After opening with a 10-under-par 62 to take the first-round lead, Justin Rose never looked back, winning the Farmers Insurance Open by seven shots.
Rose became the first wire-to-wire winner at Torrey Pines in San Diego, Calif., since Tommy Bolt in 1955, posting a tournament-record 23-under-par total. That eclipsed the 22-under mark set by George Burns in 1987 and Tiger Woods in 1999.
“What a week from start to finish,” said Rose, 45, who earned $1.728 million for his 13th career title and moved from No. 10 to No. 3 in the Official World Golf Ranking. “I just got really disciplined this week. Obviously I was playing well but I just thought the way I managed my game, the way I thought about things, the way I was patient at the right time, the way I was able to absorb a little bit of the odd mistake by holing the right putt at the right time. There was a lot of mental maturity from a strategic golf point of view out there.”
Rose’s Lead Kept Building
After taking a one-shot lead over Justin Lower with his 62 in the first round, Rose shot a 65 to take a four-shot lead over Seamus Power. He followed that with a 68 for a six-shot lead over Joel Dahmen heading into the final round.
The field had no hope of catching Rose after he birdied three holes on his front nine Sunday. A bogey on his back nine gave him a 70 and a seven-shot margin over three golfers at 16 under – Si Woo Kim (69), Ryo Hisatsune (69) and Pierceson Coody, who had the day’s low round at 65 with nine birdies and two bogeys.
Jake Knapp (67) and Stephan Jaeger (68) tied for fifth at 15 under.
Koepka’s Return to the PGA Tour
Making his first start in a non-major on the PGA Tour since the 2022 WGC-Dell Technologies Match Play via the Returning Member Program, former LIV golfer and nine-time Tour winner Brooks Koepka finished tied for 56th Koepka made the cut on the number at 3 under with rounds of 73-68. He finished at 4 under with rounds of 73 and 70.
Happy to be back on the PGA Tour, Koepka said the biggest difference “is I feel like I probably don’t know about half the guys. The last four years there’s been a good bit of turnover. It will be a fun year just getting to know everybody.
Dahmen, who shot a final-round 73 to finish tied for seventh, had three eagles on par-5s en route to a second-round 63.
Xander Schauffele missed the cut by one shot, ending the Tour’s longest active streak of 72 consecutive made cuts. His previous missed cut was the 2022 Masters. World No. 1 Scottie Scheffler, with 65 consecutive made cuts, now has the longest active streak.
Past Champs Return to Phoenix Open
The WM Phoenix Open at TPC Scottsdale’s Stadium Course features 10 former major champions and 11 of the top 20 in the Official World Golf Ranking.
Scheffler returns to the site of his first Tour win in 2022 and is coming off his season-opening win at The American Express.
Koepka got his first Tour win in 2015 at the Phoenix Open and added another title in 2021.
Also in the field are top-20 players Schauffele, J.J. Spaun, Ben Griffin, Harris English, Sepp Straka, Hideki Matsuyama, Sony Open winner Chris Gotterup, Collin Morikawa and Cameron Young. They’ll be joined by Jordan Spieth, Tony Finau, Wyndham Clark, Billy Horschel, Max Homa and Viktor Hovland, who is making his 2026 Tour debut.
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