Chris Gotterup opened 2026 with a win.<\/p>\n
Gotterup overtook Davis Riley and ran away with the Sony Open in Hawaii on Sunday, claiming the first tournament of the new PGA Tour season. Gotterup posted a 6-under 64 in the final round at Waialae Country Club in Honolulu, which got him to 16-under on the week. That gave him a two-shot win over the field, and secured a $1.638 million payday.<\/p>\n
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Riley entered Sunday with the lead, and he made two birdies in his first five holes of the day to keep that going. But he fell apart just before making the turn. Riley went 4-over in a three-hole stretch, which included a rough double bogey after he landed in a drainage ditch with his drive on the par-4 eighth. That opened the door for Gotterup, who posted a 3-under 32 on his front nine and broke open a three-shot lead on the back nine despite starting the day two shots behind Riley.<\/p>\n
Gotterup then stuck his tee shot pin-high and sank a nearly 12-footer at the par-3 17th to push his lead back to three shots, good enough to eventually secure his win.<\/p>\n
Ryan Gerard, who birdied the final hole himself, finished alone in second at 14-under for the week. Patrick Rodgers finished in third at 13-under.<\/p>\n
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Gotterup has now won three times in his career on Tour, once in each of the past three seasons. He had four top-10 finishes on Tour last season, and entered this week at No. 28 in the Official World Golf Rankings.<\/p>\n
The Tour started with the Sony Open this season after The Sentry, which normally kicks off each campaign, was canceled due to a recent drought on Maui. With the Hawaii leg of the season cut in half, the Tour will now head to Southern California for The American Express next weekend.<\/p>\n
Here\u2019s a look at how much Gotterup and the rest of the field earned this week in Hawaii.<\/p>\n
2026 Sony Open in Hawaii payouts<\/p>\n
1. Chris Gotterup \u2014 $1.638 million
2. Ryan Gerard \u2014 $991,900
3. Patrick Rodgers \u2014 $627,900
T4. Rob MacIntyre, Jacob Bridgeman \u2014 $409,500
T6. Daniel Berger, Taylor Pendrith, Lee Hodges, Davis Riley, Harry Hall \u2014 $287,105
T11. Jake Knapp, Si Woo Kim \u2014 $220,675
T13. Pierceson Coody, Sudarshan Yellamaraju, Hideki Matsuyama, S.H. Kim, Nick Taylor, Kevin Roy \u2014 $163,042
T19. Dan Brown, Ben Griffin, Chandler Phillips, Russell Henley, John Parry \u2014 $111,839
T24. Maverick McNealy, Patton Kizzire, Kensei Hirata, Bud Cauley, Adrien Dumont de Chassart, Jordan Spieth, Corey Conners \u2014 $72,475
T31. Seamus Power, Michael Kim, Brice Garnett, Ren Yonezawa, Sahith Theegala, Takumi Kenaya, Dylan Wu, Sam Stevens, Ricky Castillo \u2014 $49,898
T40. J.J. Spaun, Denny McCarthy, Tom Hoge, Mac Meissner, Vince Whaley, Kurt Kitayama, Adam Scott, Vijay Singh, Alex Smalley, Adam Svensson \u2014 $31,522
T50. Aaron Rai, Emilio Gonzalez, David Ford, Zac Blair, Rico Hoey \u2014 $22,404
T55. Matthieu Pavon, Zecheng Dou, Webb Simpson, Doug Ghim, Haotong Li, Matt McCarty \u2014 $20,930
T61. Zach Johnson, Nick Dunlap, Brian Harman, Tom Kim, Johnny Keefer \u2014 $19,929
T66. Keith Mitchell, Jordan Smith, Joe Highsmith, Mark Hubbard \u2014 $19,110
70. Zach Bauchou \u2014 $18,655
T71. Chad Ramey, William Mouw \u2014 $18,382
73. Kota Kaneko \u2014 $18,109
74. Billy Horschel \u2014 $17,927<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Chris Gotterup opened 2026 with a win. Gotterup overtook Davis Riley and ran away with the Sony Open…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":529298,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[43650,233083,1430,1513,233085,230089,227737,62,67,132,68,184321],"class_list":{"0":"post-529297","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-golf","8":"tag-chris-gotterup","9":"tag-davis-riley","10":"tag-golf","11":"tag-nick-taylor","12":"tag-patrick-rodgers","13":"tag-ryan-gerard","14":"tag-sony-open-in-hawaii","15":"tag-sports","16":"tag-united-states","17":"tag-unitedstates","18":"tag-us","19":"tag-waialae-country-club"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115926215052565396","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/529297","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=529297"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/529297\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/529298"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=529297"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=529297"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=529297"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}