Jake Roos

Jake Roos
 Golfer 
Personal information
Full name Jakobus Roos
Born (1980-10-20) 20 October 1980
Pretoria, South Africa
Height 6 ft 2 in (1.88 m)
Weight 190 lb (86 kg; 14 st)
Nationality  South Africa
Residence [Onrus, South Africa]]
Spouse Rhoné
Children Clara
Career
College University of Stellenbosch
Turned professional 2005
Current tour(s) Sunshine Tour
European Tour
Former tour(s) Challenge Tour
Professional wins 16
Number of wins by tour
Sunshine Tour 6
Challenge Tour 2
Other 8

Jake Roos (born 20 October 1980) is a South African professional golfer.

Roos was born in Pretoria. He was the number one ranked South African amateur golfer before turning professional in 2005 and then joined the Sunshine Tour by finishing 4th at Q-school.

His first victory came at the 2008 Suncoast Classic. His second victory came the following year at the Nedbank Affinity Cup. In 2012, Roos picked up his third victory on Tour at the Platinum Classic after he defeated Chris Swanepoel and Anthony Michael on the fifth hole of a sudden-death playoff.[1] He picked up his second Sunshine Tour victory of the year in June at the Lombard Insurance Classic after defeating Justin Harding in a playoff. Roos entered the final round four shots back of Harding but fired a 63 (–9) to force a playoff. Roos would pick up his third victory of the 2012 season and fifth Sunshine Tour victory overall in November, when he won the Lion of Africa Cape Town Open in a four-man playoff with birdie on the second playoff hole. Roos would pick up his sixth overall Sunshine Tour victory in April 2013 when he won the Golden Pilsener Zimbabwe Open by a single stroke. Roos started the final round four shots back but fired a final round 67 to take the victory.

In March 2014, he won the Barclays Kenya Open and earned a place on the Challenge Tour for the rest of 2014. He would win a second Challenge Tour title at the Aegean Airlines Championship, Germany in July to secure his European Tour card for 2015.

Roos has also won six tournaments on the Golden State Tour, a mini tour in California.

Professional wins (16)

Sunshine Tour wins (6)

No.DateTournamentWinning scoreMargin of
victory
Runner(s)-up
1 13 Sep 2008 Suncoast Classic −6 (68-68-74=210) Playoff South Africa Omar Sandys
2 2 Dec 2009 Nedbank Affinity Cup −12 (71-66-67=204) Playoff South Africa Mark Murless, South Africa Albert Pistorius
3 24 Mar 2012 Platinum Classic −14 (66-66-70=202) Playoff South Africa Anthony Michael, South Africa Chris Swanepoel
4 3 Jun 2012 Lombard Insurance Classic −17 (66-70-63=199) Playoff South Africa Justin Harding
5 25 Nov 2012 Lion of Africa Cape Town Open −9 (71-67-73-68=279) Playoff South Africa Tyrone van Aswegen, South Africa Jaco Van Zyl,
South Africa Mark Williams
6 21 Apr 2013 Golden Pilsener Zimbabwe Open −14 {69-67-71-67=274) 1 stroke South Africa Darren Fichardt, Italy Francesco Laporta

Challenge Tour wins (2)

No.DateTournamentWinning scoreMargin of
victory
Runner(s)-up
1 9 Mar 2014 Barclays Kenya Open −10 (69-68-71-70=278) 1 stroke France Adrien Bernadet, Denmark Lasse Jensen,
Spain Pedro Oriol
2 6 Jul 2014 Aegean Airlines Challenge Tour −13 (69-69-67-70=275) 2 strokes England Jason Barnes

Other wins (8)

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