Rose had set a tournament record for the opening two days of the championship, but had to settle for a slightly less impressive round on Saturday in Connecticut.
When we meet, he wears a china-blue double-breasted Van Noten suit and white distressed Church's loafers that match the slightly cartoonish white round-frame sunglasses he puts on later as we walk over to Van Noten's Antwerp store, where he often shows up unannounced.