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Koepka, Fowler Among winning form in 2022. Last year, Fowler did post an • Former Honda Classic champions Keith Mitchell,

Early Commitments To Play eighth-place finish at the PGA Championship. It was the Padraig Harrington, Michael Thompson, Rory Sabbatini,
33-year-old’s 12th top-10 finish in a major and a sign to
and Luke Donald
In The 2022 Honda Classic him that the massive work he has been putting in on his Koepka has been in an upbeat mood recently now that
swing the past year was starting to pay dividends. he is finding his form and confidence. He says that he is
Brooks Koepka and Rickie Fowler, two of the biggest fan The two will take on a world-class field that thus far just about 100 percent healthy and that his 2018/19 season
favorites in golf, have committed to play in the 2022 Honda also includes early entries from: in which he won the U.S. Open and PGA Championships
Classic, a PGA Tour event which will be held Feb. 21 to 27 • Louis Oosthuizen, the world’s No. 12 ranked player who and also made more than $7 million can be replicated in
at PGA National Resort & Spa. won The Open Championship in 2010 has finished second 2022 and beyond.
Koepka, a 31-year-old West Palm Beach product who has or third in each of the last three majors “That wasn’t peak,” Koepka said. “That wasn’t peak.
won four major championships, is returning to the champion • Tommy Fleetwood, runner-up in the 2018 U.S. Open Just wait.”
course where he finished second in 2019, after being forced and 2019 The Open Championship Koepka announced an equipment change in November
to miss the 2021 event with a freak knee injury. A bad step • Lee Westwood – 2020 Race to Dubai winner for the third and the results thus far have been encouraging. He
turned into a dislocated kneecap that shattered last March time as the European Tour’s top player finished tied for ninth at the Hero World Challenge and
when Koepka tried to jam his knee back into place. • Gary Woodland – 2019 U.S. Open champion then 28th at the Sentry Tournament of Champions at
Fowler, who won the 2017 Honda and finished second • Stewart Cink Kapalua.
in 2019 and sixth in 2016, also is looking to regain his • Billy Horschel, ranked No. 23 in the world “I’m very, very happy, and it’s even taken me by shock
how easy this transition is, and I think everything’s getting
right where it should be,” Koepka said. “My game feels
good. I feel good. I should be playing good.”
The injuries and just getting a little older have forced
Koepka to make lifestyle adjustments and not be as
reckless as he might have been in his 20s.
“Mentally, I still think I’m 21. But the past three
years, there’s the realization I’m not that young person
anymore who can go Jet Ski or wakeboard or whatever,”
Koepka told Golf Digest recently. “Getting out of bed now
takes 30 minutes to get going. You have to change your
lifestyle. I probably packed on 10 to 15 pounds after the
knee surgery because I can’t be as active as I was. I can’t
go run. I’m never going to be able to run again. You’re
parking closer to the door than before and all that.”
Koepka told Golf Channel recently that his injuries
have also actually helped him think better on the course
rather than just relying on his physical game which carried
him to 15 top 10s in majors since 2015. He won four of
those, two U.S. Opens and two PGA Championships
between 2015 and 2017 and still thinks he can reach Jack
Nicklaus’ record of 18 victories in major championships.
“In my mind, I’m going to catch him on majors. I
believe that,” Kopeka said. “I don’t see any reason that
can stop me. I’m 31. I have another 14 years left. If I win
one a year, I got Jack. People misconstrue that as being
cocky. No, that’s just my belief. If I don’t have that belief,
I shouldn’t be out there. If you don’t think you can win,
why the hell are you teeing it up? Sports are made to have
a winner and a loser. You’re one or the other.”
Fowler has won nine events in his pro career, with five
on the PGA Tour: the 2012 Wells Fargo Championship,
two in 2015 (The Players and Deutsche Bank), the 2017
Honda Classic, and the Waste Management in 2019.
He has been feeling good in recent weeks and expects
to add to that total in 2022.
“It has been a bit more of just going out and not
worrying so much about the swing, not golf swing but just
playing golf and hitting shots,” Fowler said. “It’s been
fun to be back in a position where I can just go play golf.
And like I said, we put the work in on the swing, and so
time to stop worrying about that and go play golf. It’s
been a long time coming, but it is nice to finally start to
see some results.”
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