Kristoffer Reitan (born 8 March 1998) is a Norwegian

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and

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player. In 2018, he become the first Norwegian to play in the U.S. Open. He won the 2024 Rolex Challenge Tour Grand Final and the 2025 Belgian Open.

Amateur career

Reitan had a successful amateur career and won the Valderrama Boys Invitational, Italian International U16 Championship, Skandia Junior Open and the Junior Orange Bowl Championship. As part of the national team he represented Norway at the European Young Masters, European Boys' Team Championship and the European Amateur Team Championship. In 2014, he won the Toyota Junior Golf World Cup together with Viktor Hovland. He teamed up with Hovland again for the 2018 Eisenhower Trophy, where they finished fifth. He also represented Europe at the 2018 Junior Ryder Cup and 2018 Bonallack Trophy, and won the 2016

Jacques Léglise Trophy The Jacques Léglise Trophy is an annual amateur boys' team golf competition between Great Britain & Ireland and the Continent of Europe. It was first played in 1977, as a one-day match before the Boys Amateur Championship, but since 1996 it has ...

. He finished runner-up at the opening event of the 2017 Nordic Golf League, behind Florian Fritsch. Reitan signed a letter of intent to play college golf for the

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starting in the fall of 2017, but later decided to forego college and turn professional instead. Still a 20-year-old amateur, Reitan secured a spot at the 2018 U.S. Open through the

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sectional qualifier, to become the first Norwegian to play in the U.S. Open.

Professional career

Reitan turned professional after he earned the 26th card at the 2018 European Tour Qualifying School, the only amateur to earn a card. In his rookie season on the European Tour, his best finish was a tie for fifth at the

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in Australia, where he shared the lead after round one. He ended the season 141st in the rankings, retaining conditional status. He tied for 5th at the 2020 Italian Open. In 2024, after joining the

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, he was 3rd at the

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, runner-up at the

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, and won the Rolex Challenge Tour Grand Final, to graduate to the

by finishing 7th in the rankings. In April 2025, he was runner-up at the

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in China, three strokes behind

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. In May, he claimed his first European Tour title, at the

Soudal Open The Belgian Open is a men's golf tournament which has been played intermittently from 1910 to 2000. All editions since 1978 have been part of the European Tour. After not having been played since 2000, it returned in 2018 as the Belgian Knockout, h ...

. Starting the final round nine strokes off the lead, Reitan shot a course-record 62 and posted 13-under for the tournament to ultimately enter a three-man playoff. Reitan birdied the second extra hole to defeat

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and 54-hole leader

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Amateur wins

*2013 Valderrama Boys Invitational, Italian International U16 Championship *2014 Skandia Junior Open *2015 Junior Orange Bowl Championship Source:

Professional wins (2)

European Tour wins (1)

European Tour playoff record (1–0)

Challenge Tour wins (1)

Results in major championships

CUT = missed the half-way cut

Team appearances

Amateur * European Young Masters (representing Norway): 2013, 2014 * European Boys' Team Championship (representing Norway): 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016 *

Junior Golf World Cup The Toyota Junior Golf World Cup () is a junior golf championship held each summer in Japan for national teams of golfers 18 and under from around the globe. Qualifying events are held on six continents to determine the 12 boys’ teams and nine g ...

(representing Norway): 2014 (winners), 2015 *

(representing Continental Europe): 2014, 2015, 2016 (winners) * European Amateur Team Championship (representing Norway):

2017 2017 was designated as the International Year of Sustainable Tourism for Development by the United Nations General Assembly. Events January * January 1 – Istanbul nightclub shooting: A gunman dressed as Santa Claus opens fire at the ...

* Bonallack Trophy (representing Europe): 2018 * Junior Ryder Cup (representing Europe): 2018 *

Eisenhower Trophy The Eisenhower Trophy (World Men's Amateur Team Championships) is the biennial World Amateur Team Championship for men organized by the International Golf Federation. Since the tournament was first played in 1958 Eisenhower Trophy, 1958, it is nam ...

(representing Norway):

2018 Events January * January 1 – Bulgaria takes over the Presidency of the Council of the European Union, after the Estonian presidency. * January 4 – SPLM-IO rebels loyal to Chan Garang Lual start a raid against Juba, capital of ...

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References

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* * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Reitan, Kristoffer Norwegian male golfers European Tour golfers Golfers from Oslo 1998 births Living people 21st-century Norwegian sportsmen