Justin Rose will not be playing in the Truist Championship over the weekend.
The Truist Championship began on Thursday, and Rose opened up with rounds of 70 and 77, leaving him at seven-over-par and dead last in the field.
The 44-year-old Englishman has enjoyed somewhat of a renaissance this season.
Rose has an impressive three top 10s to his name in eight PGA Tour events so far in 2025, including his memorable 2nd place finish at The Masters after losing in a play-off to eventual winner Rory McIlroy.
After losing to McIlroy, Rose shared his immense pride having come so close to winning The Masters.
He has certainly rolled back the years this season, and he would have headed into the Truist Championship with genuine ambitions of winning the golf tournament.
However, the 2013 US Open champion will not be playing the remaining two days at Philadelphia Cricket Club.
Justin Rose statement after Truist Championship withdrawal
Rose was well off form during the first two days of play in Philadelphia.
His long game deserted him whilst his short game was nowhere near sharp enough.
Rose’s first two rounds at the Philadelphia Cricket Club certainly weren’t great preparation for the upcoming PGA Championship at Quail Hollow.
He definitely didn’t look like himself, and now we all know why.
Rose took to his official X account to explain the reason why he has withdrawn from the Truist Championship before the start of day three.
Hopefully he makes a full recovery in time for the second major of 2025 next week.
Why Rose caused controversy just before play-off with McIlroy at The Masters
Rose finished his final round at Augusta National around 30 minutes before McIlroy tapped in for bogey on the 18th hole.
And the Englishman came under fire for the amount of time he made the Northern Irishman wait on the 18th tee ahead of the first play-off hole.
However, a week after The Masters had finished, Rose’s caddie Mark Fulcher insisted that that was not an intentional ploy from Rose:
“Well, it’s funny. It sends me back to the play-off with Sergio. I remember coming off the 18th green and we were rushed. I remember being so rushed and not speaking at all to Rosie and him not speaking to me. We got to the back of the 18th tee and got on there, and we hadn’t really thought or discussed. Ironically, and I don’t know quite how this happened, I actually wrote in my yardage book on the 18th at the beginning of the week – ‘if we get in a play-off, calm, slow, talk about it’. So, I wrote it in there. As he was signing his card I showed him that, and said this is what we need to do now. We got there nice and slow, and it wasn’t deliberate, it was in no way at all to put Rory off because Rory had gone straight there. But it was just something we learned from the Sergio moment years before. Obviously it didn’t pay off, but it certainly paid off as far as a beautiful drive and a beautiful second shot.”
It mattered little to McIlroy in the end, after he birdied the 18th hole and won the green jacket for the first time in his career.
And Rose will be hoping that he gets at least one more opportunity to do the same thing before he hangs up his clubs.
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