{"id":508428,"date":"2026-03-02T00:45:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-02T00:45:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/508428\/"},"modified":"2026-03-02T00:45:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-02T00:45:08","slug":"casey-jarvis-wins-south-african-open-gets-spot-in-masters-open","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/508428\/","title":{"rendered":"Casey Jarvis wins South African Open, gets spot in Masters, Open"},"content":{"rendered":"

STELLENBOSCH, South Africa — Casey Jarvis<\/a> had three birdies in his opening five holes en route to a 3-under 67 and a win in the South African Open on Sunday, earning a spot in the Masters and the Open Championship later this year.<\/p>\n

Jarvis won for the second straight week on the DP World Tour, following his victory last week<\/a> in the Kenya Open.<\/p>\n

“I just had a slight feeling at the start of the week that something crazy was going to happen,” Jarvis said after his three-shot victory at Stellenbosch Golf Club.<\/p>\n

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The timing was ideal. For the first time, the Masters offered an invitation to the winner of the South African Open. Golf’s third-oldest national championship also provided three spots to the leading players not already eligible for the Open Championship in July at Royal Birkdale.<\/p>\n

Francesco Laporta<\/a> of Italy closed with a 69 and tied for second with Frederic LaCroix<\/a> of France (65) and Hennie Du Plessis<\/a> of South Africa (69).<\/p>\n

Du Plessis was two shots behind playing the 18th, but he finished with a bogey, which cost him a spot in the Open Championship. Those places went to Laporta and LaCroix because of their better world ranking.<\/p>\n

Jarvis has played only one major, earning a spot in the 2024 U.S. Open through a 36-hole qualifier in England. He missed the cut at Pinehurst No. 2. He moves into the top 100 in the world<\/a> for the first time and could be in line for an invitation to the PGA Championship in May.<\/p>\n

“It’s my dream as a kid to play at Augusta,” Jarvis said. “I thought about it in the morning — it’s hard not to think about it. I cannot wait to go there and see how my game compares with the best players in the world.”<\/p>\n

Starting the final round with a one-shot lead, Jarvis holed a 40-foot birdie putt on the opening hole, hit his approach to 2 feet for birdie on No. 4 and made a third birdie on the par-5 fifth. He finished with six straight pars for a 14-under 266.<\/p>\n

Jarvis is the second South African to win back-to-back on the DP World Tour this season, following Jayden Schaper<\/a> winning in consecutive weeks at the Alfred Dunhill Championship and the Mauritius Open at the end of December.<\/p>\n

Former Masters champion Patrick Reed<\/a>, who leads the Race to Dubai, shot 68 in the final round and tied for 29th.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"STELLENBOSCH, South Africa — Casey Jarvis had three birdies in his opening five holes en route to a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":508429,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[443],"tags":[49,48,622,82],"class_list":["post-508428","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-golf","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-golf","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/508428","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=508428"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/508428\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/508429"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=508428"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=508428"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=508428"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}