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 is playing the Sanderson Farms Championship, the second tournament of the PGA Tour’s eight-event fall schedule.

The 35-year-old Fowler, who along with wife Allison welcomed their second child, daughter Nellie, in August, signed up to play at next week’s Sanderson Farms Championship in Jackson, Mississippi, at The Country Club of Jackson. It marks the first time that Fowler has ever played in the event that hands out a trophy in the likeness of a rooster.

Rickie Fowler (+6600 odds to win) enters the 2024 Sanderson Farms Championship at Country Club of Jackson after he made the cut in his last tournament, The Open Championship, and finished

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,