‘Are you going to be a Kardashian or a golf pro?’ Coach Butch Harmon opts for tough love to get Rickie Fowler firing

Snapping back | Harmon tells Fowler to ‘get your head out of your you know what’
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Richard Parry10 April 2017

There’s tough love, and there’s brutal advice, and Rickie Fowler has certainly received a bit of both from his coach Butch Harmon.

The 28-year-old has been told to focus on being a professional golfer and give up the Kardashian lifestyle if he plans on fulfilling his potential.

Fowler, who has 1.4million followers on Twitter and over one million on Instagram, failed to contest the Masters on the final day at Augusta as he finished one under par – eight shots of leaders Justin Rose and eventual winner, Sergio Garcia.

His coach, Harmon, working as a pundit on Sky Sports revealed the pair have shared stern words over the past 12 months, with the 73-year-old - the son of 1948 Masters Tournament champion Claude Harmon, Sr – has told him in no uncertain terms to ‘get your head out of your you know what’.

"We had a big conversation at the end of the year last year and he didn't like it,” Harmon told Sky Sports. “I said 'you gotta decide are you going to be a Kardashian or are you going to be a golf pro? You're the king of social media, you're all over these snap chats and all these things.

"You need to reach down and grab your ears and get your head out of your you know what and get back to work, get your body in shape.

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"He's got a trainer he works out tremendously with and he's worked unbelievable with his golf swing. He's gone back to winning tournaments again - get rid of those Kardashians.

"The young man is ready to go. Whether it happens today or not, he's going to win some majors but this would be a good time to start."

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