South African Jayden Schaper chipped \u200din for an eagle on the second playoff \u200bhole to win the DP World Tour\u2019s Mauritius Open on \u200cSunday and continue his \u200cremarkable recent run of success.<\/p>\n
Schaper<\/a> (64) beat American Ryan Gerard<\/a> (66) in the playoff after both \u2060players finished the tournament at \u200c22-under-par in windy conditions at the \u200bHeritage La Reserve Golf Links.<\/p>\n Schaper, 24, has \u200dnow finished second-first-first in his last three tournaments on tour \u200dafter \u200cwinning the Alfred Dunhill Championship last week with an eagle on the first extra \u2060hole.<\/p>\n He tied for second at the Nedbank Golf Challenge at Sun City the weekend before that.<\/p>\n “That’s just insane,” Schaper said. “The last three weeks have been incredible.<\/p>\n “I believe in myself now. I’m trusting my game and \u2060the work that I \u200cam putting in. I have got such a great team behind me, so everything is pretty solid \u2060at the moment.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"South African Jayden Schaper chipped \u200din for an eagle on the second playoff \u200bhole to win the DP…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":330852,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[5904,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-330851","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-golf","tag-golf","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330851","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=330851"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330851\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/330852"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=330851"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=330851"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=330851"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}