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• Full Name: Justin Peter Rose
• Date of Birth: July 30th 1980
• Place of Birth: Johannesburg, South Africa
• Nationality: English
• Married: December 2006 to Kate (nee Phillips)
  
• Height: 6ft 3in (1.89m)
• Weight: 12st 11lb (179lb) (82kg)
• Turned Pro: 1998
  

Career

Amateur wins (4)

• 1995 English Boys Stroke Play Championship,
  
• 1995 McGregor Trophy
• 1997 St Andrews Links Trophy
• 1998 Peter McEvoy Trophy

Professional wins (7)

European Tour

• 2002 Dunhill Championship,
• 2002 Victor Chandler British Masters
• 2006 Australian Masters (part of European Tour)
• 2007 Volvo Masters

Sunshine Tour

• 2002 Nashua Masters

Japan Golf Tour

• 2002 The Crowns

Others

• 2004 Bilt Skins (unofficial money event in India)

Many golf fans will remember the The Open Championship in 1998, when 17 year old amateur Justin Rose holed from the rough at the 18th for birdie and a tie for fourth place.

Shortly after being thrust into the public eye for that remarkable feat in the British Open Rose turned professional, however all was not plain sailing , he struggled at first and missed 21 consecutive cuts.

Eventually the dismal run came to an end and Rose became firmly established on the European Tour, his first professional win came in 2002 when he captured the Dunhill Championship in South Africa, this was soon followed by victory in the Victor Chandler British Masters and two further events also in the same year.

2003 saw Justin rise to 33 in the Official World Golf Rankings, 2004 saw him mainly playing on the US PGA Tour, however his form took a dive and he slipped out of the top 50 in the World Rankings.

In 2005 Rose chose to quit Europe and play exclusively on the PGA, unfortunately for him he was still finishing well down the field and eventually dropped from the top 100, this made him announce that he was planning to return to European competition, however fortune turned in his favour in August 2005 when he lead the Buick Championship after 54 holes eventually finishing third. A couple more decent results followed in the Autumn of 2005 and Justin remained on the PGA circuit.

2006 brought a good result in the Canadian Open, 2nd place at the Disney Resort tournament and in November a long awaited win in the Australian Masters, to his first title for four years.

The good form continued into 2007 a top 5 finish at the 2007 Masters put him up to the dizzy heights of 26 in the World Rankings. Second place at the 2007 BMW PGA Championship, lost playoff, put him into the top twenty of the World Rankings for the first time. a

Rose won the European Tour Order of Merit title for 2007 when he capped the season with a playoff win in the Volvo Masters.

Justin Rose is currently the top ranked European golfer at sixth place in the World Rankings.

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