Fowler will try to fly a ball into a specially built island hole inside a fountain at the D.C. complex situated along the Potomac River, according to a Red Bull press release.
Blind shot. "Fowler’s task is to hit a blind hole-in-one between two buildings, around one fountain hazard -- and into an island green placed in another fountain -- all amongst hundreds of spectators," the statement said.
With his tee box at the main entrance to the Georgetown Waterfront, Fowler will try to hit a shot over a "water hazard" in front of the tee area and through a narrow lane to the fountain in the center of the up-scale restaurant and office-building development -- without going out of bounds into any of the buildings on each side of the makeshift "fairway."
Fowler tweeted Friday that the event -- which runs from 5 p.m.-6 p.m. tonight and is part of Red Bull’s pre-Open promo that included a scavenger hunt for golf balls throughout downtown Washington -- was "gonna be crazy!!" He will also hand out the grand prize to the winner of the scavenger hunt.
As a Red Bull endorser (along with teen golf phenom Lexi Thompson and NFL star Reggie Bush), Fowler swigs the energy drink during tour events. The third-year pro and rising young star has no career wins and two top-10 finishes this season.
On the tee. The 22-year-old, who enjoys motocross and irritating old fogeys by flipping his straight-billed golf cap backwards, will tee it up for real at Congressional Country Club Thursday at 1:57 p.m. with golf’s fashion-plate Ian Poulter and fellow flat-brimmer Hunter Mahan.
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