Maximilian Rottluff (born 29 January 1993) is a German

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and

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player. He graduated from the

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where he won two events.

Amateur career

Rottluff became a member of the German National Team in late 2009. He lost the final of the 2010

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, 4 and 3, to

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. In 2011, he won the German Team Championship and represented Europe at the

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. Rottluff went on to represent Germany at the 2012

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in a team with Marcel Schneider and

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. Their team finished in a tie for third behind the United States and Mexico alongside South Korea and France. Rottluff attended

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2012–2016. Playing with the

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team under coach Tim Mickelson he recorded a stroke average of 69.81 in 2014–15, behind only his teammate

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(69.15). He was a first-team All-American and reached the top-20 in the

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Professional career

Rotluff turned professional in 2016 and joined the

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, where he played for two years and won twice, including the 2016 SIGA Dakota Dunes Open for his first professional title. He then played on the

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2018–2021, where his best finish was a T4 at the 2018 KC Golf Classic and 2020 Evans Scholars Invitational. In 2022, he joined the

where he won two titles in 2023, to graduate to the

for the 2024 season.

Personal life

Rotluff's father is a former professional

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player and his sister has played collegiate golf at the

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Amateur wins

*2009 Harder German Junior Masters *2010 Scottish Youths Open, United States Junior Masters, Junior Orange Bowl International *2012 Turkish Amateur Open *2013 German International Amateur *2014 Alister MacKenzie Invitational *2015 Arizona Intercollegiate Source:

Professional wins (4)

Challenge Tour wins (2)

PGA Tour Canada wins (2)

Team appearances

Amateur *

(representing Continental Europe): 2011 *

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(representing Germany): 2011 *

(representing Germany):

2012 2012 was designated as: *International Year of Cooperatives *International Year of Sustainable Energy for All Events January *January 4 – The Cicada 3301 internet hunt begins. * January 12 – Peaceful protests begin in the R ...

2014 The year 2014 was marked by the surge of the Western African Ebola epidemic, West African Ebola epidemic, which began in 2013, becoming the List of Ebola outbreaks, most widespread outbreak of the Ebola, Ebola virus in human history, resul ...

European Amateur Team Championship The European Amateur Team Championship is a European amateur team golf championship for men organised by the European Golf Association which was introduced in 1959. The championship was played in odd-numbered years from 1959 to 2007 and has been ...

(representing Germany):

2013 2013 was the first year since 1987 to contain four unique digits (a span of 26 years). 2013 was designated as: *International Year of Water Cooperation *International Year of Quinoa Events January * January 5 – 2013 Craig, Alask ...

2015 2015 was designated by the United Nations as: * International Year of Light * International Year of Soil __TOC__ Events January * January 1 – Lithuania officially adopts the euro as its currency, replacing the litas, and becomes ...

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(representing Europe):

Professional *

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(representing

): 2016, 2017 (winners)

References

External links

* * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Rottluff, Max German male golfers European Tour golfers Arizona State Sun Devils men's golfers Sportspeople from Düsseldorf 1993 births Living people 21st-century German sportsmen