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Justin Rose has the opportunity to properly celebrate his ascent to the top of the sport with victory in the TOUR Championship, which would make him the latest FedEx Cup champion and add another eleven or twelve million to the bank balance.

A fortnight ago, Rose's second place at the BMW Championship saw him take over from Dustin Johnson as golf's world number one but while delighted to achieve a long-held ambition, his immediate reaction was of course one of frustration, as he really ought to have won at Aronimink to complete the job in style.

Rose has since had time to contemplate his success and, as he's shown countless times before, is not one to dwell on negatives for long. Still, he might have preferred to get straight back on the bike and the near fortnight break between these two events reveals a potential negative for backers of the 9/1 joint-favourite.

In 2010, 2012 and 2016, there was a gap between the BMW Championship and the TOUR Championship, and it's in these three years that form from one event to the next proved particularly fickle.

Two years ago, Rory McIlroy beat Ryan Moore and Kevin Chappell in a play-off for this title and none had been in the top 40 of what's just a 70-man field for the BMW. In 2012, while faring better, East Lake winner Brandt Snedeker had been 37th a fortnight previously and none of his chief threats had contended, while in 2010, winner Furyk had been mid-pack - 37th again, in fact.

Three tournaments can only tell us so much, and it should be noted that 2009 also qualifies and while winner Phil Mickelson had been out of sorts coming in, many of those closest to him had been in the mix a couple of weeks earlier. Still, the idea that we could see a very different leaderboard to that which ended Keegan Bradley first, Rose second in the latest BMW Champonship is one I'm keen to explore.

That temptation is enhanced by the course. While Aronimink and East Lake are both designed by Donald Ross, a Golden Era architect whose work is familiar to hardened PGA Tour followers, the former played soft and simple having been restored by Gil Hanse and East Lake should, by rights, prove an altogether tougher test. So far this decade nobody has bettered 13-under and the only player to manage that score won by three. It's a long par 70 which represents a serious challenge.

We do tend to see certain players pop up on Ross layouts come rain or shine, and Rose is one of them. So is Moore, whose first win came at Sedgefield Country Club, home of the Wyndham Championship. The last two winners of that event - Brandt Snedeker and Henrik Stenson - are both winners here, too; Bill Haas has been first at East Lake, second at Sedgefield, a feat Sergio Garcia has achieved in reverse. Webb Simpson, Jordan Spieth and others besides help underscore the relevance of this particular correlation.

It could also be worth looking at the Greenbrier Classic, where Xander Schauffele broke through before winning this title as a rookie 12 months ago. Given how few players in the relatively low-key Greenbrier wind up at East Lake, it's surely telling that Haas, Schauffele and Danny Lee have all contended at both during the same season, and that Kevin Kisner has threatened to win both titles.