PGA Tour star Justin Rose responds to the LIV Golf offer he received in the past and why he decided to remain with the tour instead of joining his friends on the breakaway league
15:11 ET, 14 Aug 2025Updated 15:11 ET, 14 Aug 2025
Justin Rose shared his thoughts on LIV Golf and the offer presented to him(Image: Photo by Andy Lyons/Getty Images)
Justin Rose shared why he decided to decline LIV Golf’s offer to join the breakaway league, as he celebrates his impressive win at TPC Southwind.
Rose, at 45 years old, pulled out a win over J.J. Spaun at the FedEx St. Jude Championship, besting the American star in a heated playoff duel, showing just how he still has what it takes to best the stars of the PGA Tour. The veteran took advantage of Tommy Fleetwood’s collapse to notch his 12th tour win.
As one of the older players on the tour, Rose shared that his win best displayed his superpower of rising to the occasion when needed. And despite his advanced age, the star is cherishing his opportunity to play on the tour, having turned down an opportunity to play the later years of his career with supreme financial security as a member of LIV.
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Speaking with No Laying Up ahead of the BMW Championship, Rose shared why he ultimately declined the Saudi Arabian-backed circuit’s offer. “Obviously I had the opportunity and a lot of my friends have gone over there and I harbor no ill feeling for guys who have made that decision at certain times of their career, but I just felt like I had more to give,” he began.
“I felt like I had more to give myself. I felt like I needed to believe in the 12-year-old me that wanted to win major championships and chase my dreams. And LIV didn’t offer me that at all, you know – didn’t offer the opportunity to continue to play in majors.”
Rose added that on the PGA Tour, nothing is “given” and that each player had to earn “everything.” It was that challenge that the star felt he needed to have, which ultimately led him to remain with the tour.
Justin Rose currently is enjoying an impressive season this year(Image: Photo by Andy Lyons/Getty Images)
“I needed that environment to keep pushing me and didn’t really have any business believing I could win a major again, but I truly do believe I can have that sort of Indian summer to my career,” he continued. “And for me, that’s way more valuable than let’s just say, trying to put a financial reward to it.
“Like I said, it’s the goal of my golfing dreams. It’s the 12-year-old me. It’s almost like having a rhetorical question, a conversation with 12-year-old me and justifying why I would have made that move.
“I would have thought he would have probably not been too happy with it. I think with where I’m trending, I’m pretty happy with where I’m at. And I think that the dream is still alive.”
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Rose’s dream is very much still alive, as evidenced by his success at TPC Southwind last week. Speaking to NBC Sports’ Damon Hack after his win, the 45-year-old shared what has allowed him to remain consistent despite being one of the older competitors at any given time.
“Yeah, I’ve always known I’ve had that,” Rose said, referring to his ability to reach another gear. “Like I get nervous for the best of them, you know, like I feel nervous at times, but I know that when it matters, I still got it. I kind of get, I feel better and better and better as it gets more and more important.
“So that’s good to know. It’s the hard stuff to practice. It’s the hard stuff to teach. Nice to know that that hasn’t left me at this ripe old age.
“But listen, I don’t want to keep saying that because I’m actually, I feel like I’m moving well. The body’s feeling good. I’m training well. Yeah, I feel like there could be, you know, listen, it could be a good run of golf still. So I can’t let the age kind of become too much of the story.”