General: One of the top junior players in Europe, ranked No. 100 among all European amateurs at the time of his enrollment at Tech … Sits No. 66 in the World Amateur Golf Ranking and No. 61 in the European Amataur Ranking and returned to action after taking a redshirt year in 2023-24 … 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.”
2024-25: Tournament Results
Returned from a redshirt year to become Tech’s top player during the fall season, ranked No. 30 in the NCAA Scoreboard rankings with four top-20 finishes in five events … Has team’s top scoring average at 70.15 over 13 rounds … Was the runner-up by one stroke at the Olympia Fields/Fighting Illini Invitational (-8) and led Tech to the team title … Finished 8th at the East Lake Cup and won his only finished match … Tied for 14th at the Ben Hogan Collegiate Invitational (+3) and 15th at the Golf Club of Georgia Collegiate Invitational (-3) … Broke par in six of 13 rounds, and had an aggragate even-par score for the fall
2024 Amateur Highlights: Tied for 23rd at the Jones Cup Invitational in January at Sea Island, Ga. … Won the Gordon Bennett Trophy as French Men’s Open champion in May (212, -4) … Finished 34th at the Scottish Men’s Open and 42nd at the English Amateur … Finished 15th at the St. Andrews Links Trophy … Tied for 37th in the stroke play component at the European Amateur Team Championship in Italy, and won two of his three matches for the Netherlands in the match play draw
2023-24: Did not compete and took a redshirt year
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 |
