Justin Rose hits back at "boring" critics

Justin Rose has hit back at a recent YouGov survey claiming golf to be the "most boring sport" of all.

The polling company asked the public about 17 sports as to whether each of them was very/quite boring, neither boring nor exciting or very/quite exciting, of which golf received a whopping 70% in the boring category to top the poll. 

Speaking at this week's Abu Dhabi HSBC Championship, the world number six said: "That's surprising to me."

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"I think if you ask a golf fan, golf’s not boring right now. The young guys are doing incredibly well. We’re on the verge of watching Tiger come back and this comeback definitely looks for real. I think this is an exciting time.

"If you’re going to ask a population, sure, I think golf still has a stigma of being an old man’s sport for people who aren’t aware of what the sport is all about. But I think people in and around the game don’t feel that way."

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Rose has been there, seen it and done it down the years, and knows all too well how different the game is with Woods around. 

Throw in today's mix of talent at the top of the world rankings, and 2018 has potential to be the greatest year yet on Tour in the eyes of the Englishman. 

“I think people love to see history being made, history being broken," said Rose.

"So obviously it takes a dominant figure to do that. Tiger was so dominant, we don’t appreciate how dominant some of these other players have been recently. The top five or six have really separated themselves from the rest. There’s a form of dominance at the top but it’s spread a little bit more evenly than just one guy.

"I think the one guy we all know we’re talking about could make things incredibly interesting where you have the best of both worlds; someone coming back, trying to create even more history and legacy, and yet there’s so much more parity and more interest because there’s more storylines rather than just one."