Palm Harbour, Florida-VikTor Hovland, moments after winning his first PGA Tour championship in 18 months, after he returned from three shots with five players to play the top 10 player in the world for the Valspar Championship.
If there was a moment to declare himself, to say that every change in the swing and training that he put through him since 2023 Rider Cup was completely worth it because here with the cup adjacent to him, this was the matter.
But as much as it was clear that Hofelland, 27 -year -old Norwegian was that this easy smile was flashing, she was happy, I had to ask him, “How happy you are with your swing now?”
“Yes, it’s still unjust,” said Hofelland. “… the club is no longer in a great place for me. It is not only what it was. So I can’t really rely on my old feeling anymore because the club is in a different place and I must change my version style to make this work.”
Well, well, I have succeeded. Results on the process, right? Hovland just played four consecutive rounds under the Equal Feet in the Copperhead course, including Sunday 67 with Birdies on two difficult holes To the edge of Justin Thomas with a stroke. No, not much.
“I think this is something I am very proud that I can appear at the PgA Tour event in one of the most difficult golf courses that we play throughout the year and still win the best I have … but at the same time, this game makes the game more tired than I think it should be.”
Viktor Hovland, to the right, walk outside the eighteenth starting point with Caddy Shay Knight. (Douglas P. Defelice / Getty Images)
This, in essence, which is Viktor Hovland and why he believed he was able to move from a relatively secondary golf state like Norway to Oklahoma to the PGA tour and has great success. On Sunday was his seventh victory in the PGA tour, including the round championship, and has three of the five best finishes in The Majors in the past three years.
Not enough to be good. It is not enough to flirt with great. He seeks something here, and why is this a problem?
“I find it strange that we are professional athletes and people who want to improve them are considered somewhat,” Oh, it’s perfect, it comes out of the ocean who is looking for a lot. “This is what we do, we are here to improve, and we are here to win the championships.
There is something to be admired there. The secret fact of the PGA tour is that the money is good enough so that you do not have to win to create yourself and your family well. For years, the tour worked in a way that if your card kept for a few years, it was difficult to lose, sustaining a course in doing enough to keep the next checks. Good, in fact, the great enemy. Men’s professional golf is different from any other industry in this way.
No one was able to persuade Hofland to join the mysterious medium, and even his mother with a good intention, which makes it customary to allow Victor, in his low moments, knows that many other people played badly on that day as well. He said, “She never explains me.”
This was the championship week for Hofland, who did not cause a reduction in 2025 and was expelled from the players’ championship with the first round of the first round: while he was committed to Spaire, he spent on Monday in Orlando working with the Swing Grant Waite coach, and found some swinging feeling. It suffices to calculate Hovland that he might drive his car to Tamba Bay on Tuesday, and play a late training tour. Only after those nine holes that made the final decision to play in the championship, but with very little, if any, to compete.
Then came 70 from the first round, and 67 the next day made him one shot of the forefront. “I have no control of what I am doing,” said Hovland that day. He played in the last group on Saturday, Hovland launched 69 and ended today in a triple tie for reference. “I still feel as if I saved a lot of shots, but it is somewhat straight, so it’s okay,” Hofelland said.
Viktor Hovland bent over its iron during the Valspar Championship. (Brennan Asplen / Getty Images)
On Sunday it was a test of stress. Can Hovland run his game, play in this swinging feeling and find a way to win? The answer was a testimony to his work. Hovland did not avoid his biggest problem at the present time – “Great Payment Fallen” – ranked 16th, where the water extends along the corridor, but it also hit the championship shot, which is an approach from 187 yards to less than 6 feet. With a bird there and another in No. 17, Hofelland had a pillow from a shot, which is enough for the honor of 18 and still wins.
Now work starts again with Waite, one of the swing coaches Hovland hired and shot over the past 18 months, as he partially returned it this month because Waite is a information man who wants all the information. All data. Do not hide from the problem. You tend to return to the other side. Hope.
You win this time of the year in the PGA tour, and it didn’t take long until the questions come inevitably to the master’s degree. There are 18 days until the first round, Hovland believes what he did to win this week – tame the narrow corridors with accurate iron shots and a good week – it will not have the same effect on Augusta National, which is a completely different golf test. This is its reality as it sees it, although Hovland sprayed it in talking about the positive soul.
“I still need to be honest in order to be able to attack the problems I face and we can improve, but at the same time, I must give myself some credit. Even regardless of her feeling bad or the number of poor shots that afflicted me, I am still able to photograph good degrees with her. So I have to keep it in the back of my head.”
So, does Victor Hofland return? Yes. Just do not ask him to confirm this.
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