University of Minnesota Athletics
Erik Van Rooyen Named to PING All-Region Team
5/31/2012 12:00:00 AM | Men's Golf
May 31, 2012
The Golf Coaches Association of America recently announced that Gopher junior Erik Van Rooyen has been named to the PING All-Region Team.
This is the second consecutive season that Van Rooyen has been named to the team and the ninth time in the last 10 years that a Gopher player has been selected to the all-region team.
Van Rooyen completed his junior season at Minnesota by finishing in a tie for 19th place at the NCAA Ann Arbor Regional. His third round card of three-under par 68 was his second-lowest round of the year. Van Rooyen, who has played in back-to-back NCAA Regionals, will enter his senior campaign with a career stroke average of 73.68, the ninth-lowest in the history of Gopher golf.
A native of Oudtshoorn, South Africa, Van Rooyen led the Gophers in the fall and spring seasons in stroke average at 73.2 and 71.7, respectively. His combined stroke average of 72.45 this season is tied for the ninth-lowest in the history of Minnesota golf and is his lowest in the three seasons he has been at the U.
A total of 155 players across six regions - Northeast, East, Southeast, Midwest, Central and West - earned all-region honors for 2012.
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