Call it deja vu all over again, but Justin Rose came into the 2025 Masters Tournament looking like he was going to absolutely blitz the field, much in the same manner that he did just four years ago when he was the first-round leader. He jumped out to a three-shot lead after the first round. Unfortunately, that lead didn't hold as strong as The Masters wore on.
In the second round, his margin at the top of the leaderboard was trimmed to just one shot. But the end of the third round and heading into Sunday, he was seven back of the lead after shooting 2-over on Saturday. Hee seemed to be out of the mix to win The Masters. But Augusta National always has a way of making things interesting even when it seems like they won't be.
Rose came out firing on all cylinders again in the final round of The Masters and, with a stud birdie on the 16th hole coinciding with Rory McIlroy making an inexplicable double bogey on the 13th, he found himself tied for the lead. And that led to everyone wondering if Rose could do it at 44 years old.
Has Justin Rose ever won The Masters?
Justin Rose has never won The Masters after playing the major championship event 19 times coming into the 2025 tournament. However, that doesn't mean that Rose hasn't enjoyed an immense amount of success at Augusta, nor does it meean that he's a stranger to the top of the leaderboard, especially early in the tournament.
Rose has notched six Top 10 finishes as well as 11 Top 20 finishes at The Masters in his career. Furthermore, he was the runner-up after losing to Sergio Garcia in a playoff back in 2017 and was the first-round leader by three strokes in 2021 before falling back to the field in Hideki Matsuyama's historic victory.
Justin Rose Masters finishes in his career
Here's a look year-by-year in reverse chronological order of Justin Rose's finishes at The Masters.
Year | Justin Rose's Masters Finishing Position |
|---|---|
2024 Masters | Missed Cut |
2023 Masters | T-16th |
2022 Masters | Missed Cut |
2021 Masters | 7th |
2020 Masters | T-23rd |
2019 Masters | Missed Cut |
2018 Masters | T-12th |
2017 Masters | 2nd (Lost in Playoff) |
2016 Masters | T-10th |
2015 Masters | T-2nd |
2014 Masters | T-14th |
2013 Masters | T-25th |
2012 Masters | T-8th |
2011 Masters | T-11th |
2009 Masters | T-20th |
2008 Masters | T-36th |
2007 Masters | T-5th |
2004 Masters | T-22nd |
2003 Masters | T-39th |
The hot start for Rose at the 2025 Masters Tournament certainly caught some people by surprise given that the Englishman missed the cut at Augusta in two of the last three trips here. However, given his track record and all of the high finishes, he's clearly comfortable on this golf course and has the ability to go quite low, most recently evidenced in the aforementioned first-round lead in 2021 when he fired off a 7-under 65 to start the tournament with the closest player sitting a 3-under at the time.
And it's also worth noting that, while he does have two missed cuts in three years, he also has two Top 16 finishes in the last four years. It's not about consistency when the pop years are that good.
Has Justin Rose ever won a major championship?
While Rose hasn't won The Masters before, he has won a major championship, capturing victory at the 2013 U.S. Open at Merion for his lone major win. In some of the most brutal conditions in recent U.S. Open history in which no player finished at even-par or better for the tournament, Rose was the steady-eddy who outlasted Jason Day and Phil Mickelson with no round worse than 1-over for the week to get his maiden and, to this day, only major championship triumph.
Having said that, his one victory doesn't mention the fact that he's also finished runner-up at a major four separate times. He did so at The Masters in both 2015 and 2017 but also at The Open Championship in 2018 and again last year in 2024. Furthermore, his first-ever major as an amateur was the 1998 Open Championship when he finished T4, registering a Top 5 before turning pro.
How many wins does Justin Rose have in his golf career?
While Rose only has the one major championship victory leading into the 2025 Masters Tournament, he has 25 wins as a professional worldwide in his career, including 11 times hoisting the trophy on the PGA Tour, the most recent of which was a three-stroke victory over Brendon Todd and Brandon Wu at the 2023 AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am.
Additionally, he also has 11 wins on the European/DP World Tour, which is actually when his first win came as a professional at the 2002 Dunhill Championship. His last victory came at the Turkish Airlines Open in 2018.