RIO DE JANEIRO – It wasn’t standing on the podium or hearing “God Save the Queen” being played or even the gold medal draped across his shoulders that was most special to Justin Rose.
It wasn’t the hundreds of text messages he received in the hours after holding off Henrik Stenson to claim Great Britain’s first gold medal in golf or the pride of pulling on his Team GB tracksuit.
No, it was a phone call from his 7-year-old son, Leo, that truly gave the Englishman an idea of the scope of his accomplishment.