Darius Van Driel’s Winning Highlights | 2024 Magical Kenya Open

Darius Van Driel’s winning highlights from the Magical Kenya Open.

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The DP World Tour returns to Africa for the first time this year as Muthaiga Golf Club plays host to the fifth edition of the Magical Kenya Open. Rikuya Hoshino will be in the field and begins the week second on the Race to Dubai Rankings. He’s had a couple of strong weeks with a 12T finish at the Bahrain Championship and claimed victory last week at the Commercial Bank Qatar Masters. Thriston Lawrence will also be in Kenya this week. The four-time DP World Tour winner has a good record in Africa winning the Joburg Open in 2021, before adding the Investec South African Open Championship a year later. He also started the season well registering no worse than a tie for 11th in his first three starts to the season. He also claimed 2T here in 2022. Ewen Ferguson will also fancy his chances this week. He’s claimed two top-10s over four tournaments to start the year including a 9T at last week’s Commercial Bank Qatar Masters.

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Little bit of landing area nice flat light at the bottom and we give it eight out of 10 pretty good effort it’s all about Pace he knows he going to slide a little bit from left to right not much if you hit it with a bit a head of

Steam well done crunch puts those ones early on in the final round when challenging yeah nice nerve settler because he does he does look a little edgy and it’s understandable 91 yards pin on almost looks like it’s Mr Green it’s so tight to the right at the front bit better perfectly played h

V right so started the same 433 excellent stuff nice settler there oh that’s just that length part just what you need six AR for most that’s not the the spot if you get a Miss he didn’t do it deliberately obviously but not the side lovely

Been very tight R just got to be a little careful he’s played an absolute belter there there’s Darius vanre not much movement particularly if it firmly there’s not many threes at number eight even on an easy day like today such a nice opportunity there wasn’t it to grab the lead on his

Own this is the worst Li you’re going to see this week it’s horrendous it’s like it’s in the ice plant ball below his feet oh really goug it wower that’s shot of the week without any down unbelievable from a horrendous lie ball way below his feet

Up the slope on this screen but oh it’s a ticklish one tricky one to read just going to grab this to the by the side you just need to be a little bit more positive a little bit more aggressive and he knows it always a tricky drive this one as

Soon as you put a drive in your hand you got to be very accurate you can run through the Fairway so easily on the left well the slight lean left suggests it’s going right second shot on its way to this pin on the left hand side it’s

Okay after you hit a drive like that you’ve got to make your fall Eagle chance can if we hit it past the cup it’s pretty quick got to be careful come on come on oh brilliant but what a time to do that for Darius fendel amazing one birdie prior to this

No Bogies and boom 13 under and two ahead at the moment as they say in the trade this has got to be pinpoint accurate it’s pretty good from that was a difficult situation yeah pulled yeah up and out of it faster than we’ve seen on any Peto

For the nerves well that’s right they like you were saying they do test you don’t they those ones he’s got a very metronomic Rhythm I like here Tick Tock starts it right is it coming back yes it is very nicely done hello hello hello and he’s done

It what a great pat wow back to 13 under this is fantastic stuff because if you think he’s not nervous you don’t know what it’s like little Zephyr of Breeze in his face How brave is he going to be well if it was flat

Cal you had a w your nine on you’d be going at that flag all day long but with that little bit of Breeze into your face that little bit of doubt that’s what happens it’s a pretty good effort it was it was good for line as well it cuz when

The nerves start jangling the first two things that go are your Rhythm and your touch a beautiful beautiful P nice tidy t-shot level and stance and everything 186 yards been on six just get the perfect little of draw shape to get out here oh he’s warming to his task isn’t he Darius

Fel as I say to get this close with the second shot here is a darn good one where it’s tucked in a little front left portion well he had the line didn’t he but a foot short just doesn’t want to go left and he knew it that’s okay it’s a tough part three

16 up the hill down the other side that is Oh What A P what a fantastic p and that makes little bit easier that was world class wasn’t it world class yeah he doesn’t want to hover around too long does he F three what a glorious scene the 17th is really

Is brings back memories from the my days of playing colorful crowd all banked up behind the players it really is a cracking Golf Course been a good week’s golf both these two players left the same distance 102 yards pin right on the front edge guarded by the water

G just exactly where he’s aiming pretty impressive stuff little down the grain maybe a hair moving from his right well it’s not too bad that you can not that on and two put it and still take it Beauty it is the chip of the champion and with aart from just about what a

Couple of inches Darius vanriel of the Netherlands at the age of 34 grabs his first DP World Tour title he said at the end of play yesterday that it will be a dream it’s always been his dream to win on the DP World Tour well Darius dreams do come

True the 2024 magical Kenya open Champion that will sound good darus congratulations last year you lost your card you won it straight back at Q school and now your maiden title on the DP World Tour comes here in Kenya what does it mean uh it means a lot sorry I

Never thought it would like hit that hard but uh no it’s a it’s a dream come true it’s uh I could have kept my tions cool the whole round but uh after that last put it’s it’s all coming out there are key moments in every winning round

On a Sunday on the DP world tour let’s talk about that eagle and 10 how significant was that moment um well I I saw that everybody was around 10 uh obviously Manuel was also around there so in my head it was a little bit of a 1

V one um so you know me making Eagle he making part it was a bit of a difference so yeah know that was uh that was good one yeah you started the day tied for the lead standing on the 16th T you had a two- shot lead we know here at mea

It’s an infamously tricky tight closing stretch give us an idea of how you were handling your emotions coming down there on 18 I mean look around look at these crowds were you able to enjoy it at all yeah I did you know maybe from the

Outside it looks cool but uh you know it was very calculated I thought uh you know 17 is is a reasonable birdie hle uh 18 obviously a good bird your Eagle opportunity so I I thought in my head maybe 12 13 so uh you know if I can get

To 14 I’m I’m I’m pretty safe uh is the number I what I had in my head at the starter round as well so uh you know I got to minus 14 so that’s all I uh all I wanted to do and what does this mean for

You now for your career and also to to bag a win so early on in the 2024 season uh well obviously with a challeng for category or sorry for a qool category you can’t play the events um you know uh I made a schedule obviously uh excluding

The Rolex event so uh I don’t know if I can get into those you know I don’t know but if so uh I’m going to change my schedule a little bit and uh yeah hopefully uh I can pull this line up huge huge congratulations very well played thanks a wonderful victory for fan

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