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Kristoffer Reitan paid an emotional tribute to his dad and mom after claiming his first PGA Tour title — with the victory arriving on the most becoming of days: Mother’s Day.

With Mother’s Day offering the right backdrop, Reitan was requested what it meant to have his dad and mom witness him residing out his dream on the PGA Tour. “It’s amazing,” he responded.

“I mean, they have made golf a very, very high priority in our household. Every single Christmas we would go somewhere where I could play golf or compete. So they have definitely made a great, great effort to at least help me get to the place I am today and I couldn’t be more grateful.”

Reitan is the grandson of Odd Reitan, the 74-year-old Norwegian retail magnate whose Reitangruppen empire, one of Scandinavia’s largest grocery and comfort store chains using 38,000 people, is valued at close to $9 billion.

His father Magnus oversees a important arm of the business. Reitan also got here close to strolling away from the game and pursuing a profession in YouTube golf, yet he persevered on the aggressive tour.

“No, it helped me find my game again,” Reitan said of the self-doubt he once harbored about his skilled profession.

“It helped me discover my talents again. Yeah, that was something really important to me, which I try to remind myself of every single day. So that was definitely a huge thing for me getting back and starting to play some good golf again.”

The $3.6 million Reitan pocketed on Sunday is substantial by any measure, yet when stacked against the family fortune he stands to finally inherit, it quantities to a mere drop in the bucket.

His whole PGA Tour earnings prior to Sunday’s victory stood at roughly $1.67 million across 14 occasions.