{"id":477460,"date":"2026-02-13T14:08:11","date_gmt":"2026-02-13T14:08:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/477460\/"},"modified":"2026-02-13T14:08:11","modified_gmt":"2026-02-13T14:08:11","slug":"patrick-reed-schedule-south-african-open-debut-next-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/477460\/","title":{"rendered":"Patrick Reed Schedule: South African Open Debut Next Up"},"content":{"rendered":"

The in-form Patrick Reed<\/a> will continue his DP World Tour campaign<\/a> by making his debut at the Investec South African Open Championship.<\/p>\n

Stellenbosch Golf Club will play host to the second oldest national open in world golf from 26 February to 1 March, an event that’s co-sanctioned with the Sunshine Tour.<\/p>\n

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Reed, who left LIV Golf in January<\/a>, has been in stunning form this year on the DP World Tour – with two wins and a second in three tournaments seeing him lead the Race To Dubai.<\/p>\n

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The former Masters champion started his DP World Tour campaign<\/a> eyeing one of the 10 cards available to return to the PGA Tour – but after his stellar start he now has the Race To Dubai title firmly in his sights.<\/p>\n

It will be a first trip to South Africa for Reed, who is looking to become the first American to win the South African Open since Fred Wadsworth in 1989.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m really excited to make my first trip to South Africa. I have many friends from South Africa and I look forward to competing in their home country on the DP World Tour and in conjunction with the Sunshine Tour,\u201d said Reed.<\/p>\n

Reed made the surprise decision to leave LIV Golf shortly<\/a> after winning the Dubai Desert Classic – and decided to concentrate on the DP World Tour while he waits to become eligiblle for a PGA Tour return.<\/p>\n

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His form in the Middle East was brilliant, following victory in Dubai with play-off defeat at the Bahrain Championship and then another title win at the Qatar Masters.<\/a><\/p>\n

Reed has now risen up to World No.17 in the Official Golf World Ranking, a position that will help him get into the three other Majors this year, with the Green Jacket winner obviously set for life at The Masters.<\/p>\n

But there is also a safety net available at the South African Open with the top three finishes not already exempt getting guaranteed spots in the 154th Open Championship at Royal Birkdale in July.<\/p>\n

Defending champion Dylan Naidoo will be in the field trying to go back-to-back, while the likes of Ernie Els and Charl Schwartzel will headline the home challenge along with Branden Grace, Dean Burmester and Thriston Lawrence.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The in-form Patrick Reed will continue his DP World Tour campaign by making his debut at the Investec…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":466834,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[566],"tags":[64,63,755,85],"class_list":["post-477460","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-golf","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-golf","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/477460","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=477460"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/477460\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/466834"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=477460"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=477460"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=477460"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}