{"id":61588,"date":"2026-09-05T01:11:21","date_gmt":"2026-09-05T01:11:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/61588\/"},"modified":"2026-09-05T01:11:21","modified_gmt":"2026-09-05T01:11:21","slug":"justin-rose-makes-hole-in-one-during-tour-championship-final-round-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/61588\/","title":{"rendered":"Justin Rose makes hole-in-one during Tour Championship final round"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Mark SchlabachAug 31, 2026, 04:59 AM<\/p>\n

Close<\/a>Senior college football writer
\nAuthor of seven books on college football
\nGraduate of the University of Georgia<\/p>\n

Multiple Authors<\/p>\n

ATLANTA — Justin Rose<\/a> made easy work of the par-3 ninth hole at East Lake Golf Club, dunking his tee shot for an ace from 208 yards during Sunday’s final round at the Tour Championship.<\/p>\n

The hole has been the second-most difficult this week at East Lake.<\/p>\n

After watching his soaring tee shot slam its way into the hole, Rose threw both arms in the air and mimicked a slam dunk in basketball. He high-fived playing partner Si Woo Kim<\/a> and Kim’s caddie, Manny Villegas<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Rose, 46, made up for two early bogeys with the fourth hole-in-one of his career to get back to even par in the round. He was tied for 13th at 8 under, six shots behind co-leaders Scottie Scheffler<\/a> and Viktor Hovland<\/a>.<\/p>\n

With an intimidating uphill tee shot over a lake, the ninth had produced a scoring average of .077 above par this week, trailing only the opening hole. There were only three birdies before Rose’s ace, along with 88 pars, 11 bogeys and one double-bogey.<\/p>\n

It was the first time a PGA Tour golfer made an ace on the ninth since Xander Schauffele<\/a> had one in the third round in 2019.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mark SchlabachAug 31, 2026, 04:59 AM CloseSenior college football writer Author of seven books on college football Graduate…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":58727,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[1146],"class_list":["post-61588","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-justin-rose","tag-justin-rose"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61588","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=61588"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61588\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/58727"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61588"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61588"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61588"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}