Doug Roxburgh, Date of Birth

    

Doug Roxburgh

Amateur golfer

Date of Birth: 28-Dec-1951

Profession: golfer

Nationality: Canada

Zodiac Sign: Capricorn


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About Doug Roxburgh

  • Doug Roxburgh (born December 28, 1951) is a Canadian accountant, amateur golfer, and golf administrator.
  • He has won the Canadian Amateur Championship four times, the B.C.
  • Amateur Championship a record 13 times, and is a member of the Canadian Golf Hall of Fame. Roxburgh was born in Vancouver, British Columbia.
  • He learned golf as a youth, and was runner-up in the Canadian Junior Championship in 1967 at age 15.
  • He scored his first important success in the 1969 B.C.
  • Junior Championship, and repeated his win in that event the next year.
  • He also won the first of his 13 B.C.
  • Amateur Championships in 1969.Roxburgh won the Canadian Junior Championship by six strokes in 1970.
  • He attended the University of Oregon on a golf scholarship for two years, beginning in 1970, studying commerce, but left to complete his degree at Simon Fraser University.
  • He lost a playoff to Dick Siderowf for the Canadian Amateur Championship in 1971, and won the first of his four Canadian Amateur titles in 1972, repeating in 1974, 1982, and 1988.
  • He has represented Canada a dozen times in international play, including seven times in the Eisenhower Trophy.Roxburgh has maintained his amateur status, and has been a member at the Marine Drive Golf Club in Vancouver since his teenage years.
  • A longtime enthusiastic booster of junior golf, he is now employed by the Royal Canadian Golf Association as an advisor on elite player development.
  • He was inducted into the Canadian Golf Hall of Fame in 1990.

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