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Just a few weeks ago, Kristoffer Reitan was not even qualified to participate in the PGA Tour's signature events. Now, he finds himself raising a trophy. Reitan emerged from a crowded leaderboard Sunday at Quail Hollow Club to grab his inaugural victory on the PGA Tour at the 2026 Truist Championship, edging the field by two strokes.
Reitan fired a final-round 69 to finish the tournament at 15 under and usurp 54-hole leader and playing partner Alex Fitzpatrick. His final tally was enough to push him past Rickie Fowler and Nicolai Højgaard as Fitzpatrick fell off the pace late.
With the win, Reitan becomes just the second player from Norway to win on the PGA Tour, joining Viktor Hovland. He now stands alongside players like Fowler, Rory McIlroy, Wyndham Clark and Max Homa, who made Quail Hollow the site of their first PGA Tour wins.
The triumph secures Reitan's playing privileges on the PGA Tour through the 2028 season and pushes his name all the way up to No. 13 in the FedEx Cup standings.
For Reitan, this run started at the Zurich Classic, where he finished runner-up to the Fitzpatrick brothers alongside fellow Norwegian Kris Ventura. The result was enough to make him the first alternate at the Cadillac Championship, where he was able to enter the field after Jake Knapp withdrew due to injury.
Reitan made the most of his opportunity and finished T14, which was enough to get him into the field at the Truist Championship.
Entering the final round one stroke off the pace of Fitzpatrick, Reitan found himself among a clustered chasing pack attempting to chase down the Englishman. By the time he walked off the fourth green with his first birdie of the afternoon, Reitan had caught Fitzpatrick, but two straight bogeys on his next two holes brought the world back into the tournament.
Fowler mounted a charge and played his first 10 holes in 6 under just as players like Tommy Fleetwood, J.J. Spaun and Harry Hall all made their way up the leaderboard. Even Fitzpatrick fought hard with birdies on Nos. 10, 12 and 13 to climb back into a share of the lead, but Reitan remained steady.
An influx of pars infiltrated his scorecard during the middle portion of his round before birdie putts from 6 feet and 7 feet found the bottom of the cup on Nos. 14-15. The lead was his as he entered The Green Mile, and it stayed that way thanks to a clutch par save from inside 12 feet on No. 16.
While the putter posed as his greatest ally down the stretch, Reitan's full swing put the tournament on ice across the final two holes as he navigated the ever-lurking danger around Quail Hollow. In doing so, he navigated one of the best fields of the PGA Tour season and nabbed the first win of his PGA Tour career. Grade: A+
Here are the rest of the notable names on the leaderboard at the 2026 Truist Championship.
T2. Rickie Fowler (-13): Started the final round seven strokes back of Fitzpatrick and immediately put a charge into the final round. Fowler found eight birdies on his scorecard on Sunday with those on Nos. 14-15 giving him the solo lead heading into the Green Mile. He flagged his approach into No. 16 only to miss his 6-foot birdie bid before missing a 10-foot par attempt on the last to fall back to 6 under for the round and 13 under for the championship. He now has three straight top 10s in signature events and looks primed to get back into the winner's circle for the first time since 2023. Grade: A
4. Alex Fitzpatrick (-12): A nervy start turned into a nervy front nine for the younger Fitzpatrick brother. Holding the solo 54-hole lead, Fitzpatrick was immediately punched in the face by carding a double bogey and a bogey across his first three holes. Going from leader to chaser, he started to string together more quality golf shots. Even with three putts on Nos. 7-8, Fitzpatrick climbed back into a share of the lead thanks to long-distance connections for birdies on Nos. 10, 12 and 13. Missed scoring chances on Nos. 14-15 may have cost him his second win in his last three starts, but another week on the PGA Tour and another showing to show that he belongs. Grade: A-
T5. Tommy Fleetwood (-11): Appeared to be his day when he chipped in for birdie on No. 8, but only then did he run into some trouble. Fleetwood failed to birdie either of the par 5s on the back nine and carded a pair of bogeys in the process -- one courtesy of a poor wedge on No. 11 and another because of a poor drive on the difficult 16th. After a fall where he found himself in contention in seemingly every tournament, Fleetwood got the juices flowing for the first time in a while at a convenient time, given next week's major championship. Grade: B+
T10. Cameron Young (-9): Was biding his time before a Saturday 63 shot his name onto the first page of the leaderboard. Young was the presence to keep tabs on at the onset of the final round, but his putter ultimately betrayed him early and often. He had a 4-putt double bogey from inside 15 feet on No. 2 and needed three putts for par on the par-5 7th. Even with his issues on the greens, the two-time winner this season still had a chance on the back nine but was unable to score, as the well apparently dried up for him on Saturday. Grade: B
T19. Rory McIlroy (-5): McIlroy's week featured a little bit of everything. He nearly experienced a career first on Thursday with 17 straight pars out of the blocks. On Friday, he looked like the McIlroy who has dominated at Quail Hollow his entire career. Then on Saturday, he had one of the worst rounds of his career. He finished his tournament with a 67 that could have been even better as he was 5 under through his first 10 holes. There are some things to tighten up, but all in all, the game remains in solid shape.
"I hit the ball better. I started to hit it left yesterday with everything," McIlroy said. "I spent a good bit of time on the range last night just trying to straighten it out. The range this week, the wind is predominantly been off the left, so I think when you hit a lot of balls in a left-to-right wind, you start to aim a little bit left, your club face can get a little bit closed at impact just to try to counteract that wind.
"So, hitting balls the last five or six days in that left-to-right wind on the range, I just started to miss some left on the course. So I was trying to figure it out a little bit on the range last night, which I felt like I did, and I hit the ball much better today." Grade: C
