For the first time in 41 years, three players have won over consecutive appearances in the same season on the DP World Tour.
With his victory at the DS Automobiles 83° Open d'Italia on Sunday, Eugenio Chacarra joined South African pair Jayden Schaper and Casey Jarvis as players to win back-to-back DP World Tour titles.
Since the DP World Tour's inception in 1972, the feat has happened on just three occassions.
It last happened in 1985 when Manuel Piñero, Graham Marsh and Bernhard Langer each won over back-to-back starts.
It first happened during the Tour's inaugural campaign, when Marsh became the first to win twice in a row as his fellow Australian Jack Newton and then New Zealander Bob Charles emulated him later that year.
To win on the DP World Tour is hard enough, let alone winning multiple times, but to win over consecutive appearances is a rare feat.
Since the inception of the DP World Tour 1972, only two players have ever won three DP World Tour events on the bounce: Sir Nick Faldo and the late, great Seve Ballesteros in 1983 and 1986 respectively.
A chance to add his name to the history books and became the third such player is what awaits the in-form Chacarra this week at the BMW International Open.
Prior to the start of the ongoing season, the last time we saw players win on back-to-back starts came during the early weeks of the 2024 campaign when Dean Burmester and then his South African counterpart Louis Oosthuizen lifted titles.
But in a sign of just how exceptional the achievement is, that was the first time we saw more than one back-to-back winner in one season since Thomas Bjørn and Sergio Garcia in 2011.
In total, there have been 33 seasons where players have won back-to-back events on the DP World Tour.
2026's back-to-back winners
With victory on home soil at the Alfred Dunhill Championship in December, Schaper became the third first-time winner on the DP World Tour of the 2026 season after David Puig and Rasmus Neergaard-Petersen.
Edging out countryman and defending champion Shaun Norris in a play-off, Schaper produced what helater described as "probably one of the shots of my career" from a fairway bunker in the play-off to realise a major career breakthrough.
A week later, he again triumphed in a play-off - this time against American Ryan Gerrard - at the AfrAsia Bank Mauritius Open to close out 2025 and the Opening Swing in style.
During the International Swing it was the turn of Jarvis, who claimed his maiden DP World Tour title at the Magical Kenya Open presented by absa on his home continent of Africa.
The very next week, he celebrated success on home soil at the Investec South African Open - a victory that secured him exemptions into the Masters Tournament and The Open.
While there was no back-to-back winner during the Asian Swing, Chacarra realised consecutive triumphs during the European Swing.
After winning his first DP World Tour title as an invite at the Hero Indian Open in 2025, he made a birdie at the 18th to claim a one-stroke victory at the KLM Open at The International.
Absent from the U.S. Open, the Spaniard continued his fine form - which includes a run of eight made cuts in a row which began with a runner-up finish on his title defence in India - to claim an assured five-stroke victory in Italy.
