Mark Roe

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Mark Roe
Personal information
Full nameMark Adrian Roe
Born (1963-02-20) 20 February 1963 (age 61)
Sheffield, England
Height6 ft 0 in (1.83 m)
Sporting nationalityFlag of England.svg  England
Residence Great Bookham, Surrey, England
SpouseVeronique Jacquet Roe
Career
Turned professional1981
Former tour(s) European Tour
Professional wins3
Highest ranking 40 (14 August 1994) [1]
Number of wins by tour
European Tour3
Best results in major championships
Masters Tournament CUT: 1996
PGA Championship DNP
U.S. Open T13: 1995
The Open Championship T16: 1990

Mark Adrian Roe (born 20 February 1963) is an English professional golfer, short game coach and golfing analyst for Sky Sports. Roe won worldwide respect for the way he handled being disqualified from the 2003 Open Championship for a scorecard error. [2]

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Roe played for 22 years and 524 events on the European Tour between 1985 and 2006, [2] winning three tournaments and over £2 million in prize money. He reached number 40 in the world rankings. Later, he achieved success as a short game coach, working with 3 major champions and two world No 1 golfers. He is currently a highly respected analyst and golfing pundit for Sky Sports and continues to coach private clients around the world.

Personal life

Roe was born in Sheffield. At school he was a gymnast , trampolinist and spring board and high-board diving champion but suffered a perforated eardrum, and while convalescing he took up golf after caddying for his father Gordon. [3]

Career

A former England and Great Britain Boy international Golfer Roe turned professional in 1981 and became a member of the European Tour in 1985 having been successful at the final qualifying school at his fourth attempt. He won three times on the tour, his first victory was wire to wire seeing off José Maria Olazabal by a single shot to win the Catalan Open and his best season on the European Tour was 9th in the order of merit ( now Race to Dubai ) which he achieved in 1994 when he won the oldest continental championship the Open De France . He had several other top 10 finishes during the season . His season was curtailed due to a freak accident during the pro am at the British masters . Roe was struck in the forehead by an errant tee shot during the Wednesday pro am and suffered poor vision for several months .

Roe represented England in the Alfred Dunhill Cup in 1994, and in the World Cup in 1989, 1994 and 1995.

Roe retired from tournament golf in 2006, signing off with a 67 on the Old Course at St Andrews in the final round of the Dunhill Links Championship. [2] He now works as a commentator for Sky Sports. [4] He is also a worldwide respected coach, specialising on the short game,(www.markroe.info) and counts Lee Westwood Francesco Molinari , Justin Rose , Nicolas Colsaerts and Ross Fisher amongst many on the list of world class players he has helped. [5] [6]

Accidents

In 1995 Roe was hit on the head by a stray golf ball which resulted in severe headaches. In July 1999 he tore ligaments in the ring and little fingers of his left hand after grabbing the collar of his dog, which resulted in 20 months out of the game. [3]

2003 Open Championship

Roe was just two strokes off the lead after the third round of the 2003 Open Championship when he was disqualified. He and his playing partner, Jesper Parnevik, had failed to swap their scorecards before play, meaning that both players had ended up signing for the wrong scores which resulted in their automatic disqualification. [7] The sport's governing body, The R&A, have since changed the rules, and failure to exchange scorecards no longer results in disqualification. Roe commented at a later date that he "handled the situation in a way that his Father would have been proud of him" and that "he welcomed the rule change so that any other player may not have face to the rollercoaster of emotion that he had to endure on Open Championship Saturday at Royal St George’s in 2003." [8]

Professional wins (3)

European Tour wins (3)

No.DateTournamentWinning scoreMargin of
victory		Runner(s)-up
119 Mar 1989 Massimo Dutti Catalan Open −13 (69-70-69-71=279)1 stroke Flag of Scotland.svg Gordon Brand Jnr, Flag of Scotland.svg Colin Montgomerie,
Flag of Spain.svg José María Olazábal
220 Sep 1992 Trophée Lancôme −13 (67-69-66-65=267)2 strokes Flag of Argentina.svg Vicente Fernández
326 Jun 1994 Peugeot Open de France −14 (70-71-67-66=274)1 stroke Flag of Sweden.svg Gabriel Hjertstedt

Results in major championships

Tournament19871988198919901991199219931994199519961997199819992000200120022003
Masters Tournament CUT
U.S. Open T13
The Open Championship T17CUTT52T16CUTCUTT24T67CUTCUTCUTDQ

Note: Roe never played in the PGA Championship.

  Did not play

CUT = missed the half-way cut
DQ = Disqualified
"T" = tied

Team appearances

Amateur

Professional

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References

  1. ↑ "Week 33 1994 Ending 14 Aug 1994" (pdf). OWGR . Retrieved 4 October 2019.
  2. 1 2 3 "Roe ends his 21-year Tour career". BBC Sport. 8 October 2006. Retrieved 1 August 2009.
  3. 1 2 Mossop, James (20 July 2003). "Roe reflects on comedy of errors". The Daily Telegraph . London. Retrieved 1 August 2009.
  4. ↑ "Sky Sports – Golf – Columnists – Mark Roe". Sky Sports . Retrieved 1 August 2009.
  5. ↑ Mair, Lewine; Spander, Art (22 January 2008). "Lee Westwood has Mark Roe to thank". The Daily Telegraph . London. Retrieved 1 August 2009.
  6. ↑ Dixon, Peter (7 July 2008). "Mark Roe shows Ross Fisher a short cut to the finish". The Times . London. Archived from the original on 7 October 2008. Retrieved 1 August 2009.
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