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Justin Rose won the 2024 Farmers Insurance Open at Torrey Pines on Sunday, finishing at 25-under 263 to beat Alex Norrdin by two strokes. He turned it on with three birdies over the next four holes, including one at the par-3 eighth hole that got him to 23-under and another at the par-5 ninth hole when he canned a 35-foot putt that enabled him to make the turn at 24-under. Rose gave a shot back with a bogey at the par-4 12th, then enjoyed the walk in with pars over the final six holes.
Incredibly, Rose is the tournament’s frist wire-to-wire winner since Scottie Scheffler won the 2022 Phoenix Open. The Farmers Insurance Open hasn’t had a wire-to-wire winner as 1955 when Tommy Bolt won the San Diego Open, played at Mission Valley Country Club. Bolt actually won the event wire-to-wire twice in three years, also earning a victory in 1953.
There could not be a bigger contrast between the two golfers.
bolt’s nickname was “Terrible Tommy,” and he was known for throwing and breaking clubs as much as he was for hitting memorable shots with them.
Newspaper stories noted after Bolt’s 1955 win that “Tommy’s explosive temperament was in complete control. Not once did he throw a club or indicate in any way that he was irked – except for a few words with some overzealous cameramen the first day.”
About the most demonstrative Rose has been was when he kicked his bag at TPC Sawgrass and when he hit it with a club at the Genesis Scottish Open. The incidents were separated by a decade.
Then again, the setting at Torrey Pines makes it pretty difficult to be in a bad mood.
“This has always been one of my favourite tournaments to come to,” Rose said, “whether it just be the San Diego area, the Del Mar area, or the golf course itself.… The views are stunning. It’s the kind of place you play on a day,on a week like this,you do stop to smell the roses.Sorry to throw that out.”
Exclusive club
Justin Rose is the 10th golfer to win the Farmers Insurance Open multiple times. Here’s a look at the list:
7 wins – Tiger Woods (2013, 2008, 2007, 2006, 2005, 2003, 1999)
3 wins – Phil Mickelson (2001, 2000, 1993)
2 wins – Tommy Bolt (1955, 1953)
2 wins – Arnold Palmer (1961, 1957)
2 wins – J.C.Snead (1976, 1975)
2 wins – Tom Watson (1980, 1977)
2 wins – Steve Pate (1992, 1988)
2 wins – Jason Day (2018, 2015)
2 wins – Brandt Snedeker (2016, 2012)
2 wins – Justin Rose (2024, 2019)
In the money
A decade-by-decade look at the winner’s purse over the Farmers Insurance Open’s 75-year history:
2024: Justin Rose – $1,755,000
2016: Brandt Snedeker – $1,170,000
2006: Tiger Woods
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