Kristoffer Reitan and Rasmus Neergaard-Petersen both won on the DP World Tour on Sunday, 13 months after they battled it out for glory at the 2024 Rolex Grand Final supported by The R&A.
Reitan became a two-time winner on Golf’s Global Tour at the Nedbank Golf Challenge in honour of Gary Player in South Africa, just hours after his fellow graduate and 2024 Road to Mallorca Number One, Neergaard-Petersen, joined the DP World Tour winner’s circle for the first time at the Crown Australian Open.
It was another outstanding weekend for the duo to cap a remarkable 13 months, with both players having gone from the HotelPlanner Tour to holding dual membership with the PGA TOUR in that time.
In 2024, Dane Neergaard-Petersen and Norwegian Reitan, arrived at the season-ending Rolex Grand Final in contrasting positions on the Road to Mallorca Rankings.
For Neergaard-Petersen, promotion to the DP World Tour was already secure after a stellar debut campaign saw him win three times to earn automatic promotion. The 26-year-old topped the Rankings with only the season-finale to play, and had his eyes firmly fixed on ending the season in the same place.
Reitan meanwhile, sat 36th in the Rankings and needed to produce the week of his life to ensure his place on Golf’s Global Tour the following year.
With the season on the line, and one round to play at Club de Golf Alcanada, it was finely poised. Neergaard-Petersen led by one from Spaniard Angel Ayora, with Reitan a further two shots behind in third.
After a birdie-eagle start to the final round, Reitan moved alongside Neergaard-Petersen at the top, but after bogeys at the fourth and tenth, would move four shots adrift. He would respond with birdies at 11, 13 and 15 to stay in contention and set the clubhouse lead on 23 under as the duo battled down the stretch.
It would end up being Reitan’s day, as the Norwegian secured a maiden HotelPlanner Tour title when it mattered most, winning by one shot from Neergaard-Petersen, a result that was enough to see Neergaard-Petersen end the year as the Number One.
Fast forward 13 months and the pair have flourished on the DP World Tour. Reitan became a winner at the Soudal Open to go with seven other top tens as he ended the 2025 Race to Dubai in seventh.
Neergaard-Petersen amassed eight top ten finishes of his own to end the year 15th on the Race to Dubai, and claimed the final PGA TOUR card with a third-place finish at the DP World Tour Championship last month.
Victories at the weekend saw both players make sure of their place in the field at August National for The Masters Tournament next year, with Reitan climbing to a career-high 33rd in the Official World Golf Ranking, up from 617th prior to the 2024 Rolex Grand Final, and Neergaard-Petersen also at a career-high 51st.
