{"id":50560,"date":"2026-02-22T16:18:49","date_gmt":"2026-02-22T16:18:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/?p=50560"},"modified":"2026-02-22T16:18:49","modified_gmt":"2026-02-22T16:18:49","slug":"jarvis-eagles-18th-for-kenyan-open-victory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/2026\/02\/22\/jarvis-eagles-18th-for-kenyan-open-victory\/","title":{"rendered":"South Africa&#8217;s Jarvis eagles 18th for Kenyan Open victory"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script data-jetpack-boost=\"ignore\" async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-1669381584671856\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- Africa tv video display -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-1669381584671856\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"3579572842\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script data-jetpack-boost=\"ignore\">\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<p><h2>&#8220;Only a four-hour flight to Jo&#8217;burg &#8212; I feel sorry for the people on the plane because I feel like it&#8217;s going to be pretty loud!&#8221;<\/h2>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>South African youngster Casey Jarvis made two eagles on the back nine, including one on the 18th hole, to secure a three-shot victory and his maiden European Tour title at the Kenya Open on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>The 22-year-old fired an eight-under-par final round of 62 to pull clear of American Davis Bryant at the top of the leaderboard on 25-under for the tournament.<\/p>\n<p>Jarvis was tied for the lead on 19-under with Bryant when he poured in a lengthy eagle putt on the par-four 12th.<\/p>\n<p>The world number 195 wrapped up the win with his second eagle on the par-five closing hole.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI know this moment doesn\u2019t happen often so we\u2019re going to celebrate it properly tonight,\u201d said Jarvis, who shared the lead after each of the first three rounds.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOnly a four-hour flight to Jo\u2019burg \u2014 I feel sorry for the people on the plane because I feel like it\u2019s going to be pretty loud!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>His compatriot Hennie du Plessis finished third on 21-under.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div>\n<h3>Support Local Journalism<\/h3>\n<p>Add The Citizen as a Preferred Source on Google and follow us on Google News to see more of our trusted reporting in Google News and Top Stories.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script data-jetpack-boost=\"ignore\" async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-1669381584671856\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- Africa tv video display -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-1669381584671856\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"3579572842\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script data-jetpack-boost=\"ignore\">\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script><br \/>\n#South #Africas #Jarvis #eagles #18th #Kenyan #Open #victory<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Only a four-hour flight to Jo&#8217;burg &#8212; I feel sorry for the people on the plane because I feel like&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":50561,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50560","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mzansi"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50560","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50560"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50560\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50562,"href":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50560\/revisions\/50562"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/50561"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50560"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50560"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50560"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}