Michael Thorbjornsen of the United States hits his tee shot on the eighth hole during the third round of the Procore Championship 2024 at Silverado Resort on September 14, 2024 in Napa, California. (Photo by Jed Jacobsohn/Getty Images)

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

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 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.

The second of eight FedEx Cup Fall events is up this week at the Sanderson Farms Championship at the Country Club of Jackson in Mississippi, where status is on the line for next season on the PGA Tour.

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,