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Justin Rose has finished runner up on 3 occasions at the Masters, with painful playoff losses to Sergio Garcia in 2017 and last year to Rory McIlroy. Ahead of this years tournament he gave another classy answer on how he deals with adversity:
“I kind of realized that even before I won a major. I knew I was going to win some; I knew I was going to lose some. I kind of wanted to not get in my way too early, and I kind of realized when the opportunity presents myself to win a major, don't make it too important in the moment.
“Also, I kind of realized that you can't skip through a career without a little bit of heartache and heartbreak, no chance. If you're going to be willing to win them, you've got to be willing to kind of be on the wrong side of it as well.
“The key is showing up. The key is to try to be as free as you can in those moments. Yeah, you kind of have to hope a little bit along the way that it's your day. There's definitely been -- it could have been my day in a couple of major championships that I wouldn't have had to have done anything different really to be the winner as well. Hopefully with that mindset, keep chipping away, my day might still happen where a little bit of something goes my way.
“The point is you've got to put yourself there. That's the hard part. All we can do as players is to focus on our game, focus on our skill set, and make the odds in our favor the best we can. Sometimes the ultimate result, yeah, sometimes it's in your control, but sometimes there's a lot of other factors and little bits of movement that all have to kind of sync up.
“The better player you are, the more chances you're going to have and the more you're going to win.”
This is such a great quote and it sums up perfectly why it’s so hard to win golf tournaments, especially major championships.
Justin comes to Augusta National off the back of a T13 at The Players and a wire to wire win at The Farmers to climb him upto 9th in the World Rankings.
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