Aug 5, 2024
Erik van Rooyen betting profile: Wyndham Championship
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Erik van Rooyen will appear in the 2024 Wyndham Championship from Aug. 8-11 after a 17th-place finish at the Men’s Olympic Golf Competition.
Latest odds for van Rooyen at the Wyndham Championship.
The Wyndham Championship tournament and course info
- Date: Aug. 8-11, 2024
- Location: Greensboro, North Carolina, USA
- Course: Sedgefield Country Club
- Par: 70 / 7,131 yards
- Purse: $7.9M
- Previous winner: Lucas Glover
At the Wyndham Championship
- van Rooyen's average finish has been 37th, and his average score 8-under, over his last two appearances at the Wyndham Championship.
- van Rooyen last participated in the Wyndham Championship in 2023, missing the cut with a score of even-par.
- Lucas Glover won this tournament in 2023 with numbers of 3.798 in Strokes Gained: Off-the-Tee (sixth in field), 9.126 in SG: Approach the Green (first), and 4.875 in SG: Putting (15th).
- Glover's average driving distance was 311.6 (27th in field), he hit 90.28% of greens in regulation (first), with 29.75 putts per round (28th) en route to his win last year.
van Rooyen's recent history at the Wyndham Championship
| Date | Result | Round Scores | To Par |
|---|---|---|---|
| 8/3/2023 | MC | 73-67 | E |
| 8/12/2021 | 37 | 65-69-73-65 | -8 |
van Rooyen's recent performances
- van Rooyen has earned one top-10 finish and two top-20 finishes over his last five tournaments.
- Out of the last five tournaments he's entered, he made the cut three times.
- van Rooyen has finished with a score lower than the tournament average in two of his last five events, including one finish within three strokes of the leader.
- He has carded an average score of 11-under over his last five tournaments.
- Off the tee, Erik van Rooyen has averaged 310.8 yards in his past five tournaments.
- van Rooyen has an average of 0.972 Strokes Gained: Putting in his past five tournaments.
- Looking at Strokes Gained: Total, van Rooyen has an average of 0.694 in his past five tournaments.
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van Rooyen's advanced stats and rankings
- van Rooyen has a Strokes Gained: Off the Tee average of 0.370 this season, which ranks 28th on TOUR. Meanwhile, his average driving distance (302.8 yards) ranks 53rd.
- In terms of Strokes Gained: Approach, van Rooyen ranks 54th on TOUR, putting up an average of 0.264, while he ranks 15th with a Greens in Regulation mark of 69.58%.
- On the greens, van Rooyen's 0.406 Strokes Gained: Putting mark places him 25th on TOUR this season, and his 29.03 putts-per-round average ranks 105th. He has broken par 27.41% of the time (12th).
| Category | Overall TOUR Rank | Overall | Last 5 Starts |
|---|---|---|---|
| Average Driving Distance | 53 | 302.8 | 310.8 |
| Greens in Regulation % | 15 | 69.58% | 55.21% |
| Putts Per Round | 105 | 29.03 | 30.1 |
| Par Breakers | 12 | 27.41% | 23.61% |
| Bogey Avoidance | 57 | 14.21% | 12.50% |
van Rooyen's best finishes
- van Rooyen has participated in 20 tournaments this season, and he has come away with two top-five finishes and four top-10 finishes.
- In those 20 tournaments, he made the cut on 15 occasions.
- Currently, van Rooyen ranks 56th in the FedExCup standings with 813 points.
van Rooyen's best Strokes Gained performances
- This season, van Rooyen's best Strokes Gained: Off-the-Tee effort came in May 2024 at the RBC Canadian Open, where he ranked seventh in the field with a mark of 3.942. He finished 42nd in that event.
- van Rooyen's best Strokes Gained: Approach performance this season came at the Genesis Scottish Open in July 2024, as he posted a 5.424 mark, which ranked him sixth in the field. He finished 39th in that event.
- When it comes to Strokes Gained: Around-the-Green, van Rooyen's best mark this season was at the Arnold Palmer Invitational presented by Mastercard in March 2024, as he produced a 3.010 mark, which ranked him fifth in the field. He finished 25th in that tournament.
- At the Cognizant Classic in The Palm Beaches in February 2024, van Rooyen delivered his best Strokes Gained: Putting mark so far this season (7.706, which ranked No. 1 in the field). In that event, he finished second.
- van Rooyen recorded his best Strokes Gained: Total mark this season (10.007) at the Myrtle Beach Classic in May 2024. That ranked fourth in the field.
van Rooyen's Strokes Gained rankings
| Category | Overall TOUR Rank | Overall | Last 5 Starts |
|---|---|---|---|
| Average Strokes Gained: Off-the-Tee | 28 | 0.370 | 1.592 |
| Average Strokes Gained: Approach the Green | 54 | 0.264 | -0.199 |
| Average Strokes Gained: Around the Green | 154 | -0.305 | -1.671 |
| Average Strokes Gained: Putting | 25 | 0.406 | 0.972 |
| Average Strokes Gained: Total | 33 | 0.735 | 0.694 |
van Rooyen's past results
| Date | Tournament Name | Result | Round Scores | To Par | FedExCup Points |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |
| May 30 - June 2 | RBC Canadian Open | 42 | 66-70-70-72 | -2 | 11 |
| June 13-16 | U.S. Open | MC | 76-72 | +8 | -- |
| June 27-30 | Rocket Mortgage Classic | 6 | 69-64-68-72 | -15 | 89 |
| July 11-13 | Genesis Scottish Open | 39 | 67-67-64-74 | -8 | 14 |
| July 25-28 | 3M Open | MC | 75-74 | +7 | -- |
| August 1-3 | Men’s Olympic Golf Competition | 17 | 67-69-69-70 | -9 | -- |
All stats in this article are accurate for van Rooyen as of the start of the Wyndham Championship.
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