Stunning eagle keeps Justin Rose's hopes alive at Aronimink

Justin Rose continued his love affair with Aronimink Golf Club with a spectacular eagle to ensure he made the weekend at the US PGA Championship.

The Englishman has an excellent record over the Philadelphia layout, having won the 2010 AT&T National and lost a play-off at the 2018 BMW Championship in two of this three appearances.

He looked set to damage that legacy, however, sitting five over for the day and the week and set to miss the cut when he found the rough with his second at the par five ninth.

What followed was spectacular, with Rose pitching a high shot onto the green and seeing it roll into the cup for the eagle that secured him weekend golf at the second Major Championship of the season.

“I left myself in the worst possible spot which I was getting pretty good at, I’d done that all day long,” he said.

“I literally had to toy with the big bank... I flopped it up over and it’s in the lap of the gods but I hit a great shot, obviously.

“The previous hole I three-putted because I knew I had a par five to finish and was looking to make birdie there but I left myself in... desperate times call for desperate measures and that was pretty fun to be honest.”

From three over, Rose knows he has a mountain to climb to win his second Major Championship but with low scores at a premium over the first two days, the 45-year-old is ruling nothing out.

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“It’s a good opportunity to try and find something,” he said. “I’ve been hitting everything right off the tee. I’ve not been able to stay in my posture, stay in my shots, I’m losing everything to the right with no sort of start-line or clubface control so it’s been a bit of a struggle out there for sure.

“You want to find it. I feel like there is a score to be had out there, I can kind of see it on this course. Obviously it’s a course I’ve played well on in the past, it does fit my eye, I like it, so if I can go out there and post two good rounds on the weekend I can still have a great week.

“It’s been such a bunched leaderboard... so if you can stick around on the weekend I’ve got a feeling you can still have a great week.”