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Justin Rose was playing alongside Jordan Spieth when he pulled out a midfielder from the Arnold Palmer Invitational with a back injury; old world No 1 hopes to qualify for TPC Sawgrass PGA Tour Players Tournament from March 11-14

Justin Rose pulled out a midfielder from the Arnold Palmer Invitational

Justin Rose is hoping to qualify for next week’s Players Championship after pulling out a midfielder from the Arnold Palmer Invitational due to injury.

The Englishman finished just three holes of his third round, where he played alongside Jordan Spieth, before calling back spasms as the reason behind a withdrawal from the Florida event.

Rose entered the weekend just four strokes off midfielder Corey Conners and well placed to challenge for the first worldwide win since January 2019, just to quickly land on board of directors Saturday.

The former No. 1 world rose up and down from a green bunker to save par at first and made a two-putt par at the next, where Spieth punched a hole in it. -one surprise, before seeing his walk around swiftly at the third -four par.

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Jordan Spieth jumped up the Arnold Palmer Invitational board after a hole-in-one birdie followed by a hole-in-one at par-three in the second!

Rose dipped his tee gun into water and found danger with his next two attempts, then found dry land with his next shot – his seventh – and two-putted for a quintuple- bogey nine.

The 40-year-old got more issues at the next par-five and was unable to reach the green in four strokes, with Rose then calling time on his run and leaving Spieth without a play companion.

“Refusing to withdraw,” Rose said. “I just woke up with a bit of a spasmed lower back today and tried to get through. My warm-up was hard work and I couldn’t stay down in a bullet. .

“I basically missed every last golf sighting to start the day. Even my little chip into the fourth hole out of the rough from the left was creating pain.

Rose is 148th in the FedExCup position

“I’m just kind, with the look on next week and what you have, I just felt like it was a sober call to call at that moment. I was feeling bad, by Jordan [Spieth] has a movement, to change the bribe of the group. “

The world No. 36 finished second to Saudi International at the European Tour last month, but is without a top-10 on the PGA Tour since claiming ninth place at the August PGA Championship. Rose’s last victory came at the 2019 Farmers Insurance Open.

Rose is set to reappear next week at the Players’ Tournament, live on Sky Sports, where 49 of the world’s top 50 will appear at TPC Sawgrass. Live coverage will begin on Thursday 11 March from 11.30am on Sky Sports Golf.