Former world no.1 and Ryder Cup legend Justin Rose talks completely to Golf Information concerning the determination he and his spouse Kate made to help a collection of occasions geared toward girls professionals within the UK.
That got here to be often known as the Rose Women Sequence, and why they’re persevering with to champion creating aggressive alternatives for ladies golfers by means of that collection and the Rose Women Open, the third version of which is happening at Brocket Corridor subsequent month and lacking out at Royal Troon in The Open.
The Rose Women Sequence clearly proved an important lifeline for British girls skilled golfers when it launched in 2020. I feel it was Liz Younger that first received the ball rolling, however what prompted you and your spouse, Kate, to get behind the enterprise?
It was after we heard about Liz Younger’s thought of a roll up at her membership throughout lock down that Kate picked up the cellphone to Liz to ask her what we might do to assist.
This was our unique motivation for beginning the Sequence, to easily to present the feminine gamers the possibility to nonetheless play competitively through the pandemic.
The truth that I used to be in a position to play a full schedule once more after solely a month out, however this wasn’t the identical expertise for the Women appeared unfair.
To be trustworthy, firstly we noticed it as merely a ‘cease hole’, one thing to assist the women recreation and attempt to degree issues up on the time.
From there, it was clear there was an actual disparity between the boys’s and girls’s Excursions and the Sequence went someway to bridging this hole.
I suppose it will have simple to have stepped away from it as soon as issues returned to regular, however you’ve continued to help the collection underneath a brand new early season format. How essential is it to proceed to present younger and rising feminine professionals these aggressive alternatives?
We’ll proceed the Rose Women Sequence so long as there may be demand for it, we evaluate it every year and we’ve got continued it due to the suggestions we obtain every year.
The gamers actually recognize the chance to play a condensed Sequence firstly of the Season; the timing works effectively as a result of it suits in with the LETAS and LET schedules.
They take pleasure in having aggressive occasions on house soil; the chance to play programs they may not usually have entry to and in addition the possibility to compete for the most important prize fund accessible for a one-day occasion (no matter gender).
For lots of the gamers, the Sequence acts as a warm-up forward of the season beginning in earnest and offers them the possibility to play competitively.
Plenty of the gamers are these simply beginning out on the LETAS, or common Tour gamers desirous to gauge the place their recreation is at forward of the season to assist with their coaching and preparation.
We additionally give invite spots to a number of of the highest amateurs within the nation by means of our partnership with each the R&A and England Golf, plus we give all our 12 junior golf finalists from the Justin Rose Telegraph Junior Golf championship invitations to play within the occasions for expertise, growth and enjoying alternatives.
In addition to the chance to play competitively, the RLS offers gamers the possibility to be seen and obtain the publicity they deserve, which is one in every of our key goals in elevating consciousness and help of the feminine recreation.
What’s the Rose Women Sequence’ relationship with the LET’s Entry Sequence and what’s your long-term dedication to supporting the collection?
We created the Rose Women Open to present the feminine professionals a event within the UK, so one other alternative to play competitively; alternatives to be seen and obtain the publicity they deserve.
Initially lots of people have been confused and thought the Rose Women Open was the Grand Remaining of the Rose Women Serie due to the way it was structured firstly.
Nevertheless, the Rose Women Open is a totally separate occasion to the Sequence, it’s a three-day event together with a pro-am, and it’s a stand-alone occasion on the LETAS.
The Rose Women Open has enabled us to supply a real pathway to the Women European Tour – our 2023 champion Chiara Tamburlini is testomony to this – she made a unbelievable begin to her debut LET season with a win on the Joburg Women Open in April.
What made you select Brocket Corridor because the venue to host the Rose Women Open? Is there something particular concerning the course or the arrange on the membership that makes it an amazing event venue?
Brocket Corridor has been the event venue for the previous two years and we return once more in 2024, the course has proved a worthy take a look at for the gamers every year and is in nice situation at the moment, we’re trying ahead to seeing how the gamers get on in September.
Will you be internet hosting teaching clinics and presenting the trophy as per earlier years?
I will likely be internet hosting a junior golf clinic once more for rivals from the Justin Rose Telegraph Junior Golf Championship and a few native Woman Guides, we had a whole lot of enjoyable and an amazing prove final 12 months, so I’m trying ahead to seeing all of the juniors once more this 12 months.
Each Kate and I will likely be there on the ultimate day. We take pleasure in assembly the gamers, having an opportunity to talk to them and get suggestions.
We additionally love being there for the end to congratulate the champion and current them with the trophy.
Switching tack, it was nice to see Tommy Fleetwood problem for the gold medal in Paris, in the end coming away with a silver medal. Wanting again to 2016 in Rio, the place does profitable your gold medal rank amongst your profession achievements?
Profitable gold in Rio in 2016 was an unimaginable expertise. The medal sits alongside the US Open trophy in my cupboard.
It was cool to be uncovered to a wider viewers and really feel such as you have been representing one thing greater than your self, much like the Ryder Cup.
It was nice to tune in on Sunday and see Tommy come so shut; you can see how a lot it meant to him. I cherish these emotions vastly.
You got here fairly near including a second main title to your CV at The Open at Troon. It was clearly robust to get pipped by Xander Schauffele, however how do you look again at your efficiency that week?
That Open week proved I can nonetheless compete in opposition to the very best gamers on this planet. Situations weren’t simple at instances, and also you needed to go to a different degree to handle and persevere by means of them, and I’m actually proud of the way in which I dealt with that.
I do really feel like I left all the things on the market, however Xander performed unbelievable golf on the Sunday and deserved to win.
It has given me one thing to construct on for the FedEx Play-offs, the remainder of the DP World Tour season, and into the 2025 season. The T2 end will get me into all 4 Majors subsequent 12 months, so I can lock in these weeks to try to go one higher than The Open this 12 months.
Given that you simply have been 66th on this planet rating, I’m positive lots of people have been stunned that you simply needed to pre-qualify for The Open. How essential was it to maintain your run of appearances in The Open going, and the way relieved are you that you simply received’t should undergo all that once more subsequent 12 months?
Clearly, Open qualifying wasn’t the best option to get into The Open, nevertheless it was a no brainer for me to try to qualify that approach.
It was nice to be again at Burnham and Berrow, the place I had received the Carris Trophy in 1995, so it was a little bit of a nostalgic journey for me.
Nevertheless it was extra than simply qualifying for The Open; it was about giving myself the possibility to win it.
It jogged my memory to not take these Main championships without any consideration, and I’ll do not forget that as I am going into The Open and the opposite Majors subsequent 12 months for positive.
This was your 21st Open Championship. Of all of the Majors, the stats present that it has been the least profitable for you by way of outcomes, with two runner-up finishes and two different prime 10s. Do you are feeling like The Open has been the harder of the 4 Majors for you, and in that case, what do you place that all the way down to?
Look, it’s exhausting to say. I really like The Open; it’s my favorite Main, it’s the one I actually need to win. I feel I proved to myself at Troon that I’ve the flexibility to win it.
The Open tends to have the hardest circumstances of the 4 Majors, and people who handle the circumstances the very best have a tendency to seek out themselves in competition.
I feel that Saturday spherical was essential to me in that sense. The circumstances have been the worst they’d been all week, however I managed to grind actually exhausting and preserve inching my approach ahead within the event, whereas others let the circumstances get the higher of them and fell away from competition.
So, I’ll undoubtedly take that ahead to try to go one higher subsequent 12 months.
Lastly, it looks like newbie gamers are popping out of the gate, primarily through the US school system, able to win top-level Tour occasions nowadays. Given your time once more, is that one thing you may need thought of, or was it all the time the plan to present school a miss and throw your self straight into the professional recreation?
The US school system is unbelievable; it’s churning out world-class expertise with ease. The likes of Collin Morikawa, Viktor Hovland and, extra just lately, Ludvig Aberg, have all come out of school not solely able to compete on the PGA and LPGA excursions, however at Majors and Ryder Cups as effectively.
I additionally assume the ladies’s recreation is benefiting massively from the faculty system. Somebody like Rose Zhang was a celebrity earlier than she had even made her skilled debut; then she received her first occasion on tour, represented Workforce USA within the Solheim Cup, and now on the Olympics.
I feel it’s completely one thing all younger golfers ought to critically contemplate. The universities have nice coaches and amenities that actually elevate the sport of younger golfers and prime them to change into elite professionals.
Rose Women Open @ Brocket Corridor, September 6-8
This 12 months’s Rose Women Open has attracted a full discipline of 108 gamers from everywhere in the UK and Europe who will tackle the Melbourne Course over three days from September 6-8.
Justin and Kate Rose will likely be presenting the trophy to the event winner on the Sunday afternoon following conclusion of play.
For extra data on the LET Entry Sequence’ Rose Women Open and to register for free tickets to attend any or the entire event rounds, and for particulars of nice worth hospitality packages, please go to roseladiesopen.co.uk.
