Rickie: Monday Clinic In Oceanside After Abu Dhabi Win

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Tod Leonard has a nice game story of sorts from Rickie Fowler's youth clinic to kick off Farmers Insurance Open week.

Granted, a pro doing a Monday clinic is not news, except when he flies from halfway around the world to get there following a nice win in the HSBC.

Leonard writes:

The wheels of Fowler’s commercial jet left the ground at 2:30 a.m. in the United Arab Emirates, and when they touched down again nearly 17 hours later in San Francisco early on Monday morning, the buzz in the golf world already had turned to ditching the current “Big Three” by adding another member to the club.

"Fab Four?"

“It’s really cool,” Fowler, 27, said after the clinic he co-hosted with first-year PGA Tour pro Hunter Stewart. “It’s somewhere that I haven’t been before. To be inside that top five is pretty special.”

And he addressed the high-tops, which he wore to the clinic in shorts.

“The jinx is off,” Fowler told the kids.

“It’s amazing,” he later added, “about how much talk there is. Whether it’s good or bad, it doesn’t matter. As long as they’re talking about it.”