May 28, 2024
Erik van Rooyen betting profile: RBC Canadian Open
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Erik van Rooyen hits the links May 30 - June 2 in the 2024 RBC Canadian Open at Hamilton Golf & Country Club following a 53rd-place finish in the PGA Championship his last time in competition.
Latest odds for van Rooyen at the RBC Canadian Open.
The RBC Canadian Open tournament and course info
- Date: May 30 - June 2, 2024
- Location: Hamilton, ON, CAN
- Course: Hamilton Golf & Country Club
- Par: 70 / 7,084 yards
- Purse: $9.4M
- Previous winner: Nick Taylor
At the RBC Canadian Open
- In his last two appearances at the RBC Canadian Open, van Rooyen has an average finish of 20th, and an average score of 7-under.
- van Rooyen last played at the RBC Canadian Open in 2023, missing the cut with a score of 9-over.
- Nick Taylor finished with 0.95 Strokes Gained: Off-the-Tee (34th in the field), 5.835 SG: Approach the Green (sixth), and 4.831 SG: Putting (10th) en route to winning this tournament in 2023.
- En route to his victory last year, Taylor posted an average driving distance of 294.5 (59th in field), hit 72.22% of greens in regulation (ninth), and took 27 putts per round (10th).
van Rooyen's recent history at the RBC Canadian Open
| Date | Result | Round Scores | To Par |
|---|---|---|---|
| 6/8/2023 | MC | 76-77 | +9 |
| 6/6/2019 | 20 | 64-70-68-71 | -7 |
van Rooyen's recent performances
- van Rooyen has finished in the top five in one of his last five tournaments.
- van Rooyen has finished with a better-than-average score in two of his last five tournaments.
- He has an average score relative to par of 4-under in his last five tournaments.
- Off the tee, Erik van Rooyen has averaged 299.1 yards in his past five tournaments.
- In his past five starts, van Rooyen is averaging 2.248 Strokes Gained: Putting.
- Looking at Strokes Gained: Total, van Rooyen has an average of 3.151 in his past five tournaments.
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van Rooyen's advanced stats and rankings
- van Rooyen has put up a Strokes Gained: Off the Tee average of 0.261, which ranks 46th on TOUR this season. Meanwhile, his average driving distance (300.6 yards) ranks 71st, and his 64.1% driving accuracy average ranks 65th.
- In terms of Strokes Gained: Approach, van Rooyen sports a 0.356 average that ranks 45th on TOUR. He ranks 33rd with a 67.78% Greens in Regulation rate.
- On the greens, van Rooyen's 0.505 Strokes Gained: Putting mark ranks 17th this season, and his 28.44 putts-per-round average ranks 44th.
| Category | Overall TOUR Rank | Overall | Last 5 Starts |
|---|---|---|---|
| Average Driving Distance | 71 | 300.6 | 299.1 |
| Greens in Regulation % | 33 | 67.78% | 63.58% |
| Putts Per Round | 44 | 28.44 | 28.1 |
| Par Breakers | 39 | 26.91% | 21.60% |
| Bogey Avoidance | 33 | 13.09% | 12.65% |
van Rooyen's best finishes
- van Rooyen has participated in 14 tournaments this season, and he has earned two top-five finishes and three top-10 finishes.
- In those 14 events, he made the cut 11 times, a success rate of 78.6%.
- As of now, van Rooyen has compiled 699 points, which ranks him 48th in the FedExCup standings.
van Rooyen's best Strokes Gained performances
- This season, van Rooyen produced his best Strokes Gained: Off-the-Tee mark at the Mexico Open at Vidanta, ranking seventh in the field at 3.532. In that tournament, he finished eighth.
- van Rooyen delivered his best Strokes Gained: Approach effort this season at the Sony Open in Hawaii (January 2024), ranking 10th in the field with a mark of 4.456.
- In terms of Strokes Gained: Around-the-Green, van Rooyen's best performance this season was in March 2024 at the Arnold Palmer Invitational presented by Mastercard, where he ranked fifth in the field with a mark of 3.010. He finished 25th in that tournament.
- At the Cognizant Classic in The Palm Beaches in February 2024, van Rooyen recorded his best Strokes Gained: Putting mark this season (7.706). That ranked No. 1 in the field.
- van Rooyen recorded his best Strokes Gained: Total mark this season (10.007) at the Myrtle Beach Classic in May 2024, a performance that ranked him fourth in the field.
van Rooyen's Strokes Gained rankings
| Category | Overall TOUR Rank | Overall | Last 5 Starts |
|---|---|---|---|
| Average Strokes Gained: Off-the-Tee | 46 | 0.261 | 0.222 |
| Average Strokes Gained: Approach the Green | 45 | 0.356 | 1.947 |
| Average Strokes Gained: Around the Green | 139 | -0.209 | -1.264 |
| Average Strokes Gained: Putting | 17 | 0.505 | 2.248 |
| Average Strokes Gained: Total | 15 | 0.913 | 3.151 |
van Rooyen's past results
| Date | Tournament Name | Result | Round Scores | To Par | FedExCup Points |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 8-11 | RBC Canadian Open | MC | 76-77 | +9 | -- |
| June 22-25 | Travelers Championship | MC | 72-73 | +5 | -- |
| June 29 - July 2 | Rocket Mortgage Classic | MC | 72-71 | -1 | -- |
| July 6-9 | John Deere Classic | MC | 70-72 | E | -- |
| July 13-15 | Genesis Scottish Open | 68 | 72-63-73-73 | +1 | 3 |
| July 27-30 | 3M Open | MC | 68-71 | -3 | -- |
| August 3-6 | Wyndham Championship | MC | 73-67 | E | -- |
| September 14-17 | Fortinet Championship | 30 | 71-67-73-70 | -7 | -- |
| October 5-8 | Sanderson Farms Championship | 16 | 67-68-69-72 | -12 | -- |
| October 12-15 | Shriners Children's Open | 23 | 70-67-68-65 | -14 | -- |
| November 2-5 | World Wide Technology Championship | 1 | 68-64-66-63 | -27 | -- |
| January 4-7 | The Sentry | 22 | 72-65-69-65 | -21 | 85 |
| January 11-14 | Sony Open in Hawaii | 52 | 69-67-68-69 | -7 | 7 |
| January 18-21 | The American Express | 25 | 66-67-69-67 | -19 | 30 |
| February 1-4 | AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am | 20 | 69-70-68 | -9 | 88 |
| February 8-11 | WM Phoenix Open | MC | 72-69 | -1 | -- |
| February 22-25 | Mexico Open at Vidanta | 8 | 63-69-70-70 | -12 | 75 |
| February 29 - March 3 | Cognizant Classic in The Palm Beaches | 2 | 66-71-70-63 | -14 | 245 |
| March 7-10 | Arnold Palmer Invitational presented by Mastercard | 25 | 72-73-72-71 | E | 65 |
| March 14-17 | THE PLAYERS Championship | MC | 71-74 | +1 | -- |
| April 4-7 | Valero Texas Open | MC | 70-76 | +2 | -- |
| April 11-14 | Masters Tournament | 55 | 71-76-78-76 | +13 | 10 |
| April 18-21 | RBC Heritage | 33 | 72-66-72-67 | -7 | 27 |
| May 9-12 | Myrtle Beach Classic | 4 | 67-67-65-70 | -15 | 59 |
| May 16-19 | PGA Championship | 53 | 72-68-71-68 | -5 | 10 |
All stats in this article are accurate for van Rooyen as of the start of the RBC Canadian Open.
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