English: Justin Rose, English golfer (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
South African born Justin Rose’s love and passion for golf started when his father, Ken, gave him a plastic golf club at the age of eleven months.
At the age of five the family moved to England where he started playing more seriously.
His first professional win came in 2002 at the Dunhill Championship in South Africa.
He amassed three further victories that same year, but his first win in the United States only came in 2010 when he won the Jack Nicklaus Memorial.
On Sunday, Rose became the first Englishman to win the US Open after Tony Jacklin did so in 1970. He paid tribute to his father – who died of leukaemia in 2002 – as he spoke of his victory.
Even though Rose only spent five years of his life in South Africa, we are proud to say that the latest US Open champion was born here and we would like to claim him as one of our own.
High Five,
Ed
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