Rickie Fowler vs. Kristoffer Reitan

Fowler's Open Championship record is quietly one of the best in this field: he's one of a small handful of players who've made the cut in every one of the last five playings of this tournament, a run of reliability that matters at a major built to expose inconsistency. Reitan, for all his rookie-year promise, has seen his short game put increasing strain on his ball-striking over his last several starts, which is a dangerous combination on firm links turf where scrambling from the wrong spot gets punished fast. Fowler doesn't need to be the most dominant player in the field this week. He just needs to keep doing what he's done at this tournament for the past half-decade: survive the moments that beat other players. Fowler is the right side in this matchup.