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July 1, 2023

Justin Rose

The Belfry Hotel & Resort

Quick Quotes

Q. Give us your assessment of that today.

JUSTIN ROSE: Don't know, really. Yeah, three back going into tomorrow, that's I guess what I've got to think about now. It was tricky there. Obviously the lead is 7. This golf course is doing what it should do every single day. You go out, and if you play really, really well, you can make a big run. It's certainly not easy.

I think I did a good job of hanging in there, around 9, 10, 11, 12, 13-ish, and no, listen, my wedge play today, I think if I think about it quickly -- obviously I haven't had a chance to really debrief and have a think about my right now.

But I feel like every time I had a wedge in my hand, I turned scoring opportunities into a couple bogeys, and I think that was like the big change of what could have been a decent round into a poor round.

Q. You won this championship 21 years ago at the age of 21. How would it feel to win it 21 years later?

JUSTIN ROSE: It would be nice to double down. Obviously, yeah, support's been great this week. It would be fantastic. I'm in a position where there's so many guys ahead of me that are on 7-under that one of those guys is going to go out and play well tomorrow. It means that it's going to take a pretty low one from myself or the chasing pack to get it done but maybe something along the lines of round one, might have a chance.

Q. 65 in round one. If you shoot another one of those tomorrow, you'll be right there, I'm sure.

JUSTIN ROSE: We'll see. I've give it a go.