Fowler not acting his age with so much recent TOUR success  text
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Wacker, PGATOUR.COM  PONTE VEDRA BEACH, Fla. -- Kids these days.
They grow up so fast.  Rickie Fowler certainly has, or rather
is, right before our eyes.  Never mind his maturity inside the
ropes in nearly winning his first PLAYERS Championship and for
the second straight week, or on the outside of them when he hung
around the scoring area until Matt Kuchar finished so he could
congratulate him.  This wasn't the first time Fowler didn't act
his age.  When he was a teenager growing up in Southern
California, Fowler always wanted to wear pants when he played
golf even if all the other kids were wearing shorts.  After
breaking three bones in his ankle and injuring his wrist in a
dirt bike accident three weeks before high school golf tryouts,
it was Rickie who told his dad to sell the bike.  "Ever since he
was 15 years old, everyone said he acted more like a 25-year-
old," Fowler's father