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Justin Rose is the 2021 Payne Stewart Award recipient

Justin Rose was named the 2021 recipient of the Payne Stewart Award, which is presented annually by the PGA Tour to the golfer who best exemplifies character, charity and sportsmanship.

Stewart, a three-time major champion, perished in a 1999 plane crash as the reigning U.S. Open champion.

"[The award has] been a huge surprise and a lovely honor and something that's definitely uplifted me," Rose said Wednesday at the Wyndham Championship. "It's the kind of award I think that clearly it's not based around your golf. The golf's been a platform for me to sort of I guess do other things and be honored and recognized in this way, but it's the type of reward that kind of makes you reflect a little bit on all the things that contributed towards that.