Casey Jarvis

Casey Jarvis (born 28 July 2003) is a South African professional golfer who plays on the Challenge Tour and Sunshine Tour. In 2023, he shot a 59 at the Stella Artois Players Championship and became Sunshine Tour Rookie of the Year before winning the Euram Bank Open in Austria.[1]

Casey Jarvis
Personal information
Born (2003-07-28) 28 July 2003
Boksburg, South Africa
Sporting nationality South Africa
ResidenceBoksburg, South Africa
Career
Turned professional2022
Current tour(s)Sunshine Tour
Challenge Tour
Professional wins2
Number of wins by tour
Challenge Tour1
Other1
Achievements and awards
Sunshine Tour
Rookie of the Year		2022–23

Early life and amateur career

Jarvis was born and grew up in Boksburg, South Africa. He had a successful amateur career and was on the national squad. He won the 2019 Junior Golf World Cup in Japan with the South African team, joined by Samuel Simpson, Martin Vorster and Christo Lamprecht.[2]

In 2020, at 16, he captured the South African double, winning both the South African Stroke Play Championship and the South African Amateur Championship.[3]

He won the African Amateur Stroke Play Championship back to back in 2021 and 2022.[4]

Jarvis also won on South Africa's development tour, the Big Easy Tour, a few weeks before he turned professional following the Western Amateur.[1]

Career

Jarvis turned professional in August 2022 and joined the Sunshine Tour, where he finished runner-up at the South African PGA Championship and The Tour Championship, and won the Rookie of the Year award.[5]

At age 19, he become the second youngest person to shoot a 59, in the third round of the 2023 Stella Artois Players Championship.[6]

Jarvis's results in Sunshine Tour events co-sanctioned by the Challenge Tour in early 2023 (including a second-place finish at the SDC Open) enabled him to play in further Challenge Tour events. He had runner-up finishes at the Copenhagen Challenge and D+D Real Czech Challenge before winning the Euram Bank Open in Austria in July to move to the top of the Race to Mallorca season ranking.

Amateur wins
  • 2017 English Boys Under-14 Open Amateur Stroke Play Championship
  • 2018 South African Boys U17 Stroke Play, African Junior Open, Ekurhuleni Open
  • 2019 Silver Salver
  • 2020 Free State Open, Gauteng North Open, South African Stroke Play Championship, South African Amateur Championship
  • 2021 African Amateur Stroke Play Championship
  • 2022 Gauteng North Open, African Amateur Stroke Play Championship, Northern Cape Amateur Open, Africa Region 5 Amateur Tournament

Source:[7]

Professional wins (2)

Challenge Tour wins (1)
No.DateTournamentWinning scoreMargin of
victory		Runner-up
1 16 Jul 2023 Euram Bank Open −18 (65-63-65-69=262) 1 stroke Scotland Euan Walker

Big Easy Tour wins (1)
No.DateTournamentWinning scoreMargin of
victory		Runner-up
1 6 Jul 2022 Altron Big Easy Tour 6
(as an amateur)		 −15 (69-66-66=201) 4 strokes Zambia Dayne Moore

Team appearances

Amateur

Source:[7]

References
  1. Romine, Brentley (15 April 2023). "Tap-in on par 5 seals 59 for 19-year-old South African Casey Jarvis". Golf Channel. Retrieved 19 July 2023.
  2. "GolfRSA Boys seal record World Cup win". GolfRSA. Retrieved 19 July 2023.
  3. "Sixteen Year Old Casey Jarvis Joins South African Greats Claiming Amateur Double". Golf by TourMiss. Retrieved 19 July 2023.
  4. "Jarvis conquers Leopard Creek for African Amateur double". GolfRSA. Retrieved 19 July 2023.
  5. "Casey Jarvis Named Rookie of the Year on the Sunshine Tour". TaylorMade Golf. Retrieved 19 July 2023.
  6. Lambley, Garrin (15 April 2023). "Casey Jarvis shoots 59 to equal Sunshine Tour record". The South African. Retrieved 19 July 2023.
  7. "Casey Jarvis". World Amateur Golf Ranking. Retrieved 19 July 2023.
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