Derek Hitchner survives five-man playoff to win Utah Championship presented by Zions Bank and Intermountain Health

Charting the champion (stats updated through tournament)

Derek Hitchner (first/-21)

• Birdied the first playoff hole (No. 18) to defeat Cole Hammer, Mason Andersen, Travis Trace and Tommy Morrison and claim his first Korn Ferry Tour title in his 18th career start and Utah Championship presented by Zions Bank and Intermountain Health debut
• The five-man playoff matched the largest playoff in Korn Ferry Tour history (five players/2019 Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Kansas Wichita Open)
• Converted his first career 54-hole lead/co-lead into a victory; the win marks his first career top-10 finish on the Korn Ferry Tour, having entered the week without a top 10 in 17 starts
• Closed with a 3-under 67 to total 21-under 259, matching the tournament 72-hole scoring record (259/Karl Vilips/2024/Oakridge Country Club, a par-71 layout at which Vilips finished 25 under) and bettering the previous low 72-hole total in tournament play at Ogden Golf and Country Club by three strokes (262/Julian Suri/2025)
• Carded back-to-back 8-under 62s in the second and third rounds after entering the week having never broken 65 in a Korn Ferry Tour round (previous career low: 65/2026 Club Car Championship at The Landings Golf and Athletic Club); his 54-hole total of 18-under 192, shared with Blades Brown, broke the 54-hole tournament record at Ogden Golf and Country Club (previous record: 194/Robby Shelton and Taylor Montgomery/2025)
• Stood No. 136 on the 2026 Korn Ferry Tour Points List entering the week with eight made cuts in 17 starts; earned 500 points and $180,000 with the victory
• Earned Korn Ferry Tour membership for the first time with a No. 6 finish on the 2025 PGA TOUR Americas Points List; he previously finished No. 30 on the 2024 PGA TOUR Americas Points List and No. 22 on the 2023 PGA TOUR Canada Order of Merit
• Finished No. 14 in the 2023 PGA TOUR University Ranking after five seasons at Pepperdine University (2018-2023), where he earned one individual victory (2023 Western Intercollegiate) and 2023 All-America Second Team honors
• Won the 2021 Trans-Mississippi Amateur, an event whose past champions include Jack Nicklaus (1958, 1959), Ben Crenshaw (1972), Bryson DeChambeau (2013), Collin Morikawa (2015) and Cameron Champ (2017); he was also a semifinalist at the 2022 U.S. Amateur Championship
• The 26-year-old Summit, New Jersey, native resides in Minneapolis, Minnesota, and turned professional in 2023

Additional notes

• All five playoff participants totaled 21-under 259 to match the tournament 72-hole scoring record; Cole Hammer (64-64-67-64), Mason Andersen (63-63-68-65), Travis Trace (64-63-66-66) and Tommy Morrison (65-64-67-63) shared second place.
• Tommy Morrison, who won the Evans Scholars Invitational, closed with a 7-under 63, his 19th consecutive round in the 60s, and fell one playoff hole shy of becoming the seventh player in the last decade to win consecutive Korn Ferry Tour events.
• Mason Andersen was seeking his second Korn Ferry Tour title after winning the 117 Visa Argentina Open presented by Macro in March 2024.
• Ross Steelman (T6/-20), who opened with a course-record-tying 61, closed with an 8-under 62 – the low round of the final round – to finish one stroke out of the playoff at 20-under 260 (61-71-66-62).
• Jackson Van Paris (T6/-20) closed in 7-under 63 to post 20-under 260 (69-64-64-63), playing his final 54 holes in 19-under par.
• Blades Brown (T6/-20) closed with a 2-under 68 to finish one stroke out of the playoff; the 19-year-old, who shared the 54-hole lead, remains in position to become the youngest winner in Korn Ferry Tour history – a mark currently held by Aldrich Potgieter (19 years, 4 months, 11 days/2024 The Bahamas Great Abaco Classic at The Abaco Club).
• Thirty-six-hole leader Chris Francoeur (T9/-19), whose 11-under 59 in Friday’s second round tied the tournament 18-hole scoring record (Will Wilcox/2013/Round 4), closed with a 2-under 68 to record his first career top-10 finish on the Korn Ferry Tour in his 13th career start.
• Ian Holt (T9/-19) carded a 3-under 67; the two-time winner this season remains one victory from the Three-Victory Promotion and an automatic and immediate promotion to the PGA TOUR.
• John Marshall Butler (T15/-18) closed with a 7-under 63 to finish at 18-under 262 (70-62-67-63).
• Brigham Young University alum and Utah native Daniel Summerhays (T50/-13), the lone player with Utah ties to make the cut, closed with a 3-under 67 to finish at 13-under 267 (68-63-69-67).
• Tournament records following the week include: 59 (18-hole/Will Wilcox/2013/Round 4; Chris Francoeur/2026/Round 2), 192 (54-hole at Ogden Golf and Country Club/Derek Hitchner and Blades Brown/2026) and 259 (72-hole/Karl Vilips/2024; matched by five players in 2026).