Justin Rose
Residence: Orlando, Florida
DOB: 30/07/1980
Rose was born in Johannesburg, South Africa, but moved to the United Kingdom at the age of 5. He had a strong amateur career after being inspired to take up the game by his father who died after a two year battle with Leukaemia and played in the GB&I Walker Cup team.
Rose burst to prominence at The Open Championship in 1998. As a 17 year old amateur he holed a dramatic shot from the rough for birdie on the 72nd hole to finish tied for 4th place and while as an amateur he couldn’t pocket the prize money he did take home the prestigious silver medal for the lowest amateur score. He turned professional the following week, but initially struggled badly, missing 21 cuts in a row.
Rose's career soon began to take off as he became established on the European Tour. He won his first professional event, the Dunhill Championship in South Africa, in 2002, and followed this up with 3 further victories in that year.
In 2004, he played mainly on the PGA Tour, while also maintaining his membership of the European Tour. However he slipped out of the top 50 in the world rankings and his ranking continued to fall in early 2005. In March he announced that he was quitting the European Tour and concentrating on playing on the PGA Tour. In August of that year he made an U-turn by announcing his intention to return to the European Tour.
He lost in a playoff at the 2007 BMW PGA Championship, but moved back into the top twenty of the World Rankings for the first time, and by October had reached a new career high of 12 and became the top ranked British golfer. Rose won the European Tour Order of Merit title for 2007 in a thrilling climax to the season at the Volvo Masters, which he won in a playoff on. His new world ranking of number 7 made him the top-ranked European golfer.
Justin made a superb Ryder Cup debut in 2008 playing alongside friend Ian Poulter in foursome and four balls and then defeating Phil Mickelson 3 and 2in the singles, a month after finishing tied ninth US PGA Championship.
Justin Rose Club History
Below is a selection of clubs used by Justin Rose throughout his career
2009
Taylor Made Rossa Classic Monte Carlo 7 Putter
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Justin Rose Tournament History
2009 World Golf Championship - CA Championship |
12-15 March 2009 - Doral Golf and Spa Resort - Phil Mickelson won his first World Golf Championships title on Sunday at the CA Championship, where he held off Nick Watney to take the title by one stroke and his 36th career victory. However this was perhaps not the most news worthy story of the week. During his opening round, Henrik Stenson thought it a good idea to play from out of the water! After stripping down to his boxer shorts the Swede preceded to do just this. And it was down to PGA Tour photographer Kyle Auclair to capture this magical moment. With the world’s best golf photographers trailing Tiger Woods, Kyle decided he was going to follow other players instead. Little did he know this particular sequence of images would be plastered on newspapers, websites and television shows all over the country the next day. |
In Justin Rose's bag...The second World Golf Championship event of the season saw Justin record a top-20 finish after back-to-back rounds of 68 over the weekend. The week did not get off to the best start with Justin carding a 73 in the opening round. He partially recovered on the Friday with a 70 then the 68’s bringing him home to finish at -9. From the bag image that we have of Justin here we can see that he has stuck with largely the same equipment that we snapped him with earlier in the season. The two action shots that we have posted here are the real one sot look at. We can clearly see that the R9 and RAC MB TP irons are being used by the Englishman.
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2009 Arnold Palmer Invitational |
26-29 March 2009 - Bay Hill Country Club and Lodge - This week marked the return of the Tiger Woods we all know and love. After 9 months out of action after re-constructive knew surgery - a birdie putt at the 72nd hole saw Tiger win as Bay Hill for a sixth time. Those familiar back-nine heroics and a putt that everyone knew he was going to drain saw the world number 1 come from 5 strokes back on the final day - equalling his career best comeback. This remarkable comeback must have been great to watch apart from the eyes of Sean O’Hair who Woods beat into second place. |
In Justin Rose's bag...Justin recovered from a disappointing opening round of 75 to eventually finish in a tie for 30th. His second round of 67 repaired most of the damage left from the opening round but Justin could not carry this for through to the weekend. He closed with rounds of 73 and then a 70 in the final round - finishing at +5 for the week. This is almost the perfect image. We can see all Justin’s clubs - even the putter. The TaylorMade R9 is the most notable addition for the 2009 season. Justin has also added a pair of TaylorMade Burner Tour Launch fairways to replace the TaylorMade Burner TP fairway we snapped him with last season. He has stuck with the TaylorMade RAC MB TP irons that he was using last year but has added TaylorMade RAC Satin TP wedges on the end. His putter that we can see on the right of the image is a TaylorMade Rossa Monte Carlo.
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2008 The PGA Championship |
7-10 August - PGA Championship - Oakland Hills. Padraig Harrington secured his 3rd Major Championship in 13 months at the 90th PGA Championship. With an incredible 8-under mark over the final 36 holes thanks to matching 4-under-par 66’s, Harrington posted a 3-under, 277, total for a 2 stroke victory ahead of Sergio Garcia and Ben Curtis. It was the Irishman's 2nd major win in just 3 weeks. Interestingly, it seemed as though Harrington was ready to throw in the towel after a 4-over 74 in the 2nd round put him at +5 for the tournament. |
In Justin Rose's bag...Rounds of 64 and 71 during the course of the week help Justin to a top-10 finish in the final Major of the year. Like Sergio Garcia, Justin Rose is one of the main Taylor Made players currently on the PGA Tour and both players have a certain aspect of correlation in their bags. Justin carried a combination of Taylor Made fairway woods, an r7 TP 13˚ and a Burner TP 17.5˚ fairway. He also used the top-spec performance irons from Taylor Made, the rac MB TP (3-9). From the tee, Justin used the Taylor Made r7 SuperQuad (8.5˚). He carried 3 specialist wedges in his bag; 2 Cleveland 558 RTG's (47˚and 60˚) and a Cleveland CG10 SW. Justin completed his set with a Guerin Rife Barbados putter.
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2007 BMW PGA Championship |
24-27 May - BMW PGA Championship - West Course at Wentworth. The BMW PGA Championship was played out on a rain-lashed West Course at Wentworth in Surrey. Traditionally, the PGA attracts one of the strongest fields on the European Tour and this time was no exception with Vijay Singh, Ernie Els, Michael Campbell and others all making the trip across the pond. It was not, however, one of the better known superstars who walked off with the trophy and 725,000 Euro first prize, but Anders Hansen from Denmark who holed a 25 foot birdie putt on the first sudden-death play-off hole against England’s Justin Rose. This was only Hansen’s second victory on Tour – bizarrely the only other win was the same tournament – then called the Volvo PGA – five years earlier in 2002. |
In Justin Rose's bag...Here are Justin's clubs snapped at the 2007 BMW at Wentworth where he lost to Anders Hanson in the sudden death play-off. (but still picked up nearly 500,000 euros for second place): TaylorMade rac MB Forged irons, Cleveland CG10 n56 degree sand wedge, and Titleist Vokey 47 and 60 degree Tour Satin wedges. According to Justin's own website, the headcovers hide a TaylorMade r7 425 driver and r7 Ti Tp 13 degree fairway wood. He apparently uses a Guerin Rife putter - a manufacturer we hear little of in Europe.
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