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With a 3-Stroke Lead at Torrey Pines, Justin Rose Shows Why He’s No. 1

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SAN DIEGO — Though Tiger Woods grabbed most of the headlines at the Tour Championship in September, with a victory that ended his five-year drought, it was Justin Rose who left the event — the finale of the FedEx Cup playoffs — with a $10 million bonus for winning the season-long points race.

Rose also moved to No. 1 in the world that weekend in Atlanta, passing Dustin Johnson.

Over the past few days at the Farmers Insurance Open, his second PGA Tour event in 2019, Rose has demonstrated why, after trading the top ranking several times with Johnson and Brooks Koepka, he came into this tournament at No.