Welcome to the Monday Finish, the most overrated Monday column in golf. (That didn't take long.)

Let me say this about the anonymous player poll that named Fowler T1 in the Most Overrated Player on TOUR category: He cares.

He won't admit it (nor should he), but he cares. How could anyone possibly avoid caring?

A few years ago, I tagged along with Fowler on a media tour of New York City. Behind the scenes, he was engaging and cordial, as always, but during his down time, he was reading his Twitter mentions and Instagram comments, the good and the bad, and reacting to both. To fans that were particularly misinformed or aggressive, he would reply with a correction or block them with pleasure.

Does he still do that? Maybe not. But can that part of someone ever go away? Fowler is one of the most talked-about, written-about players on TOUR and maybe it's something that you get used to avoiding with time. He certainly claims that to be the case.

"No, I laughed at the poll," he said after winning Sunday night. "If there was any question, I think this right here (pats the crystal trophy) answers anything you need to know."

Sunday afternoon at THE PLAYERS, Fowler was walking up No. 17 at TPC Sawgrass for the third time of the day. The crowds – both inside and outside the ropes – were at capacity with the majority of them – both inside and outside the ropes – pulling for Rickie. As he approached the island green with just a 6-footer left for birdie, fans started chanting his name in unison. It was a scene out of a child's putting-green imagination. Or a golf fan's Sunday imagination. Or a TV executive's imagination.

"RICK-EEE! RICK-EEE!"

Fowler was stone-faced all week, by many accounts the most serious we've seen him on the golf course. But as he made the right turn and stepped onto the astroturf that carpets golf's most famous isthmus, a pent-up smile finally broke through, the type of smile that TOUR players try to resist. The one that shows that you grasp everything that's about to happen and everything that has already happened.

Don't let him fool you. Rickie Fowler cares. He just has a much more exciting way of showing it.