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AUGUSTA, Ga. \u2014 The wait was agonizing for Justin Rose.<\/a><\/p>\n As he stood over his chip shot from the back side of the 4th green on Masters Saturday, you could sense Rose\u2019s discomfort. He was six under for the tournament, six shots back of Rory McIlroy, and the time to mount a Moving Day charge was already growing thin. He\u2019d started his day with two pars and a birdie, not bad scores, though he\u2019d have preferred a birdie on the par-5 2nd, too. Now, on the 4th, he\u2019d flushed an iron too <\/em>good, and was staring at a short-sided chip down a lightning-fast slope with everything to lose.<\/p>\n But then, finally, it was his turn to play, so he stepped to his shot, took a deep breath, and began his charge.<\/p>\n It didn\u2019t look like much at first, a little squibbed bunt that shot low and fast on the hardpan and slowed on the big hump at the back of the 4th green, but then it was tracking \u2026 and then Rose was tracking it, too, walking several steps out to his left as he followed it down towards the hole. And then Rose could not help himself \u2014 just as his ball scared the hole, he scared himself, jolting forward as his ball came to rest in tap-in range. <\/p>\n Strange as it seemed, it was a quintessential moment for the golfer nobody\u2019s talking about at the event he wants more than anything. Rose has spent a lifetime as one of the sport\u2019s most theatrical players<\/a>, leaning headlong into his instincts for the dramatic even in the dullest moments of his professional life. Now, at the Masters, those theatrics have fueled him in consecutive years to the very thick of things late on Sunday afternoon, where he will begin just three shots off the lead.<\/p>\n \u201cYou enjoy the experience here Monday to Wednesday, and then I don\u2019t think you enjoy another golf shot for the rest of the week,\u201d Rose said, in typical Roseian fashion, on Saturday evening. \u201cThere\u2019s high risk and high reward on every shot you hit here.\u201d<\/p>\n