{"id":100993,"date":"2025-05-14T14:27:10","date_gmt":"2025-05-14T14:27:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/100993\/"},"modified":"2025-05-14T14:27:10","modified_gmt":"2025-05-14T14:27:10","slug":"justin-rose-left-baffled-by-text-messages-about-rory-mcilroys-epic-masters-win","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/100993\/","title":{"rendered":"Justin Rose left &#8216;baffled&#8217; by text messages about Rory McIlroy&#8217;s epic Masters win"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Justin Rose has admitted he&#8217;s been left &#8216;baffled&#8217; by texts about Rory McIlroy&#8217;s epic Masters win at Augusta last month, with the duo set to do battle again at the PGA Championship.<\/p>\n<p>Rose missed out on glory in America via a tense play-off, having pushed his fellow Briton all the way.<\/p>\n<p>The Englishman immediately showed class by hugging his opponent on the course, with McIlroy breaking down after finally completing the career Grand Slam.<\/p>\n<p>Now, ahead of the PGA Championship, Rose has admitted he&#8217;s been left &#8216;baffled&#8217; by text messages about that emotional moment &#8211; while also revealing what he told his rival.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"8825d\" data-rm-shortcode-id=\"21545ca932e9014448fae7ecc6c5844f\" data-rm-shortcode-name=\"rebelmouse-image\" class=\"rm-shortcode rm-lazyloadable-image \" lazy-loadable=\"true\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns='http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg'%20viewBox='0%200%204942%203294'%3E%3C\/svg%3E\" data-runner-src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/justin-rose-rory-mcilroy.jpg\" width=\"4942\" height=\"3294\" alt=\"Justin Rose Rory McIlroy\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Justin Rose has admitted he&#8217;s been left &#8216;baffled&#8217; by texts about Rory McIlroy&#8217;s epic Masters win at Augusta last month, with the duo set to do battle again at the PGA Championship<\/p>\n<p>GETTY<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI have had as many, if not more, messages than after Merion [when he won the US Open in 2013] or Rio [when he won Olympic gold in 2016] and the overwhelming sentiment was congratulations rather than commiserations,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is heartwarming, yeah, but, to be honest, I have been a bit baffled because I really didn\u2019t feel I did anything special.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I just gave a mate a hug on the 18th green and told him it was great to see how special it was for him and you know, just tried to sort of table my own disappointment. That\u2019s all. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Maybe there were some other bigger pictures at play.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>JUST IN:<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gbnews.com\/sport\/football\/gary-neville-nottingham-forest-taiwo-awoniyi-coma\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong\/>Gary Neville apology demanded after Nottingham Forest star Taiwo Awoniyi, 27, placed in induced coma<\/a><\/p>\n<p>He does admit, however, that he felt low after missing out on Masters glory &#8211; having previously come close in 2017.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI wasn\u2019t quite ready to go through all the messages straight away,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I started to on the Monday and Tuesday, because I wanted to say thanks.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut then I was like, \u2018I need a bit of my own time here to process it\u2019. I worked through it and reached the stage where I didn\u2019t feel too despondent. <\/p>\n<p><strong>READ MORE: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gbnews.com\/sport\/football\/gary-lineker-spokesman-israel-post-bbc\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Gary Lineker&#8217;s spokesman responds to controversial Israel post as BBC face calls to sack presenter<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"fd124\" data-rm-shortcode-id=\"f94806f9ea72fb5dff214368c465850c\" data-rm-shortcode-name=\"rebelmouse-image\" class=\"rm-shortcode rm-lazyloadable-image \" lazy-loadable=\"true\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns='http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg'%20viewBox='0%200%205076%203567'%3E%3C\/svg%3E\" data-runner-src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/justin-rose.jpg\" width=\"5076\" height=\"3567\" alt=\"Justin Rose\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Justin Rose has admitted to feeling low after missing out on Masters glory to Rory McIlroy<\/p>\n<p>GETTY<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I don\u2019t really now see it as a loss on that Sunday, because I lost it on Saturday, when I turned a 69 into a 75.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think I played well enough to win. I mean, Rory played well enough to win a lot more comfortably than he did so everyone can say, \u2018hey, I should\u2019ve won, whatever\u2019. But it\u2019s like the level was there to win, which is important.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Rose, when asked what victory would mean to McIlroy, continued: &#8220;How couldn&#8217;t I?<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019d been a storyline for a decade or more and I knew what it meant at large.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>LATEST SPORTS NEWS:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In recent years, the golfing landscape has changed.<\/p>\n<p>The emergence of LIV Golf has posed a threat to the PGA Tour and even now the row between the two organisations continues to escalate.<\/p>\n<p>Some of Rose&#8217;s fellow players have decided to jump ship to Saudi Arabia in order to play less and earn more.<\/p>\n<p>The 44-year-old is, however, delighted that his decision to stay has paid off &#8211; with the veteran in good form as he approaches the upcoming major this weekend.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"eb5b8\" data-rm-shortcode-id=\"2d4a1f043d1327dbb5512b5505a2ce73\" data-rm-shortcode-name=\"rebelmouse-image\" class=\"rm-shortcode rm-lazyloadable-image \" lazy-loadable=\"true\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns='http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg'%20viewBox='0%200%203600%205400'%3E%3C\/svg%3E\" data-runner-src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/1747232830_935_justin-rose.jpg\" width=\"3600\" height=\"5400\" alt=\"Justin Rose\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Justin Rose will be gunning for PGA Championship glory this weekend<\/p>\n<p>GETTY<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat was a primary factor and, hey, it\u2019s almost paid off,&#8221; he said when asked about chasing his dreams.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ve finished runner-up in the last two majors and would I have even been playing if I\u2019d switched across? Who knows? I have no regrets.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Justin Rose has admitted he&#8217;s been left &#8216;baffled&#8217; by texts about Rory McIlroy&#8217;s epic Masters win at Augusta&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":100994,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4106],"tags":[2826,12,93,79,16,15,978,727],"class_list":{"0":"post-100993","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-golf","8":"tag-golf","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-sport","11":"tag-sports","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom","14":"tag-us","15":"tag-us-news"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114506658208562249","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100993","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=100993"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100993\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/100994"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=100993"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=100993"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=100993"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}