler right now sits at 83. The 2026 edition will be his second consecutive miss.

In November, Rickie Fowler admitted to injuring his shoulder , which had forced him to take an extended break from competition. This hiatus couldn’t have come a

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