2006 MasterCard Masters Goes To Justin Rose

Let’s hope that’s the only thing an Englishman wins all summer…

Recovering nicely from an eight at the par 5 seventh, Justin Rose kept himself composed for the rest of the round, and made sure the 16th, 17th and 18th did not cause him to lose the tournament or go into a play-off.

“Everyone was making bogies out there” said Rose, “but once you suddenly saw Richard Green had posted 10, I knew I had to play the last three holes well. I’ve played those terribly all week. To play the last three one under for me is why won the tournament.”

It was a breakthrough victory for Rose, who throughout the year had being in contention, yet was winless.

“I’ve been knocking on the door of late, and it was in the back of my mind. I can’t keep knocking on the door and not getting over the line. You know people will start to look at it from a different standpoint like “Why aren’t you winning?”. I knew that was the case and I am deleted that I got the job finally done.”

It was Rose’s first win since the British Masters in 2002.