Rose Looking For A Turkish Airlines Winning Double Delight In Returning To World No. 1

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Regnum Caya Resort, Belek, Turkey …

Justin Rose is not only looking to successfully defend his Turkish Airlines Open title but also return to World No. 1.

Rose went to World No. 1 in losing a play-off to American Keegan Bradley in the PGA Tour’s FedEx Cup BMW Championship in Philadelphia.

However, the Englishman held the title for just two weeks ahead of Dustin Johnson returning to the top of the rankings while triple major winning Brooks Koepka currently is rated the game’s best.

“It would be a great doublewhammy to win this week and then also go back to World No. 1,” said Rose.

“I set many goals between now and the end of the year. Last week I had the opportunity to defend and in Indonesia I had the opportunity to defend, as well as here. It is something I haven’t been able to do many my career and that was a goal, certainly for that collective three events.

“I said a while back, that I wanted to get to world No. 1 by winning golf tournaments, and I got there by finishing second at the BMW a month or so ago.

“This would be, yeah, a great place to knock off two big goals of mine, which is to get back to world No. 1 obviously, because once you get a taste for it, it’s quite nice, and secondly, to defend a title would be a special feeling, too. Yes, I’m keenly aware of the situation.”

Rose was speaking within the conference room of the stunning Regnum Caya Hotel and was asked if in setting out in season 2018 reaching the pinnacle of the rankings was among his New Year goals.

“Do you know, I very rarely set outcome goals, like I want to win a major, I want to do this, I want to get to world No. 1,”he said.

“I really focus on my game. I focus on the areas that I think I can improve my game, and if I look back to maybe 2017, anyway, a couple of years ago, my team and I put a plan together for what we felt I had to do to get to world No. 1, and a big part of that was my putting.

“So it’s not about just improve your putting, but it’s how you go about that. We built a bit of a process. I felt I could really improve between three and eight feet, so I built some putting drills to help me improve that. And then this year, on the PGA Tour any way, where the stats are quite robust and you can look into it a bit deeper, I was No. 1 four to eight feet on
Tour.

“So that’s how I choose to set my goals, really, is areas of my game rather than results. I feel like the results take care of themselves from that point of view.

“But as early as May this year, people started talking to me about world No. 1. There was a mathematical
chance at the Players Championship, I could have got to world No. 1. That surprised me. I didn’t realise it was that close to me, really, and once it was on the cards, it became more of a goal and once I achieved it was a milestone moment in my career and one that I’m proud of for sure.”



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