THE PLAYERS CHAMPIONSHIP

March 11, 2022

Justin Rose

TPC Sawgrass

Quick Quotes

Q. Talk about the day so far.

JUSTIN ROSE: Yeah, I mean, listen, I think we got some golf in. Obviously waking up this morning wasn't quite sure what to expect with the forecast and what have you, but conditions were relatively playable for most of the round there, a couple heavy downpours. It does make it difficult out there for sure. It felt like I had a couple of balls fly a little squirrelly off the driver face. When you get that moisture between the ball and the club it's always a little disconcerting. But obviously with the golf course being soft, if you do hit a good shot, it does lead to a good birdie opportunity.

Shame to not finish up at least one round in the books, and now it's just a bit of a waiting game. I think huge band of rain working its way through potentially. If the golf course is unplayable now, it doesn't look like there's much setup for the next 12 hours or so.

Q. Talk about the patience of entering a day like today knowing that the weather is going to be difficult throughout this weekend and you just kind of brace for it?

JUSTIN ROSE: Yeah, I think for sure. Just be patient. You are going to make a couple of mistakes. When you do make a mistake, just try not to compound it. There are birdies out there so just kind of keep patient.

I felt like the only thing I didn't do well today was the speed on the greens. That led to a three-putt. Those are frustrating things. You want to try and keep those at bay because there are going to be moments out there where you do catch a bad lie in the rough and you can't bounce the ball up to the greens. You've got to limit the silly mistakes.

Q. Specifically about your game what's working well?

JUSTIN ROSE: I think what's working well is patience really and just managing my game out there. I putted it pretty nice the first sort of six, seven holes of my round today and got myself I think it was 4-under through six actually. Obviously I'm back to a couple under, made a couple mistakes out there, but yeah, just got to kind of wait for that run like I did early on in my round. The birdies are out there.

Q. What are you going to do as you wait?

JUSTIN ROSE: Going to have a coffee, kind of keep the body moving. There will probably be lots of like mini little workouts and mini lunches -- mini mealtimes and mini workouts for about the next 12 hours.