General: One of the top junior players in Europe, ranked No. 100 among all European amateurs at the end of the summer … Sits No. 222 in the World Amateur Golf Ranking … Strong and impressive figure physically … Brother Frederick plays soccer with professional club FC Utrecht … Also enjoys playing soccer and tennis … Studying business administration … Last name pronounced “ROY-ter” … Hometown pronounced “NAR-dun.”
2024 Amateur Highlights: Tied for 23rd at the Jones Cup Invitational in January at Sea Island, Ga.
2023-24: Has not yet played in competition, intending to red-shirt
2023 Amateur Highlights: Tied for 44th at the European Amateur Championship in Estonia (279, -9) … Missed the cut at The Amateur Championship in Southport, England … Tied for 54th at the European Men’s Team Championships (144, even) … Also finished eighth at the Dutch National Stroke Play Championship and 21st at the Dutch Amateur Championship, both in August … … Tied for 39th place at the World Amateur Team Championship in Abu Dhabi (284, -4)
2022-23: Tournament Results
Played in five of Tech’s 11 stroke-play events, and was Tech’s alternate player for the ACC Championship, NCAA regional and NCAA Championship … Performed well in the spring with a tie for 12th (Southern Highlands Collegiate (210, -6), a tie for 10th (Linger Longer Invitational, 216, even) and a tie for 32nd (The Goodwon, 213, +3) in Tech’s last three regular-season events (competed as an individual in all three) … Closed the fall season strong by tying for 15th place at the Golf Club of Georgia Collegiate (213, -3) after tying for 78th at the Inverness Intercollegiate … Has a 72.53 stroke average over 15 rounds … Ranked No. 162 in Golfstat, No. 176 in the Golfweek/Sagarin Index.
2022 Amateur Highlights: … Tied for 112th (298, +12) as the Netherlands finished 30th at the World Amateur Team Championships in Paris. … Finished 16th at the Dutch Amateur Championship in August … Tied for 39th place at the European Amateur Championship in Valencia, Spain (292, +4) … Member of the Dutch team that reached the finals of the European Team Amateur Championship in flight B (finished 9th in team stroke play), where they halved the championship match vs. Finland; tied for 25th in stroke play qualifier (140, even) and won two of his three individual matches against Kevin Jegers of Estonia and Antti-Jussi Lintunen of Finland.
2021-22: Tournament Results
Tied for fourth at the NCAA Columbus Regional (211, -2) and tied for 22nd in ACC Championship stroke play (214, -2) for his top finishes this spring … Won his ACC semifinal individual match over Florida State’s Brett Roberts (1-up) and pushed Wake Forest’s Alex Fitzpatrick to 21 holes before losing the deciding match in the finals … Shot 78-76 in two NCAA Championship rounds before being subbed out … Tied for 30th in Tech’s spring opener in Hawai’i and 34th at the Watersound Invitational … No. 283 in the Golfstat rankings and No. 202 in the Golfweek/Sagarin Index … Played three times in the fall, earning his best finish with a tie for 13th at the Golf Club of Georgia Collegiate … Also tied for 21st at the Hamptons Intercollegiate … Posted stroke average of 72.00 over 29 rounds, seventh-best by a freshman in program history.
2021 Amateur Highlights in United States: Tied for 11th in stroke play at the U.S. Junior Amateur (141, -2) and won his first-round match against Matvay Golovanov (6&5) … Lost in the round of 32 to Jackson Van Paris ($&3).
European Golf: Won the Dutch National Stroke Play Championship in August (2021) and was the runner-up in the Dutch U18 Championship in July (2021) … Finished 13th in the 2021 Spanish Amateur Championship and reached the round of 16 in match play … Finished fourth in the German Boys Open … Shot 69-74 to help The Netherlands finish fifth in the stroke play portion of the 2021 European Amateur Team Championship … Won the Dutch national under-15 championship three consecutive years (2016, 2017, 2018) before finishing second in the country’s U18 championship in 2019 and seventh in 2020 … Performed well in other Dutch national events against all-aged competition – he finished eighth and third in the national stroke play championship the last two years, as well as 22nd and second the last two years in his country’s national open championship … Finished in the top-10 in six of 19 amateur events that counted toward points in the World Amateur Golf Ranking, including a sixth-place finish in the European Young Masters and ninth place in the International de France U18 in 2019 … Against the world’s top junior players, he finished 13th and 35th in the 2019 and 2020 Junior Orange Bowl Invitational in South Florida … Owns the course record of 64 (-8) at his home club (Hilversumsche Golf Club).
Low | Par/- | Finish Top | |||||||||
Season | Rounds | 54-holes | Round | Rounds | Events | 1 | 5 | 10 | W-L | W-L% | Average |
2021-22 | 29 | 210 | 68 | 15 | 10 | – | 1 | 1 | 447-334 | .572 | 72.00 |
2022-23 | 15 | 212 | 68 | 7 | 5 | – | – | 1 | 317-152 | .676 | 72.53 |
Totals | 44 | 210 | 68 | 22 | 15 | – | 1 | 2 | 764-486 | .611 | 72.18 |