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Article snippet: ERIN, Wis. — Rickie Fowler has been here before. Has he ever. And he doesn’t need to be reminded. “I know I haven’t won a major championship,” Fowler said Sunday evening after he was again in contention on the last day of a golf major and again finished somewhere other than first place. But Fowler, who started the final round of the United States Open two strokes off the lead, would not let the sting of another near miss, his second at this event, sink in. “If you look at the negatives too much, I mean, you’re going to be stuck doing that the whole time,” he said, before pointing out how high Tiger Woods had set the bar. “You have to measure success in different ways, not just by winning, just because that doesn’t happen a whole lot. I think Tiger had the best winning percentage of all time at 30 percent, and you’re lucky to even sniff close to 10.” He shrugged. “It was a good week; I might get another top five today,” he added. With a final-round 72 that included three bogeys, Fowler did tie for fifth, six strokes behind the winner, Brooks Koepka. Fowler now has five top-five finishes at majors in the last four years. At this year’s Masters, he began the final round one stroke off the lead, then shot 76 and tumbled down the leaderboard into a tie for 11th. He has been in the hunt heading into the final round of a major seven times without a victory, beginning in 2011. He also has 10 runner-up finishes on the PGA Tour. Those kinds of results might grate on other ... Link to the full article to read more