Rickie Fowler almost secured a historic rally on Sunday afternoon at Quail Hollow. But his run came just a little too late.<\/p>\n
With the longtime fan favorite sitting in the clubhouse, it was instead Kristoffer Reitan who surged ahead to secure his inaugural PGA Tour win at the famed North Carolina golf course.<\/p>\n
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Reitan posted a 2-under 69 in his final round to grab a two-shot win at the Truist Championship. It marked the first victory of his Tour career and extended his status on Tour for the next two years after he made it in through DP World Tour qualifying last year.<\/p>\n
\u201cI don\u2019t have any words, to be honest. This is way more than I expected,\u201d Reitan said on CBS after his win. \u201cFor it to happen this quickly is just unreal. It\u2019s a dream come true.\u201d<\/p>\n
For a minute there, it looked like Fowler was going to grab his first win in years. Fowler, after starting the day seven shots off the lead, made the turn on Sunday at 5-under on his round and then took the solo lead late on his back nine. He was eyeing his first Tour win since 2024. But Fowler pulled a birdie putt at the 16th and bogeyed the last hole, too, to close out his 6-under 65. That sent him into the clubhouse one back of a trio in the lead.<\/p>\n
Though Fowler has struggled to get it done in recent years, he\u2019s been knocking at the door all season. He made four top-20 finishes in his first five events this year, and he entered this week off back-to-back top-10 runs \u2014 including a T9 finish at last week\u2019s Cadillac Championship. He entered the week at No. 52 in the Official World Golf Rankings, too, which was his best ranking since mid-2024.<\/p>\n
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But with Fowler sitting inside, Reitan made back-to-back birdies himself, and then took a two-shot lead after Alex Fitzpatrick made double at the par-3 17th. Reitan easily reached the 18th in regulation, and settled for a tap-in par to wrap his day and secure his win. In total, he made 11 birdies and an eagle on the back nine at Quail Hollow this week.<\/p>\n
Reitan, who finished T41 at the Masters last month, now has three top-10 finishes in his last five starts after Sunday\u2019s win. He\u2019s won twice on the DP World Tour in his career, too, and finished eighth in the European circuit\u2019s standings last season to earn a spot on Tour this year.<\/p>\n
Fowler finished in a tie for second with Nicolai H\u00f8jgaard at 13-under on the week. Fitzpatrick, who posted a 2-over 73 on Sunday, finished alone in fourth.<\/p>\n
Here\u2019s a look at how much Reitan and the rest of the field earned this week at Quail Hollow.<\/p>\n
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2026 Truist Championship payouts<\/p>\n
1. Kristoffer Reitan \u2014 $3.6 million
T2. Rickie Fowler, Nicolai H\u00f8jgaard \u2014 $1.76 million
4. Alex Fitzpatrick \u2014 $960,000
T5. Tommy Fleetwood, Sungjae Im, J.J. Spaun \u2014 $730,000
T8. Ludvig \u00c5berg, Harry Hall \u2014 $600,000
T10. Patrick Cantlay, Matt McCarty, Cameron Young \u2014 $500,000
13. Justin Thomas \u2014 $420,000
T14. Min Woo Lee, Chris Gotterup, Nick Taylor \u2014 $360,000
T17. Alex Smalley, Gary Woodland \u2014 $310,000
T19. Austin Smotherman, Rory McIlroy, Keegan Bradley, Sudarshan Yellamaraju, Kurt Kitayama \u2014 $242,100
T24. Patrick Rodgers, Pierceson Coody, Adam Scott, Andrew Novak, Harris English, J.T. Poston, David Lipsky \u2014 $156,643
T31. Brian Harman, Viktor Hovland, Alex Noren, Tony Finau, Nico Echavarria, Corey Conners \u2014 $114,417
T37. Sam Burns, Maverick McNealy, Akshay Bhatia, Taylor Pendrith, Matt Wallace, Andrew Putnam, Bud Cauley, Lucas Glover \u2014 $82,188
T45. Justin Rose, Daniel Berger, Ryo Hisatsune \u2014 $60,000
T48. Denny McCarthy, Aldrich Potgieter, Webb Simpson, Michael Kim \u2014 $50,000
T52. Mackenzie Hughes, Max Homa, Brian Campbell, Jhonattan Vegas, Matt Fitzpatrick, Chandler Blanchet, Jordan Spieth, Jacob Bridgeman \u2014 $45,188
T60. Xander Schauffele, Robert MacIntyre, Ricky Castillo \u2014 $42,500
T63. Ben Griffin, Sepp Straka \u2014 $41,250
T65. Ryan Gerard, Si Woo Kim \u2014 $40,250
67. Ryan Fox \u2014 $39,500
68. Jason Day \u2014 $39,000
69. Sahith Theegala \u2014 $38,000
70. Sam Stevens \u2014 $37,500
71. Hideki Matsuyama \u2014 $37,000
72. Tom Hoge \u2014 $36,000<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Rickie Fowler almost secured a historic rally on Sunday afternoon at Quail Hollow. But his run came just…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":635574,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[71],"tags":[268247,13037,427,195630,18609,3332,273312,26795,99,274514,272734,4200],"class_list":["post-635573","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-golf","tag-alex-fitzpatrick","tag-dp-world-tour","tag-golf","tag-kristoffer-reitan","tag-matt-fitzpatrick","tag-pga-tour","tag-quail-hollow","tag-rickie-fowler","tag-sports","tag-tour-career","tag-truist-championship","tag-win"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/635573","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=635573"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/635573\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/635574"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=635573"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=635573"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=635573"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}