Erik van Rooyen

Erik van Rooyen
Personal information
Full name	Frederik Wilhelm van Rooyen
Born	(1990-02-21) 21 February 1990 (age 35) Bellville, South Africa
Height	1.88 m (6 ft 2 in)
Weight	86 kg (190 lb; 13.5 st)
Sporting nationality	South Africa
Residence	Johannesburg, South Africa
Spouse	Rose van Rooyen
Children	2
Career
College	University of Minnesota
Turned professional	2013
Current tour(s)	PGA Tour Sunshine Tour
Former tour(s)	European Tour Challenge Tour
Professional wins	6
Highest ranking	40 (23 February 2020) [1] (as of 13 July 2025)
Number of wins by tour
PGA Tour	2
European Tour	1
Sunshine Tour	1
Challenge Tour	1
Other	1
Best results in major championships
Masters Tournament	T55: 2024
PGA Championship	T8: 2019
U.S. Open	T23: 2020
The Open Championship	T17: 2018
Achievements and awards
European Tour Graduate of the Year 2018

Frederik Wilhelm van Rooyen (born 21 February 1990) is a South African professional golfer who currently plays on the 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 Sunshine Tour since turning professional. In early 2017, he had his first win on the tour, the Eye of Africa PGA Championship, making a birdie at the first extra hole in a three-man playoff. ^[4] He played on the 2017 Challenge Tour where he had his second professional win, the Hainan Open. A number of other good finishes, including fourth place in the Kazakhstan Open and a tie for third in the season-ending 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 Joburg Open, three strokes behind Shubhankar Sharma. The event was part of the Open Qualifying Series and his high finish gave him an entry to the 2018 Open Championship, his first major championship. ^[5] He led the 2018 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 Commercial Bank Qatar Masters and the Hassan II Golf Trophy. He also had a top-10 finish in the 2019 PGA Championship.

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

• 2011 Southern Cape Open
• 2012 Minnesota State Amateur

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	Andrew Putnam
2	5 Nov 2023	World Wide Technology Championship	−27 (68-64-66-63=261)	2 strokes	Matt Kuchar, 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	Matt Fitzpatrick

European Tour playoff record (0–1)

No.	Year	Tournament	Opponents	Result
1	2019	Turkish Airlines Open	Tyrrell Hatton, Benjamin Hébert, Kurt Kitayama, Victor Perez, 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	Dylan Frittelli, Makhetha Mazibuko

Sunshine Tour playoff record (1–0)

No.	Year	Tournament	Opponents	Result
1	2017	Eye of Africa PGA Championship	Dylan Frittelli, 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 Open 1	−18 (67-65-67-71=270)	2 strokes	Grant Forrest, 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	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	2025
Masters Tournament			WD		CUT		T55
PGA Championship		T8	T51	CUT	CUT		T53	CUT
U.S. Open		T43	T23	CUT	CUT		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	6	3
U.S. Open	0	0	0	0	0	1	6	2
The Open Championship	0	0	0	0	0	2	3	2
Totals	0	0	0	0	1	4	18	8

• 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	2025
The Players Championship	T13		CUT	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

• World Cup (representing South Africa): 2018

See also

• 2017 Challenge Tour graduates

References

1. "Week 8 2020 Ending 23 Feb 2020" (pdf). 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.

External links

• Erik van Rooyen at the PGA Tour official site
• Erik van Rooyen at the European Tour official site
• Erik van Rooyen at the Sunshine Tour official site
• Erik van Rooyen at the Official World Golf Ranking official site