Justin Rose draws inspiration from golf rival and | Golf News

Justin Rose has gained inspiration from sporting greats such as Steve Stricker and Novak Djokovic, pushing previous perceived age limitations with his efficiency. Rose likened to being “kicked in the goolies” due to his close second-place end result behind Rory McIlroy at the Masters.

At 44, Rose continues to show he is a powerhouse on the golf course, having been runner-up in two out of the final three majors and eyeing one other stint at the Ryder Cup this September.

Rose credit his enduring high-level play to the motivation he draws from champions in and out of {the golfing} world. Rose shared his perspective: “I’m getting to that stage in my career where that is the goal now, sort of having pride in performance and trying to buck the trend of what is a natural kind of ageing process.”

“There are things that are more difficult or get more difficult, but you don’t want to kind of believe it. I still think my good is good, which is what I’ve seen this year and that’s the most important thing to see. I’d rather that than the top 20th every week, just to know that if I do put things together, I’m capable of winning. I still believe that.

“Steve Stricker is a very nice instance. I believe he gained perhaps 9 occasions in his 40s. And I believe he did it residing in the Midwest, locking issues up for winter, having a great household, did not sacrifice the world in order to do it.

“He’s a really good role model from that point of view. If you could have a career like his in his 40s, think that’s what I would say is doable, aspirational. If you choose to kind of go all in, there’s other things in your life that suffer, right? So it just depends on the balance of that.

“But in different sports activities, clearly, Djokovic clearly is type of the one pushing greatness in a sport where you do put on out fairly fast. Adam [Scott] is a large benchmark for me and I believe I’m for him. We’re both within a couple weeks of each different in phrases of age.

“If you look at our careers, they’re remarkably similar and good friends as well. “There’s issues that he does rather well that I need to push myself to still be aggressive that approach. I’m sure he appears to be like at my sport and thinks there’s issues that he wants to do to type of compete with me.

“Sergio [Garcia] as well. We’re sort of all like around 1980. We’re the three players that have kind of kept the form and popping our names up on the leaderboard once in a while.

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“I’ve been on tour over right here since 2003. So there was seven years before breaking through. Now 15 years since. It’s fairly wonderful when I believe about it like that. The image I’ve is my little son Leo was sort of messing around in a bunker behind 18. I imply, now you lose him in these bunkers! But back then, you may still see him!”

Addressing the possibility of lingering effects from the Masters, he conceded: “Not consciously. Quite probably. There is stuff to course of there and I believe clearly a lot of people need to keep speaking to you about it.

“It’s just exhausting to put it 100 per cent behind you all the time. I had two weeks off after Hilton Head and felt like I did a little bit of work, but not a ton of work and I felt like there was a little bit of slippage in that period of time.