Augusta, VE. – Justin Rose has been there in the Masters, twice, but has failed to cross the line.
After the defeat of Sunday’s masters against Rory Mcilroy, the 44 -year -old Rose has the doubtful distinction of having lost in a playoff twice in the masters.
He also lost to Sergio García in 2017, the last time the tournament went to additional holes.
Rose had gone through this once before, so he knew the traps.
“The playoff always ends so fast,” Rose said after losing to Mcilroy in the first hole of the playoffs on Sunday at Augusta National. “That is sudden death. You don’t have a chance. If you are not the guy who hits the great shot or the hole, the great putt, it ended.”
It was quickly for English on Sunday, as was for him in 2017, when he lost to Garcia.
Rose, who was in the mixture in the Masters all week, leading the first day after shooting a 65, played intention to return in the final round of Sunday.
He made a long Birdie putt in 18 in regulation to be placed in position for the playoff when Mcilroy fragmented his hole 72.
Rose hit the street on the extra hole, then hit a great approach shot at 10 feet.
Mcilroy, he thought, hit his approach even closer, 3 feet.
Rose missed his Birdie Putt and Mcilroy made his own and ended, leaving Rose a victim of the two -time Playoffs Masters.
“Disappointing,” he said. “I think about losing in a playoff for the second time or scores both and making you realize how close your leg. Yes, it hurts. What are you going to do about it, thought?
“I think it already started in my career when I finished Sergio here second. By then, I played some of my best golf in my career, I arrived in the world no. 1. What do you choose to stop, do you know what I mean?
“It makes no sense to be too dejected by that, and you look at all good things in this situation. You can skip through a race with a little anguish. It will happen.
Rose has finished the second place in the last two specialties, which goes back to the British Open last year, where Second of Xander Schauffele ended.
Rose, who shot 6-low 66 on Sunday, felt that he played some of his best golf in his career.
“It’s an incredible week bone on day 1,” Rose said. “Part of the golf that play this week has probably been the best of my career, green t -shirt and even in the green ones sometimes. It is a fogey far from being the best round that I have played.
“I woke up this morning, very grateful [for] Sunday [at] AUGUSTA. I really wanted to go and put a good account in Myelf and I felt that I had a strong start. Then something happened, sure, about half of the round. I am only the son of getting used to the place you dream of going. I felt so good with my game. I felt so good with my mind. I began to feel that I was playing in the tournament. I was focused by laser. “
His long Putt Birdie in 18 to tie Mcilroy was one of those epic puts that would have been shown in the most prominent aspects for years. I had won it.
“He is Putt’s son with whom you dream when he is a child, and to have it and guide him, it was a special feeling,” he said. “But it really is nothing that has done more today.”
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