I know I can get it done

From the outside, Rickie Fowler has it all: a beautiful wife, the adoration of the golf world and five PGA Tour wins. He’s been a part of an American Ryder Cup victory. He also has a social media presence most athletes can only dream of. He has grown the game of golf in ways that can never be properly quantified.

But at the age of 31–and with more than a decade on the PGA Tour under his stylish Cobra Puma belt–how does the man himself rate his own career out of ten?

“I’d say it has been successful,” the affable American tells Golf Monthly. “But it has definitely not been ten out of ten.”

Star in the making

In 2009, Fowler entered golf’s professional ranks with more notoriety than most. Most of the hype was because of his glittering amateur career. He was top of the World Amateur Golf Ranking for 36 weeks between 2007 and 2008. He was a stand-out college player at the renowned Oklahoma State University,