PGA Tour: Truist Championship : Leaderboard Results
Sunday afternoon with a $20,000,000 purse on the line, two players fresh off their careers on the DP World Tour who are in America, playing the PGA Tour as a result of the Strategic Alliance between the tours formed in 2023 has come to fruition again.
In 2024 French journeyman Mattieu Pavon was the first, making world headlines with his surprise victory at the Farmers Insurance on Torrey Pines, the first Frenchman to do so
Now long hitting modest Norwegian 69 -15, Kristoffer Reitan, unknown in the US, outlasted England's Alex Fitzpatrick to become the first from his country to win the Truist Championship at venerable Quail Hollow, while Fitzpatrick with one loose swing at the par 17th which cost him a double bogey finished 73 4th -13 $960,000
I don't have words to be honest, this is way more that I expected, for it to come this quickly is unreal, yeah, its a dream come true"
The"it"Reitan is referring to is a PGA Tour jackpot. $3,600,000, 2 years exemption, entry all signature events and all majors, T25 owgr
He thanked his parents watching past midnight at home in skiing and soccer mad Norway for "making golf a priority in the family" spending every Christmas in Spain so he could play and practice away from the cold and snow, as he made his way along with Viktor Hovland quietly through their junior ranks.
Another from the DP World Tour, Nicholas Hojgaard T2 68 -13 $1,760,000 with always popular Rickie Fowler 65 -13 T2. $1,760,000
Tommy Fleetwood continued the European theme T5 -11 $730,000 with South Korean Sunjae Im 70 -1.$730,000
Canadians
Nick Taylor T14 66, 73, 68 68 -7 $360,000
Sudarshan Yellamaraju T19 71, 69 69 70 -5 $242,100
Corey Conners T31 -4 67, 72. 70 72 -3 $114,416
Taylor Pendrith T37 -1 71,71. 70 70 -2 $82,187
Mac Hughes T52 +6 71,75, 73 66 +1 $45,187
For all the scores and prize money click on my Results link
PGA Championship
This week is the 2nd major of the year at Aronimink GC outside Philadelphia where Scott Scheffler is the defending champion.
There are 4 Canadians in the field with current owgr, Corey Conners #50 Nick Taylor #58 and Taylor Pendrith #86.
Rookie Sudarshan Yellamaraju #105 was 1st alternative, but when Reitan won this week, the Canadian takes his place in the field..
Bryan Angus
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