3: Rose (-4) -2 thru 17
Justin Rose has 11 greens in regulation through 17 holes and is steadily putting together one the best round of the afternoon wave — by a significant margin. It’s worth noting that Rose had to qualify for this Open Championship. He fell out of the top 50 in the world ranking and was forced to sign up for the Burnham & Berrow final qualifying event to play for his spot in the final major of the 2024 season.
He spoke about that process after yesterday’s round: “Probably just a bit more gratitude just to be here from that point of view, 20 years probably-ish ballpark where you make your schedule in December and you go, O.K., Masters, Open, U.S. Open, PGA, how do we plan around that. And this year it’s like, hang on a second, I’m not guaranteed in the Open or the U.S. Open at that point, either. Had to do a little bit of extra hard work just to make sure I was here.”
