Justin Rose Details Incredible PGA Tour Daily Routine From 5am Wake-Up To His ‘Recovery Bus’

Justin Rose has detailed the recovery routine he credits for him still being able to win on the PGA Tour even aged 45

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If you want to still be challenging with the young guns on the PGA Tour it takes some work, as Justin Rose has explained with his extreme recovery routine.

Rose was a dominant wire-to-wire winner of the Farmers Insurance Open at Torrey Pines recently - becoming the oldest winner of the event and setting a new tournament scoring record.

Rose said that for an 8am tee time he would be up 5am for an early morning massage with his trainer "doing a little bit of soft tissue stuff around the lumbar region" even before breakfast.

From there it's breakfast and a visit to the fitness trailers they have at PGA Tour venues for a quick 30-minute warm-up "just to get a little bit of pep in my step" before then getting on to the golf.

Rose says he'll only get to the range about 40 minutes before his tee-time.

"I don't like that long on the range," he says. "I'll probably hit balls for 30 minutes and then get going."

After the round Rose is not one to go hit the range hard again like a Bryson DeChambeau might do, not unless something is seriously wrong in his game - but it's his recovery routine that has people talking.

That's because Rose has his own "recovery bus" as he likes to call it, which is an RV that he's stripped out and fitted with some of the most cutting edge recovery systems.

"We've got a hot plunge, cold plunge, infrared sauna, steam shower - steam shower's my favourite especially during allergy season," said Rose.

"There's a red light bed and we've got a spin bike with fresh oxygen."

Rose gave golf.com a tour of his RV a couple of years ago at The Masters when he was able to park up across the street from Augusta National.

Citing a cocktail of hot and cold plunges as his favorite, Rose says he emerges from the recovery bus "feeling brand new" - and the way he's been playing golf lately it's hard to argue.

It doesn't stop there though for one of the hardest workers on tour, as even though he's had an early start, Rose will wait until the next day's pin placements come out before doing some homework on those before calling it a day.

"Typically I feel like my day is always 6 until 8," Rose added. "Then the pin placements come out at 8pm so I like to get them, put them in my book and work out my strategy for the next day.

"So I feel like my mind's not switching off from golf until about nine o'clock at night. It's kind of a long day but hey, I feel like I'm out here to work is the way I look at it."

Having such a routine over almost three decades as a pro shows why Rose has always been spoken about as the ultimate professional - and definitely one of the hardest workers.

It's a routine that has served him well over a superb career, and one that especially in terms of recovery still has him playing at the very top level into his mid-40s.

And who knows, it may just be that extra edge he needs to finally add a second Major to his record even in the twilight of his career.

Paul Higham
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Paul Higham is a sports journalist with over 20 years of experience in covering most major sporting events for both Sky Sports and BBC Sport. He is currently freelance and covers the golf majors on the BBC Sport website.  Highlights over the years include covering that epic Monday finish in the Ryder Cup at Celtic Manor and watching Rory McIlroy produce one of the most dominant Major wins at the 2011 US Open at Congressional. He also writes betting previews and still feels strangely proud of backing Danny Willett when he won the Masters in 2016 - Willett also praised his putting stroke during a media event before the Open at Hoylake. Favourite interviews he's conducted have been with McIlroy, Paul McGinley, Thomas Bjorn, Rickie Fowler and the enigma that is Victor Dubuisson. A big fan of watching any golf from any tour, sadly he spends more time writing about golf than playing these days with two young children, and as a big fair weather golfer claims playing in shorts is worth at least five shots. Being from Liverpool he loves the likes of Hoylake, Birkdale and the stretch of tracks along England's Golf Coast, but would say his favourite courses played are Kingsbarns and Portrush. 

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