Justin Rose hopes to summit the FedExCup Playoffs last event amidst strong field – Golf news
The top-30 players at this week’s concluding event of the FedExCup Playoff Championship, the Tour Championship presented by Coca Cola, are all set to wrestle their way up the summit and lift the $10-million title. Justin Rose, one of the top-20 English players,
however, insists that money is the last thing on his mind.
He stated, “Of course it's a huge bonus. But thinking that way about it doesn't help you play better golf. The key and the strategy still is to do what you do best, to use all your skills, to stay in the moment, to keep it one shot at a time.”
Rose won the second leg of the event, the BMW Championship at Illinois, his first PGA Toru title for the season and hopes to utilise the recent upsurge, both in confidence and rankings, to win the concluding title. He is currently poised at Number 17 on
the Official World Golf Rankings (OWGR) and third on the FedExCup points table. He is trailing Dustin Johnson and is closely followed by the current World Number One, Luke Donald.
The 31-year-old Rose, who pulled some strong finishes in the season but remained winless until this month, said, “I'm viewing this as an opportunity rather than now trying to worry about my position and trying to just think about it from the perspective
of (having) nothing to lose once again. I haven't been in this situation all year.”
He finished as a runner-up in Tavistock Cup and pulled in three other strong finishes in the season, a joint third Arnold Palmer Invitational presented by MasterCard, a joint fifth at Transitions Championship and a joint sixth at the Barclays trailing the
leader, Johnson.
Originally from Johannesburg, South Africa, Johnson has a tendency to succumb to a mental melt down in the final rounds and has been taking help with many professional players and coaches to avoid the same in the future. His strongest finish in a major event
came in 1998, when he posted a joint fourth at the Open Championship.
The battle to the summit on this weekend will be anything but easy for the young Englishman. Donald has pulled in two strong finishes in the FedExCup Championship so far, and he also managed a joint fourth in the Deutsche Bank Championship despite of his
slump in the opening round. He will be hoping to bag the title and walk all the way for the Race to Dubai Championship for an unprecedented double-dip. Also in contention will be Dustin Johnson, who won the opening leg of the event, The Barclays.
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