{"id":442623,"date":"2026-02-01T10:35:14","date_gmt":"2026-02-01T10:35:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/442623\/"},"modified":"2026-02-01T10:35:14","modified_gmt":"2026-02-01T10:35:14","slug":"justin-rose-delivers-tiger-like-performance-at-torrey-pines-leads-by-six-shots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/442623\/","title":{"rendered":"Justin Rose delivers Tiger-like performance at Torrey Pines, leads by six shots"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Justin Rose hits 81-yard approach to 3 feet, sets up birdie on No. 18 at Farmers<\/p>\n

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SAN DIEGO (AP) \u2014 Joel Dahmen arrived to the PGA TOUR too late to see Tiger Woods in his prime at Torrey Pines Golf Course. He was witness to what might have been the next best thing Saturday \u2014 Justin Rose in control of his game and making the rest of the field feel hopeless in the Farmers Insurance Open.<\/p>\n

Rose stretched his lead to as many as eight shots in a performance Woods could appreciate. He was slowed by a few mistakes on the back nine and wound up with a 4-under 68 to lead by six, the largest 54-hole lead at the tournament since Woods led by eight in 2008.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ve enjoyed playing the golf course this week. I want to continue to enjoy the week as a whole,\u201d Rose said. \u201cAnd yeah, it\u2019s another great round in good weather on an awesome golf course.\u201d<\/p>\n

Rose started with a four-shot lead and pulled away with a sublime three-hole stretch of birdies on the front nine \u2014 a pitching wedge to a back pin to 6 feet on No. 5, a 7-wood to pin-high on the par-5 sixth and a 9-iron over a tree to 5 feet with the pin tucked right over a bunker.<\/p>\n

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Justin Rose shoots 4-under 68 | Round 3 Highlights | Farmers<\/p>\n

\u201cHe hit at some pins that I was very impressed at, but then they went to 4 feet and he tapped it in for birdie,\u201d Dahmen said. \u201cYou know you\u2019re playing really well when you\u2019re doing that. And it was kind of one after another.\u201d<\/p>\n

But the seventh hole got his attention, even though Rose sheepishly conceded he wasn’t trying to be that aggressive.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere\u2019s no room to miss it,\u201d Dahmen said. “The wind is starting to puff off that canyon there so it always plays longer. So he\u2019s got to hit it high over the tree out of the first cut \u2014 it could fly, come out dead \u2014 and he hits this thing to the moon, it comes down to 4 feet.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou don\u2019t hit that shot in a practice round let alone when you have a six- or seven-shot lead on Saturday,\u201d he said. \u201cAt that point, that was just kind of like, \u2018OK, you win.\u2019”<\/p>\n

Rose was at 21-under 195, breaking by three shots the 54-hole tournament record that previously belonged to him in 2019 when he won, along with Kyle Stanley (2012), Woods (2008) and Woody Blackburn (1985). Stanley is the only one who didn’t win, losing a five-shot lead.<\/p>\n

Rose has been around long enough to take nothing for granted. And he was the beneficiary of Dustin Johnson, the world’s No. 1 player at the time, losing a six-shot lead in the 2017 HSBC Champions.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere\u2019s never going to be any complacency,\u201d Rose said. \u201cI think there\u2019s always enough respect for the game of golf in the back of your mind that you\u2019ve got to do everything right tomorrow. You\u2019re going to come out, have to be focused, have to play well.\u201d<\/p>\n

Woods practically owned the public course along the Pacific bluffs with eight professional wins, including the U.S. Open.<\/p>\n

Brooks Koepka, in his return to the PGA TOUR, played a solid round except for the short putts. He turned a 3-foot par putt into a double bogey on the par-3 11th, and he had a 3-foot birdie putt turn into a bogey on the par-5 ninth, his final hole. He missed six putts inside 5 feet and shot 73.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ve never felt comfortable on poa. You just miss a few and you\u2019ve got zero confidence,\u201d he said. \u201cI tried to take the break out to still be aggressive like I normally am, but I wasn\u2019t even hitting the hole. I don\u2019t know,. I\u2019m just going to chalk it up to just a bad day. But I\u2019m happy with everything else.”<\/p>\n

\u201cMy only hope is if he doesn\u2019t set his alarm or he somehow starts hitting in the rough on the back nine maybe,\u201d Dahmen said after his 68 that put him six behind, leading the B-flight. \u201cI don\u2019t know. The way he\u2019s playing and what he\u2019s doing, I would be pleased with second place.\u201d<\/p>\n

It’s a big week for Dahmen, who finished outside the top 100 in the FedExCup in the year they reduced full cards from the top 125. He has conditional status and only got into the Farmers Insurance Open because of two courses allowing for a larger field.<\/p>\n

He also has received a sponsor exemption into the WM Phoenix Open next week, so it\u2019s a good time to help turn his fortunes. A strong Sunday would do wonders.<\/p>\n

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Rose, meanwhile, continues to enjoy what he once called his \u201cIndian summer.\u201d<\/p>\n

At age 45, he was the oldest player by seven years on Europe\u2019s winning Ryder Cup team. Even if asked \u2014 if Luke Donald declines a third captaincy \u2014 Rose said last week his focus would be on playing in the 2027 Ryder Cup.<\/p>\n

A victory would move him to as high as No. 4 in the world ranking.<\/p>\n

\u201cJustin is really good at golf right now,\u201d Dahmen said.<\/p>\n

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Rose sets Torrey Pines pace with 62 as Koepka returns to PGA TOUR with 73<\/a>Daily Wrap Up<\/a>\"Image\"Image<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"10H AGO 4 Min Read Daily Wrap Up *:not(style){overflow:hidden;position:absolute;top:0px;right:0px;bottom:0px;left:0px;display:-webkit-box;display:-webkit-flex;display:-ms-flexbox;display:flex;-webkit-box-pack:center;-ms-flex-pack:center;-webkit-justify-content:center;justify-content:center;-webkit-align-items:center;-webkit-box-align:center;-ms-flex-align:center;align-items:center;width:100%;height:100%;}.css-17ygvlf>img,.css-17ygvlf>video{object-fit:cover;}.css-17ygvlf::before{height:0px;content:””;display:block;padding-bottom:56.25%;}]]> Justin Rose hits 81-yard approach to 3 feet, sets…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":442624,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[71],"tags":[427,99],"class_list":{"0":"post-442623","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-golf","8":"tag-golf","9":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/442623","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=442623"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/442623\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/442624"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=442623"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=442623"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=442623"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}