Ryan Noonan
2 years ago
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Rickie has looked a bit lost of late, and I don’t believe Riviera is a place that you come to get right. Over his past five starts, Fowler has lost 1.43 strokes per round to the field and hasn’t flirted with a T40 finish all season. He’s lost strokes putting in eight of his past nine measured events, and he’s coming off of a missed cut at one of his favorite tracks, TPC Scottsdale. Fowler posted his best career finish at the Genesis last year, a T20, but entered in excellent form with a T11 at Torrey Pines and a T10 at the 2023 WM Phoenix Open in his two starts leading up to it.
A similar story can be told of Sungjae Im, who has lost strokes on approach in four straight events, which is the first time he’s done that since July 2020. He’s also yet to challenge the top of the leaderboard at any of his four previous starts at Riviera, topping out with a T33 back in 2022. He missed the cut a few weeks ago at this week’s top corollary course, Torrey Pines, and followed that up with back-to-back T66 finishes at Pebble Beach and TPC Scottsdale. Despite his strong short game, Im ranked 40th in my pretournament Rabbit Hole Model this week.
Last year’s T55 finish was Tom Kim’s debut at Riviera CC, and he didn’t break 70 in any of the four rounds. His lack of distance, paired with his inexperience on these California poa greens, cap his ceiling this week. Kim is still just 21 years old, and while his strong showings at last summer’s U.S. Open and Open Championship are encouraging, the majority of Kim’s wins and top finishes have come at courses with easy scoring conditions.