Jayden Schaper was headed closer to being inside the world’s top 300 with a 26-place rise in the latest list issued by the Official World Golf Ranking after his share of 13th in last week’s DP World Tour tournament.
Although he stumbled to a closing two-over-par finish in the European Open in Germany, Schaper climbed from 330th to 304th after what was generally a pretty solid week for the South African.
He is now approaching his career-high ranking of 274th which he reached after finishing in a share of 20th in the 2021 Kenya Savannah Classic on the DP World Tour. Since then, he has been as low at 623rd, but he has had some recent performances that have put him on an upward trend again – so much so that he has leapfrogged Casey Jarvis, Jacques Kruyswijk and Louis de Jager on the list of South Africa’s top 25 players according to the official rankings.
Also getting a nice boost from his performance on the DP World Tour was Thriston Lawrence. His share of second in Germany gave him a 14-place bump on the rankings back inside the world’s 100 at 92nd.
South Africa’s top players remain Christiaan Bezuidenhout, who is unchanged at 57th, and Erik van Rooyen, who was down two places to 67th after his share of 42nd in the PGA Tour’s RBC Canadian Open.
South Africa’s top 25:
- Christiaan Bezuidenhout 57 (unchanged)
- Erik van Rooyen 67 (down 2)
- Thriston Lawrence 92 (up 14)
- Dean Burmester 109 (down 1)
- Zander Lombard 124 (down 3)
- Louis Oosthuizen 132 (down 2)
- Garrick Higgo 205 (down 1)
- Hennie du Plessis 230 (up 3)
- Dylan Frittelli 246 (up 1)
- Ryan van Velzen 289 (down 3)
- Ockie Strydom 301 (up 5)
- Jayden Schaper 304 (up 26)
- Casey Jarvis 308 (down 6)
- Jacques Kruyswijk 328 (down 12)
- Louis de Jager 333 (down 14)
- Shaun Norris 336 (down 1)
- Deon Germishuys 345 (down 3)
- Aldrich Potgieter 350 (down 4)
- Jaco Ahlers 366 (down 4)
- Brandon Stone 369 (down 6)
- Oliver Bekker 380 (down 6)
- Wilco Nienaber 373 (down 2)
- Darren Fichardt 378 (down 11)
- Robin Williams 381 (down 3)
- Jbe’ Kruger 426 (down 14)
