Rickie Fowler hit his breaking point with an Instagram troll loser.<\/p>\n
PublishedAugust 18, 2025 12:06 PM EDT\u2022UpdatedAugust 18, 2025 12:06 PM EDT<\/p>\n
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Rickie Fowler sounds ready to fight.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The normally docile PGA Tour stalwart unloaded on an Instagram troll who has been bashing to 36-year-old golfer on the social media app since at least early August.\u00a0<\/p>\n
After watching his 2025 playoffs come to a close Sunday at the BMW Championship after it looked like he’s make the top 30 in the FedEx Cup standings and earn a trip to the Tour Championship at East Lake, Fowler, unloaded on the troll.\u00a0<\/p>\n
“Retarded loser f—ot, imagine how embarrassed your family probably is of you. Hahahahahahaha you’re a f–king loser retire from golf,” the troll wrote this summer.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Sunday, after work, Rickie had some time to engage.<\/p>\n
“Cliff, or whoever you are, you know where to find me and I’d love to see you face to face,” Fowler wrote on Instagram Story while posting a screenshot of the attacks the fan had been sending.\u00a0<\/p>\n
It was looking good for Fowler through 13 holes on Sunday, but then he bogied the 14th. Then, on 15, his approach shot went over the green, into the deep rough. A failed flop shot later, he was facing down a double bogey.\u00a0<\/p>\n
His summer was over.\u00a0<\/p>\n
“Obviously bummed,” Fowler said of his round. “I knew what I needed to do. Really just made a poor swing. I just needed to give myself a little bit more time and get fully committed to what I was trying to do. Eight-iron into 14, I hung it out, left it out right. Really don\u2019t feel the breeze down there in the fairway, and just got my start line out to the right too much, and I had the ball below my feet. A few variables. So bummer on that one.”<\/p>\n
While Rickie was packing up and heading home to his daughters and wife, Allison Stokke, the Instagram troll went to work.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Fowler explodes on Instagram troll \u2018Cliff\u2019\u00a0<\/p>\n
“You’re the one hiding behind your little fake account,” the PGA pro wrote. I’m sure your significant others are so thrilled how you’ve done in life\u2026enjoy your Sunday evening.”\u00a0<\/p>\n
How’d the year go for Fowler?\u00a0<\/p>\n
He entered 21 PGA Tour events, made 18 cuts, had three top 10 finishes and finished in the top 25 nine times. It was good enough for $3.44 million in earnings.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Rickie Fowler hit his breaking point with an Instagram troll loser. PublishedAugust 18, 2025 12:06 PM EDT\u2022UpdatedAugust 18,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":81414,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[443],"tags":[49,48,622,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-81413","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-golf","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-golf","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81413","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=81413"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81413\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/81414"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81413"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81413"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81413"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}