Mark Roe

{{Short description|English professional golfer}} {{For|the law professor|Mark J. Roe}} {{Use British English|date=May 2015}} {{Use dmy dates|date=May 2026}} {{Infobox golfer | name = Mark Roe | image = | imagesize =  | caption = | fullname = Mark Adrian Roe | nickname = | birth_date = {{Birth date and age|df=yes|1963|2|20}} | birth_place = Sheffield, England | death_date =  | death_place = | height = {{height|ft=6|in=0}} | weight =  | nationality = {{ENG}} | residence = Great Bookham, Surrey, England | spouse = Veronique Jacquet Roe | partner = | children = | college = | yearpro = 1981 | tour =  | extour = European Tour | prowins = 3 | eurowins = 3 | champwins =  | seneurowins =  | otherwins =  | majorwins =  | masters = CUT: 1996 | usopen = T13: 1995 | open = T16: 1990 | pga = DNP | wghofid =  | wghofyear =  | award1 =  | year1 =  | award2 = | year2 = | awardssection =  }}

'''Mark Adrian Roe''' (born 20 February 1963) is an English professional golfer, short game coach and golfing analyst for Sky Sports. Roe won worldwide respect for the way he handled being disqualified from the 2003 Open Championship for a scorecard error.<ref name="retire">{{cite news |date=8 October 2006 |title=Roe ends his 21-year Tour career |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/golf/6032247.stm |accessdate=1 August 2009 |publisher=BBC Sport}}</ref>

Roe played for 22 years and 524 events on the European Tour between 1985 and 2006,<ref name=retire/> winning three tournaments and over £2 million in prize money. He reached number 40 in the world rankings. Later, he achieved success as a short game coach, working with 3 major champions and two world No 1 golfers. He is currently a highly respected analyst and golfing pundit for Sky Sports and continues to coach private clients around the world.

==Early life and amateur career== In 1963, Roe was born in Sheffield. At school he was a gymnast, trampolinist, and spring board and high-board diving champion but suffered a perforated eardrum, and while convalescing he took up golf after caddying for his father Gordon.<ref name=telegraph>{{cite news |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/golf/theopen/2408012/Roe-reflects-on-comedy-of-errors.html |title=Roe reflects on comedy of errors |newspaper=The Daily Telegraph |date=20 July 2003 |accessdate=1 August 2009 | location=London | first=James | last=Mossop}}</ref> As an amateur, Roe was a member of the England and Great Britain Boy international golf team.

==Professional career== In 1981, Roe turned professional. In 1985, he became a member of the European Tour having been successful at the final qualifying school at his fourth attempt. Roe won three times on the tour, his first victory was wire-to-wire defeating José María Olazábal by a single shot to win the 1989 Massimo Dutti Catalan Open and his best season on the European Tour was 9th in the Order of Merit which he achieved in 1994. In 1992, he won the Peugeot Open de France. He had several other top-10 finishes during the season.

In 1995, Roe was hit on the head by a stray golf ball which resulted in severe headaches. In July 1999 he tore ligaments in the ring and little fingers of his left hand after grabbing the collar of his dog, which resulted in 20 months out of the game.<ref name=telegraph/>

Roe was just two strokes off the lead after the third round of the 2003 Open Championship when he was disqualified. He and his playing partner, Jesper Parnevik, had failed to swap their scorecards before play, meaning that both players had ended up signing for the wrong scores which resulted in their automatic disqualification.<ref name=bbcopen>{{cite news |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/golf/the_open_2003/3080539.stm |title=Roe and Parnevik disqualified |publisher=BBC Sport |date=19 July 2003 |accessdate=1 August 2009}}</ref> The sport's governing body, The R&A, have since changed the rules, and failure to exchange scorecards no longer results in disqualification. Roe commented at a later date that he "handled the situation in a way that his Father would have been proud of him" and that "he welcomed the rule change so that any other player may not have face to the rollercoaster of emotion that he had to endure on Open Championship Saturday at Royal St George’s in 2003."<ref name=rules>{{cite news |url=http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/sport/golf/article572095.ece |title=Unlucky Roe hails rule change that was on the cards |newspaper=The Times |date=28 September 2005 |accessdate=1 August 2009 | location=London | first=John | last=Hopkins}}{{dead link|date=September 2024|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}}</ref>

In 2006, Roe retired from tournament golf signing off with a 67 on the Old Course at St Andrews in the final round of the Dunhill Links Championship.<ref name="retire" /> He now works as a commentator for Sky Sports.<ref>{{cite web |title=Sky Sports – Golf – Columnists – Mark Roe |url=http://www.skysports.com/opinion/0,25219,12935,00.html |accessdate=1 August 2009 |publisher=Sky Sports}}</ref> He is also a worldwide respected coach, specialising on the short game, and counts Lee Westwood Francesco Molinari, Justin Rose, Nicolas Colsaerts and Ross Fisher amongst many on the list of world class players he has helped.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Mair |first1=Lewine |last2=Spander |first2=Art |date=22 January 2008 |title=Lee Westwood has Mark Roe to thank |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/golf/europeantour/2289674/Lee-Westwood-has-Mark-Roe-to-thank.html |accessdate=1 August 2009 |newspaper=The Daily Telegraph |location=London}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last=Dixon |first=Peter |date=7 July 2008 |title=Mark Roe shows Ross Fisher a short cut to the finish |url=http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/sport/golf/article4282343.ece |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://archive.today/20081007141647/http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/sport/golf/article4282343.ece |archive-date=7 October 2008 |accessdate=1 August 2009 |newspaper=The Times |location=London}}</ref>

==Professional wins (3)== ===European Tour wins (3)=== {| class="wikitable" style="font-size:95%;" !No.!!Date!!Tournament!!Winning score!!Margin of victory!!Runner(s)-up |- |align=center|1 |align=right|19 Mar 1989 |Massimo Dutti Catalan Open |−13 (69-70-69-71=279) |1 stroke |{{flagicon|SCO}} Gordon Brand Jnr, {{flagicon|SCO}} Colin Montgomerie, {{flagicon|ESP}} José María Olazábal |- |align=center|2 |align=right|20 Sep 1992 |Trophée Lancôme |−13 (67-69-66-65=267) |2 strokes |{{flagicon|ARG}} Vicente Fernández |- |align=center|3 |align=right|26 Jun 1994 |Peugeot Open de France |−14 (70-71-67-66=274) |1 stroke |{{flagicon|SWE}} Gabriel Hjertstedt |}

==Results in major championships== {| class="wikitable" style="font-size:95%;text-align:center;" !Tournament !1987 !1988 !1989 !1990 !1991 !1992 !1993 !1994 !1995 !1996 !1997 !1998 !1999 !2000 !2001 !2002 !2003 |- |align=left|Masters Tournament |style="background:#eeeeee;"| |style="background:#eeeeee;"| |style="background:#eeeeee;"| |style="background:#eeeeee;"| |style="background:#eeeeee;"| |style="background:#eeeeee;"| |style="background:#eeeeee;"| |style="background:#eeeeee;"| |style="background:#eeeeee;"| |CUT |style="background:#eeeeee;"| |style="background:#eeeeee;"| |style="background:#eeeeee;"| |style="background:#eeeeee;"| |style="background:#eeeeee;"| |style="background:#eeeeee;"| |style="background:#eeeeee;"| |- |align=left|U.S. Open |style="background:#eeeeee;"| |style="background:#eeeeee;"| |style="background:#eeeeee;"| |style="background:#eeeeee;"| |style="background:#eeeeee;"| |style="background:#eeeeee;"| |style="background:#eeeeee;"| |style="background:#eeeeee;"| |T13 |style="background:#eeeeee;"| |style="background:#eeeeee;"| |style="background:#eeeeee;"| |style="background:#eeeeee;"| |style="background:#eeeeee;"| |style="background:#eeeeee;"| |style="background:#eeeeee;"| |style="background:#eeeeee;"| |- |align=left|The Open Championship |T17 |CUT |T52 |T16 |CUT |CUT |T24 |T67 |CUT |style="background:#eeeeee;"| |CUT |style="background:#eeeeee;"| |style="background:#eeeeee;"| |style="background:#eeeeee;"| |CUT |style="background:#eeeeee;"| |DQ |} ''Note: Roe never played in the PGA Championship.'' {{legend|#eeeeee|Did not play}} CUT = missed the half-way cut DQ = Disqualified "T" = tied

==Team appearances== '''Amateur''' *Jacques Léglise Trophy (representing Great Britain & Ireland): 1980 (winners)

'''Professional''' *World Cup (representing England): 1989, 1994, 1995 *Dunhill Cup (representing England): 1994

==References== {{reflist}}

==External links== *{{Official website|http://www.markroe.info}} *{{EuroTour player|171}} *{{OWGR|549}}

{{DEFAULTSORT:Roe, Mark}} Category:English male golfers Category:European Tour golfers Category:Golfers from Sheffield Category:1963 births Category:Living people