Rose blossoms late in round

A two-under-par 70 was good enough to give Britain’s Justin Rose a share of fourth place midway through the opening day of the Wachovia Championship in Charlotte, North Carolina.

The 7,452-yard Quail Hollow course rates as one of the longest and most demanding on the US Tour and so it proved until South African Trevor Immelman, two over at the turn, covered the front nine in a spectacular six-birdie 30 t set the clubhouse target on 68.