Justin Rose is part of the Cadillac Championship field at Donald Trump’s golf course in Miami this week.
Rose has already won on the PGA Tour this season, and his game has been in very good shape.
He will be hopeful of winning again this week at the Cadillac Championship, despite having just switched irons.
Rose shocked everyone by announcing he will be using McLaren irons for the first time in competition this week at President Donald Trump‘s golf course in Miami.
Justin Rose is well-known as one of the premium iron players in the game, so he has taken a big risk by signing up with a brand that have only just began dipping their toes into the golf manufacturing business.
However, he surely wouldn’t have made the move if he didn’t think it would help him improve as a golfer.
Now it’s up to Rose to prove that out on the golf course this week at the Cadillac Championship.
The field gathered this week at Trump National Doral is an incredibly strong one, in spite of some big-name players pulling out of the event.
The Blue Monster, as the golf course is known, is said to be in fantastic shape ahead of the fifth Signature Event of the PGA Tour season.
Rose responded when asked to give his verdict on the setup and condition of President Trump’s course.
“I feel, I mean, obviously there was a lot of changes, and then there’s been some softening of the change, I think, right, in the last few years,“ Rose said.
“The course is playing really nicely today. There wasn’t a ton of wind which I think is a huge factor on this golf course.
“The rough is, I would call it in the fair department, for sure. Obviously you can get some fliers, get some balls that sit down, get some tricky shots out there all the time.
“But I feel like today, for example, some of the balls were lying okay in the rough, you felt like you always had a chance to get it up and around the green.
“Greens are relatively big, especially when the wind is not blowing as much. But obviously there’s a lot of little sections to the greens that, as the weather gets a little tougher, or should you get some gusty winds you kind of, I think incrementally this course gets harder and harder.
“Today it was a nice walk and played relatively okay.“
The Blue Monster is a par-72 layout and stretches out to around 7,739 yards.
It is only 26 yards shorter than the longest golf course on the PGA Tour – the South Course at Torrey Pines.
The layout consists of four par-fives, four par-threes and 10 par-fours.
You can pay for the privilege to play the Blue Monster, but it won’t come cheap, with rounds costing between $400 and $500, depending on the season.