Rickie Fowler’s clean card, Taylor Pendrith leads among 5 things to know at Shriners Children’s Open

When Rickie Fowler first turned pro, he called Las Vegas home for one year and lived a mile from TPC Summerlin, site of this week’s Shriners Children Open. He practiced there all the time. As for the Strip? Not so much.

“I went down to The Strip once when Oklahoma State was in town playing a golf tournament at Southern Highlands and took them out to dinner,” he recalled. “That was my one trip down there for the year.”

Making his eighth appearance in this event, Fowler drove it on a strip of fairway all day on Thursday — hitting 14 of 14 fairways — and shot a bogey-free 66 that had him looking forward to getting some good meals in Sin City. 

“Vegas is always a fun place to come back to. Great city, good food, just about anything you want to do, it’s here,” he said. “Everything you can think of, you can get it here.”

Shriners: Friday tee times

Here’s everything you need to know – or at least five things – about the first round of the Shriners Children’s Open, where Taylor Pendrith grabbed the first-round lead.