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Fowler finished joint runner-up behind Rory McIlroy in The Open at Hoylake and Martin Kaymer in the US Open during a 2014 season which also saw him come third at the PGA Championship and fifth in the Masters.

His run of near-misses came to a stunning end at the 2015 Players Championship. He played the last six holes in six under par and produced two more birdies to win the play-off. Another brilliant finish - three birdies in the last four holes - enabled him to capture the Aberdeen Asset Management Scottish Open two months later and he then added the Deutsche Bank Championship, part of the FedEx Cup play-offs. When he also triumphed at the 2016 Abu Dhabi HSBC Championship he was a career-high fourth in the world. 

As an amateur he led the world rankings for 36 weeks and won seven out of eight games in two Walker Cup appearances, while on his Ryder Cup debut at Celtic Manor in 2010 he grabbed four closing birdies for a singles half with Edoardo Molinari. He did not retain his place in 2012, but has been part of the last two teams.