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McIlroy, Fowler Could Face Off in Primetime Event

According to the Associated Press, Rory McIlroy and Rickie Fowler are going to go heads up in an exhibition match one week before the U.S. Open. Oh, and it will be at night and in primetime.

 

For the first time in more than a decade, golf is getting another primetime exhibition. Except this one will be live – under the lights. Quicken Loans is finalizing details for a match involving Rory McIlroy and Rickie Fowler a week before the U.S Open, a person familiar with the negotiations told the Associated Press on Monday.
The exhibition would take place at Detroit Golf Club on June 7, which is the Tuesday before the week of the U.S. Open at Oakmont.

This, of course, invokes the famous Showdown at Sherwood and Battle at Bighorn night matches from the late 1990s and early 2000s involving Tiger Woods. Those were hokey, yes, but they were also really fun. And Sergio Garcia took them a little too seriously.

McIlroy and Fowler are two of the best personalities, and as the AP noted, there could be a celebrity component which would make it even more intriguing.
Would World No. 1 Jordan Spieth get involved?

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