Roger Wessels | |
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Personal information | |
Full name | Roger Mark Wessels |
Born | Port Elizabeth, South Africa | 4 March 1961
Height | 1.91 m (6 ft 3 in) |
Sporting nationality | South Africa |
Residence | George, South Africa |
Career | |
Turned professional | 1983 |
Former tour(s) | European Tour Sunshine Tour Canadian Tour |
Professional wins | 12 |
Number of wins by tour | |
Sunshine Tour | 5 |
Other | 7 |
Best results in major championships | |
Masters Tournament | DNP |
PGA Championship | DNP |
U.S. Open | DNP |
The Open Championship | T77: 2002 |
Roger Mark Wessels (born 4 March 1961) is a South African professional golfer.
Wessels was born in Port Elizabeth. He turned professional at a relatively late age in 1987, without having had any major successes as an amateur. Despite that, he won several times on the Southern Africa Tour, latterly the Sunshine Tour, including the South African PGA Championship in 1991. He also played on the Canadian Tour, where he won the Canadian Masters title in 1994. He represented South Africa in the World Cup at the end of that year.
Wessels played on the European Tour from 1995 through 2003, having his best season in 2000 when he finished 35th on the Order of Merit. He retired from tournament golf at the end of 2003, and has since pursued a career as a teaching professional. [1]
No. | Date | Tournament | Winning score | Margin of victory | Runner(s)-up |
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1 | 27 Jan 1991 | Lexington PGA Championship | −9 (68-66-68-69=271) | Playoff | Mark James, Hugh Royer III |
2 | 14 Oct 1995 | Phalaborwa Mafunyane Trophy | −4 (69-74-69=212) | Playoff | Hugh Baiocchi |
3 | 10 Nov 1996 | Mycom Mafunyane Trophy (2) | −14 (68-66-68=202) | 3 strokes | Brett Liddle |
4 | 15 Oct 2000 | Observatory Classic | −20 (65-65-66=196) | 6 strokes | Justin Hobday, Ashley Roestoff |
5 | 18 Nov 2001 | Platinum Classic | −15 (68-69-64=201) | 4 strokes | Des Terblanche |
Southern Africa Tour playoff record (2–0)
No. | Year | Tournament | Opponent(s) | Result |
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1 | 1991 | Lexington PGA Championship | Mark James, Hugh Royer III | Won par with on second extra hole Royer eliminated by par on first hole |
2 | 1995 | Phalaborwa Mafunyane Trophy | Hugh Baiocchi |
No. | Date | Tournament | Winning score | Margin of victory | Runner-up |
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1 | 31 Jul 1994 | Canadian Masters | −12 (63-70-69-70=272) | 1 stroke | Ray Stewart |
Tournament | 2002 |
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Masters Tournament | DNP |
U.S. Open | DNP |
The Open Championship | T77 |
PGA Championship | DNP |
DNP = Did not play
CUT = missed the half-way cut
"T" = tied
Yellow background for top-10.
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