Erik van Rooyen

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Erik van Rooyen
Personal information
Full nameFrederik van Rooyen
Born (1990-02-21) 21 February 1990 (age 34)
European Tour
Graduate of the Year
2018

Frederik van Rooyen (born 21 February 1990) is a South African

European Tour and the PGA Tour
. He has won twice on the PGA Tour, as well as once on the European Tour.

Amateur career

Van Rooyen attended the University of Minnesota from 2009 through 2013.[2] During this experience, he won the 2012 Minnesota State Amateur.[3]

Professional career

In 2013, Van Rooyen turned professional. He has played on the

NBO Golf Classic Grand Final, put van Rooyen third in the Challenge Tour Race to Oman rankings, earning a card for the 2018 European Tour season.

Erik van Rooyen at the 2019 Scandinavian Invitation in Gothenburg, Sweden, at the driving range before the second round

In December 2017, van Rooyen was runner-up in the

Dubai Duty Free Irish Open
by four strokes after three rounds, but a final round 74 dropped him into a tie for 4th place.

Van Rooyen made a good start to 2019, finishing joint runner-up in the

.

On 25 August 2019, van Rooyen won his first European Tour title at the Scandinavian Invitation at Hills Golf & Sports Club, outside Gothenburg, Sweden. He sank a 12 feet birdie putt on the finishing par 5 72nd hole, to win by a stroke with a new tournament record 261 on the par 70 course.[6]

After van Rooyen tied for third at the

WGC-Mexico Championship in February 2020, he advanced to a career best 40th on the Official World Golf Ranking
.

After a T20 finish at the 2020 WGC-FedEx St. Jude Invitational in August 2020, van Rooyen was granted Special Temporary Membership until the end of the 2019–20 PGA Tour season.[7]

In August 2021, van Rooyen won his first PGA Tour event at the

Barracuda Championship. He broke the tournament scoring record by shooting a total of 50 points (modified stableford) over four rounds.[8]

In November 2023, van Rooyen won the 2023 World Wide Technology Championship for his first PGA Tour win in over two years. He made a putt for an eagle on the par-5 18th hole on Sunday to win. In the last round, van Rooyen played the back nine in 8-under 28 as part of a 9-under 63.[9]

Amateur wins

Professional wins (6)

PGA Tour wins (2)

No. Date Tournament Winning score Margin of
victory
Runner(s)-up
1 8 Aug 2021
Barracuda Championship
50 pts (7-17-10-16=50) 5 points United States Andrew Putnam
2 5 Nov 2023 World Wide Technology Championship −27 (68-64-66-63=261) 2 strokes United States Matt Kuchar, Colombia Camilo Villegas

European Tour wins (1)

No. Date Tournament Winning score Margin of
victory
Runner-up
1 25 Aug 2019
Scandinavian Invitation
−19 (65-68-64-64=261) 1 stroke England Matt Fitzpatrick

European Tour playoff record (0–1)

No. Year Tournament Opponents Result
1 2019 Turkish Airlines Open England Tyrrell Hatton, France Benjamin Hébert,
United States Kurt Kitayama, France Victor Perez,
Austria Matthias Schwab
Hatton won with par on fourth extra hole
Kitayama eliminated by birdie on third hole
Hébert, Perez and van Rooyen eliminated by birdie on first hole

Sunshine Tour wins (1)

No. Date Tournament Winning score Margin of
victory
Runners-up
1 12 Feb 2017
Eye of Africa PGA Championship
−16 (69-68-68-67=272) Playoff South Africa Dylan Frittelli, South Africa Makhetha Mazibuko

Sunshine Tour playoff record (1–0)

No. Year Tournament Opponents Result
1 2017
Eye of Africa PGA Championship
South Africa Dylan Frittelli, South Africa Makhetha Mazibuko Won with birdie on first extra hole

Challenge Tour wins (1)

No. Date Tournament Winning score Margin of
victory
Runners-up
1 15 Oct 2017 Hainan Open1 −18 (67-65-67-71=270) 2 strokes Scotland Grant Forrest, Finland Tapio Pulkkanen

1Co-sanctioned by the China Tour

Other wins (1)

No. Date Tournament Winning score Margin of
victory
Runner-up
1 12 Jun 2016 Tapemark Charity Pro-Am −13 (69-64-67=200) 5 strokes United States Justin Smith

Source:[10]

Results in major championships

Results not in chronological order before 2019 and in 2020.

Tournament 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023 2024
Masters Tournament WD CUT T55
PGA Championship T8 T51 CUT CUT
U.S. Open T43 T23 CUT CUT
The Open Championship T17 T20 NT CUT
  Top 10
  Did not play

CUT = missed the half-way cut
WD = withdrew
"T" indicates a tie for a place
NT = No tournament due to COVID-19 pandemic

Summary

Tournament Wins 2nd 3rd Top-5 Top-10 Top-25 Events Cuts made
Masters Tournament 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 1
PGA Championship 0 0 0 0 1 1 4 2
U.S. Open 0 0 0 0 0 1 4 2
The Open Championship 0 0 0 0 0 2 3 2
Totals 0 0 0 0 1 4 14 7
  • Most consecutive cuts made – 6 (2018 Open – 2020 U.S. Open)
  • Longest streak of top-10s – 1 (2019 PGA)

Results in The Players Championship

Tournament 2022 2023 2024
The Players Championship T13 CUT
  Did not play

CUT = missed the halfway cut
"T" indicates a tie for a place

Results in World Golf Championships

Tournament 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022
Championship
T36 T3 T37
Match Play
NT1 R16 T60
Invitational
T20
Champions T22 T38 NT1 NT1 NT1

1Cancelled due to COVID-19 pandemic

  Top 10
  Did not play

NT = No tournament
"T" = Tied
QF, R16, R32, R64 = Round in which player lost in match play
Note that the Championship and Invitational were discontinued from 2022.

Team appearances

Professional

See also

References

  1. OWGR
    . Retrieved 24 February 2020.
  2. ^ "Erik van Rooyen". Golden Gophers. Retrieved 10 December 2017.
  3. ^ "MGA Amateur Championship". Minnesota Golf Association. Archived from the original on 15 February 2022.
  4. ^ "Van Rooyen pulls off Eye of Africa play-off victory". Sunshine Tour. 12 February 2017.
  5. ^ "Sharma romps to maiden win at Joburg Open". European Tour. 11 December 2017. Retrieved 11 December 2017.
  6. ^ "Van Rooyen jumps into Race to Dubai top ten". European Tour. 27 August 2019. Retrieved 30 June 2020.
  7. ^ "Erik van Rooyen accepts Special Temporary Membership". PGA Tour. 4 August 2020. Retrieved 4 August 2020.
  8. ^ "Erik van Rooyen wins first PGA Tour title in style, setting tourney scoring record". Golf Digest. 8 August 2021. Retrieved 9 August 2021.
  9. ^ "van Rooyen eagles 18 to win in Mexico as Kuchar melts down". TSN.ca. Associated Press. 5 November 2023. Retrieved 5 November 2023.
  10. ^ Fermoyle, Mike (12 June 2016). "Van Rooyen Cruises to Victory at Tapemark". TSN.ca. Minnesota Golf Association. Retrieved 7 November 2023.

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