Casey Jarvis became the latest HotelPlanner Tour graduate to win on the DP World Tour by producing a stunning birdie-eagle finish on Sunday to triumph in the Magical Kenya Open presented by absa.
The South African made sure of a wire-to-wire win at Karen Country Club with a closing eight under par round of 62, and with it adds his name to a growing list of graduates to win on Golf’s Global Tour.
The 22-year-old does so just over two years after gaining promotion following a stellar debut season on the HotelPlanner Tour.
Promotion campaign
Jarvis teed it up in the 2023 season as a 19-year-old and kickstarted his promotion campaign by impressing across the opening four weeks of the year in his native South Africa. On home soil, he recorded finishes of tied 23rd, tied 20th, tied ninth and a solo second, results that saw him earn additional playing opportunities when the season reached Europe.
A couple of months later, Jarvis moved firmly into promotion contention, recording back-to-back second-place finishes in the Copenhagen Challenge presented by Ejner Hessel and the D+D Real Czech Challenge, as he catapulted himself into second place on the Road to Mallorca Rankings.
Jarvis would all-but guarantee his promotion to the DP World Tour in Austria in July, where he held his nerve on a tense final day to earn a maiden title in the Euram Bank Open.
Jarvis would drop no lower than fifth on the Road to Mallorca Rankings throughout the remainder of the season, eventually ending the year as the Number Two, eight points off top spot, and with a life-changing DP World Tour card.
DP World Tour success
In his debut year on Golf’s Global Tour, the South African would record three top ten finishes, including a season-best tied sixth at the Genesis Championship in South Korea as he comfortably kept his playing privileges, ending the year 63rd on the Race to Dubai.
Jarvis retained his DP World Tour card in 2025 too, finishing 96th on the Race to Dubai, before finding form at the beginning of the 2026 campaign.
A third-place finish in the AfrAsia Bank Mauritius Open saw him end the 2025 calendar year with his best result on Golf’s Global Tour to date, before he added a second top ten of the campaign by finishing ninth in the Bapco Energies Bahrain Championship at the end of January.
The South African’s win in Kenya last week sees him climb to fourth on the Race to Dubai. He will now tee it up in back-to-back tournaments in the Rainbow Nation, starting with the Investec South African Open Championship at Stellenbosch Golf Club this week.
