NEWTOWN SQUARE, Pa. (AP) — Justin Rose’s second-round scorecard had a little bit of everything at the PGA Championship. He had four bogeys, three birdies, two double bogeys and was in jeopardy of missing the cut after ending up in the thick rough 25 yards from the pin on his final hole.Standing a few feet from the edge of a fairway bunker, Rose dug deep with his wedge, and his golf ball took three small bounces on the green and tracked into the hole for an eagle 3. The spectacular shot put the 45-year-old Englishman near the cut line at 3-over par and likely propelled him into the weekend in his 24th appearance at the championship. The cut was likely to be in the 4-over par range.Rose is a Philly favorite after winning the 2013 U.S. Open at nearby Merion Golf Club, and he has a good history at Aronimink, where he won his second PGA Tour title in the 2010 AT&T National. He lost to Keegan Bradley in a playoff in Newtown Square in the 2018 BMW Championship.
Rose’s found Friday was in many ways fitting for a golfer whose career has been long been defined by many highs and lows and gritty, grind-it-out performances. He missed the first 20 cuts of his career, then became a major and Olympic champion and has enjoyed a mid-40s resurgence that has yielded multiple runner-up finishes in majors in recent years.
