Is this the week Rickie Fowler breaks through in a major?

SOUTHAMPTON, N.Y. (AP) — Rickie Fowler knows he can win major championships. He says everyone in golf knows that. So, Rickie, how about this week in the U.S. Open?

Majors have not been kind to Fowler, who either gets teased or slammed by them. In April, he came up one shot short of Patrick Reed at the Masters. Fowler also was runner-up at both the U.S. and British Opens in 2014. In all, he has eight top-five finishes in Grand Slam events.

He also has missed cuts in seven majors.

So, once again, he was asked Wednesday: Rickie, how about this week?

"Yeah, definitely I've been very close," Fowler said. "I feel like there's a few you could look at and say, if it wasn't for that one guy, we would have won.