Justin Rose set a new scoring record at the Farmers Insurance Open at Torrey Pines and completed a baker’s dozen of PGA Tour victories when he went wire-to-wire to seal a seven-stroke win.
The 45-year-old Englishman was already the oldest European ever to win on the PGA Tour after winning the FedEx St Jude Championship in August, so he set that bar even higher, and bested Tiger Woods’ 1999 score of 22-under by a stroke.
“Sorry, T-dub, if you’re watching,” Rose said in his TV interview on the 18th green.”
Rose admitted that he knew exactly where the scoring record stood and once victory was all but secured, it was his sole focus over the closing stretch on Torrey Pines’ South Course after three birdies in a four-hole stretch to close out the front nine saw the six-stroke lead he held overnight extend to a margin that rivalled those regularly posted by the man he was about to overtake.
“I was keenly aware of it, actually,” Rose said with a smile. “It was the only thing I was focused on the last three holes.”
The victory also lifted Rose to number three in the world rankings, leaving only Vijay Singh – 48 when ranked number three in 2008 – able to claim to have held such a lofty position at an older age.
Rose opened with a 62 on the North Course on Thursday and really never let up all week, playing even better on the South Course that has hosted two U.S. Opens. He extended his lead after each round – by one shot, four shots, and six shots, before closing with the seven-shot margin, the largest of his career.
Séamus Power, who was Rose’s nearest challenger at the 36-hole mark, couldn’t get anything going on the final day after a disappointing finish to Saturday’s third round.
The Waterford man shot a closing one-under 71 that left him in a share of 11th place, and he was left to rue his inconsistent approach play in a week where he ranked 72nd in Strokes Gained: Approach and lost over six strokes to the field after ranking first in both Strokes Gained: Around the Green and Strokes Gained: Putting.
Power made just two birdies on the final day – those coming on the par-5 ninth where he got up and down from short of the green, and on the par-4 17th where he chipped in from greenside – and a lone bogey on the par-5 13th, and though the result lifts him to 31st in the FedEx Cup Rankings, he’ll look at it as a missed opportunity as had he held on to his 36-hole position and finished runner-up, he’d have played his way into the first two Signature Events of 2026.
Pierceson Coody, Si Woo Kim and Ryo Hisatsune finished tied for second at 16-under, and Coody, who shot a closing 65 to make a big jump up the leaderboard, has now taken pole position in the Aon Swing 5 and will get the chance to tee it up at the AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am and the Genesis Invitational.
Jake Knapp and Stephan Jaeger were a shot back at -15 and shared fifth place, while Brooks Koepka’s return to PGA Tour action saw him finish in a share of 56th at -4 after a closing two-under round of 70.
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