Ashley Trevor Roestoff is a South Africa

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n professional golf

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er. He currently plays on the Sunshine Tour

Sunshine Tour

The Sunshine Tour is a men's professional golf tour based in Southern Africa. For much of its history it was known either as the South African Tour or the FNB Tour, but it rebranded itself in an attempt to broaden its appeal...

, where he has found success, winning 10 tournaments between 1992 and 2002.

Roestoff was born in Johannesburg

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, and currently lives in Roodepoort with his wife, Letitia and his son, Travis. He turned professional in 1987. He attended Oral Roberts University

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 in Tulsa, Oklahoma

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Roestoff joined the Sunshine Tour in 1992, and won his first title that same year at the Fish River Sun Classic. He has found most of his success on the Winter Swing of the tour where he has collected a total of 10 tournament victories.

In addition to the Sunshine Tour, Roestoff played one season on the second tier European Challenge Tour

Challenge Tour

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 in 2001, finishing 26th on the final standings having picked up one win, at the Tusker Kenya Open.

Amateur highlights

• 1987 Eastern Transvaal Team: Won all his single matches at the Interprovincial Championship.

Challenge Tour wins (1)

No.	Date	Tournament	Winning Score	Margin of Victory	Runner-up
1	4 Mar 2001 2001 Challenge Tour The 2001 Challenge Tour was a series of golf tournaments known as the Challenge Tour, the official development tour run by the PGA European Tour...	Tusker Kenya Open	-13 (73–65–68–65=271)	Playoff	Andrew Sherborne Andrew Sherborne Andrew Sherborne is an English professional golfer.Sherborne was born in Bristol. He was the leading amateur at The Open Championship in 1984 and turned professional later that year. He played on the European Tour for nearly twenty years, winning the 1991 Madrid Open and the 1992 Peugeot Spanish...

Sunshine Tour wins (10)

• 1992 (1) Fish River Sun Classic
• 1993 (1) Caribbean Estates West Coast Classic
• 1994 (1) Amatola Sun Claasic
• 1995 (2) ICL International, Lombard Tyres Classic
• 1996 (1) Trustbank Gauteng Classic
• 1998 (3) Fish River Sun Pro-Am, FNB Namibia Open, Vodacom Series: Eastern Cape
• 2002 (1) Vodacom Golf Classic

Other wins (1)

• 2009 Klipdrift Gold Sun International Touring Pro-Am (South Africa, non-Order of Merit event)

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