Justin Rose overcame a formidable field and weathered nearly 10 hours of delays and suspensions since Thursday to capture the wet and wild Zurich Classic of New Orleans at TPC Louisiana.
Rose played bogey-free golf over his last 66 holes — including 30 on Sunday — en route to a final round 66 and a course-record 266 (22-under), good for his seventh victory on the PGA TOUR.
After climbing to 15th in the FedExCup, he heads to next week’s World Golf Championships-Cadillac Match Play at TPC Harding Park in San Francisco and THE PLAYERS Championship at TPC Sawgrass in Ponte Vedra Beach, Florida, on May 7-10 with momentum and feeling good about his game.
«This is a great shot in the arm of confidence and I just got to keep it going,» said Rose, currently the ninth-ranked player in the world. «It obviously gets me up there in everything I want to be up there in; a boost in the (Official Golf) World Ranking, a boost in the FedExCup, a huge boost in confidence.
«Now I can target the major championships all the way through the summer without having to chase anything in between. It’s going to be great.»
