Rickie Fowler is making his first appearance in a PGA Tour event since the 2024 British Open this week at the Sanderson Farms Championship in Jackson, Mississippi. As one of the field’s headliners, he spoke with the media on Tuesday.

Fowler has not played in a PGA Tour event since the Open, but now he is back for the Sanderson Farms Championship.

Rickie Fowler hasn’t played a golf tournament since the British Open, taking 2½ months off from competition. Fowler — who finished the regular season outside the top 100 in the FedEx Cup standings — was already unlikely to make the 70-man playoffs before choosing to skip the Wyndham Championship,

It was definitely a different feeling packing and getting ready to come here versus just going to another tournament.”