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Benjamin Reuter
Sophomore • 6-3 • 186 • Naarden, The Netherlands • Caland Lyceum
• Represented the Netherlands in the World Amateur Team Championships – 2022 • Member of the Dutch National Team • Dutch National Stroke Play Champion – 2021 • Dutch national champion U12 – 2015, U15 – 2016, 2017
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General: One of the top junior players in Europe, ranked No. 100 among all European amateurs at the end of the summer … In mid-July, stood No. 191 in the World Amateur Golf Ranking, No. 496 in the Scratch Players amateur ranking and No. 482 in the European Golf Ranking … Strong and impressive figure physically … Brother Frederick plays soccer with professional club FC Utrecht … Also enjoys playing soccer and tennis … Plans to study business administration … Last name pronounced “ROO-ter” … Hometown pronounced “NAR-dun.”
2022 Amateur Highlights: Named to compete for the Netherlands at the World Amateur Team Championships in Paris, France … Finished 16th at the Ditch 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: 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).
TOURNAMENT RESULTS
2021-22 ............................................................ Date.....Rounds......................Scores....... Par...............Rank ............... W-L Maui Jim Intercollegiate ...........................9/10-12/2021.............. 3.........74-69-69=212 .......+2.......... t64th/90 ........... 26-63 Hamptons Intercollegiate............................10/4-5/2021.............. 3.........74-72-74=220 .......+4.......... t21st/72 ........... 51-20 Golf Club of Georgia Collegiate ...............10/22-24/2021.............. 3.........70-71-69=210 ........-6.......... t13th/75 ........... 62-12 Amer Ari Intercollegiate................................2/3-5/2022.............. 3.........68-71-71=210 ........-6........ t30th/115 ........... 85-29 Watersound Invitational ............................2/20-22/2022.............. 3.........74-69-76=219 .......+3.......... t34th/72 ........... 38-33 Southern Highlands Collegiate .................2/27-3/1/2022.............. 3.........73-78-71=222 .......+6.......... t67th/84 ........... 17-66 The Goodwin .........................................3/24-26/2022.............. 3.........71-74-71=216 .......+6........ t88th/147 ........... 59-87 Atlantic Coast Conference Championship....4/22-25/2022.............. 3.........71-70-73=214 ........-2......... t22nd/60 ........... 38-21 NCAA Columbus Regional........................5/16-18/2022.............. 3.........72-68-71=211 ........-2............ t4th/75 ............. 71-3 NCAA Championship Stroke Play ..............5/27-30/2022.............. 4........78-76-0-0=154 .....+14...........0th/156 ............... 0-0 SEASON TOTALS.................................................................... 29.......2088 Avg. 72.00........+1..................... ........447-334
CAREER STATISTICS
Season Rounds Lo54 LoRnd Par/- Events Top1 Top5 Top10 W-L WLPct Avg 2021-22 29 210 68 15 10 - 1 1 447-334 .572 72.00 Totals 29 210 68 15 10 - 1 1 447-334 .572 72.00