Justin Rose insists there is plenty of time left for him to win the Open Championship as he returns to where it all started for him at Royal Birkdale in 1998.
As a 17-year-old amateur he announced himself to the world by holing a pitch shot at the last in the final round to secure joint fourth place, prompting him to immediately turn professional.
Ahead of his third appearance on the Southport links 28 years on from his first, with a US Open, an Olympic gold medal and 25 other professional wins under his belt, Rose believes the biggest prize in golf for an Englishman is still within his grasp.
“The Open Championship for a British player is the pinnacle of the game for sure. It’s the one that I would love to win the most, for sure,” said the 45-year-old, one of a number of Englishmen trying to become the first since Sir Nick Faldo in 1992 to lift the Claret Jug.
“To step through my career and not have a jug at the end of it, I’ll always look back at it and go, ‘yeah, that’s a shame’.
As a 17-year-old amateur he announced himself to the world by holing a pitch shot at the last in the final round to secure joint fourth place, prompting him to immediately turn professional.
Ahead of his third appearance on the Southport links 28 years on from his first, with a US Open, an Olympic gold medal and 25 other professional wins under his belt, Rose believes the biggest prize in golf for an Englishman is still within his grasp.
“The Open Championship for a British player is the pinnacle of the game for sure. It’s the one that I would love to win the most, for sure,” said the 45-year-old, one of a number of Englishmen trying to become the first since Sir Nick Faldo in 1992 to lift the Claret Jug.
“To step through my career and not have a jug at the end of it, I’ll always look back at it and go, ‘yeah, that’s a shame’.
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