By Randall Mell
Golf Channel Senior Writer
PONTE VEDRA BEACH, Fla. – You can’t script drama like The Players Championship delivered late Sunday afternoon at the TPC Sawgrass Stadium Course.
You can build a fabulous amphitheater, you can give players a dazzling stage, but then all you can do is stand back and watch them improvise.
What Rickie Fowler and Co. dreamed up will go down as a classic.
Fowler helped turn the course Pete Dye built on a swamp all those years ago into sport’s real Field of Dreams.
For more than two hours, Fowler and a brilliant supporting cast gave us drama almost as magical as that imagined in the fictional Iowa cornfield author Ray Kinsella created in his popular book that was turned into a movie. In fact, if Kinsella had written this finish to The Players, we might have seen Bobby Jones, Walter Hagen, Ben Hogan and Sam Snead in the shadows tipping their caps to Fowler.
Maybe even high fiving each other.
That’s how ridiculously over the top Fowler’s finish was.