Watch Viktor Hovland’s Round 3 press conference during the 2024 PGA Championship at Valhalla Golf Club.
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Contested each May, the PGA Championship is the second major championship in golf’s annual rotation, and perennially features the strongest field in the men’s game based on the Official World Golf Rankings. Known for dramatic finishes and notable champions, the Wanamaker Trophy—which has been awarded to the winner since 1916—is inscribed with names such as Brooks Koepka, Rory McIlroy, Tiger Woods, Phil Mickelson, Jack Nicklaus, and Gary Player.
The 2024 PGA Championship is set to take place between 13-19 May at Valhalla Golf Club. The reigning champion is Brooks Koepka.
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Victor havin is with us at the 106 PJ Championship we’ll jump right into questions starting right here with Jeff Victor second year in a row you’ll you’ll go on sign you with a great chance to win what do you think you could pull out of last year you can apply tomorrow yeah I think just kind of staying patient um last year felt like I did a really good job of you know obviously chasing down Brooks but I didn’t let that change my strategy throughout the round you know some of the pins that I probably last year I would have gone for I kind of played smarter even though early on Brooks had a a little bit of a a lead last year and um just kind of kept tracking along not making too many mistakes and when I made a couple putts I just kind of inched myself closer and closer and closer I think this year is a little different scenario because there’s there’s so many guys on the leaderboard there so you kind of have to get something going early or you have to make some birdies out there um to to shoot a low one and separate yourself if the conditions certain going to be closer to uh today um for tomorrow so um yeah it’ll probably be a little different but you know you still got to pick the r gay plan and and execute we’ll go next to Mike seven eight and then five will you be a little bit more aggressive tomorrow with with how soft the greens are knowing that you know it’s probably going to take something low to to get the W uh I don’t know about more aggressive but there are certain pins that are go pins and certain ones that are not um you know this this golf course has a combination of some easy holes that you can be very aggressive on and then the harder holes when they tuck the pins you just got to try to get your par and and get out of there um but obviously the the winner of this tournament is going to make a couple of birdies on those holes as well but that’s probably not going to come from stuffing a five iron in there it’s going to come from Rolling in a 25 footer or uh something like that so um we’re still going to be patient and play smart and hopefully we get a few putts going in early and and kind of ride that momentum this might be a dumb question because you’re obviously one of the best golfers in the world but are you surprised at all with how well this week has gone to this point um I’m surprised in the sense that uh just how far away I felt last week um but I’m not surprised in the way that I’m here because like I I never doubted my abilities it was just kind of my Machinery was not working very well but as soon as I get the machine kind of right kind of somewhere on track I can play like there’s not there’s nothing wrong with me mentally or uh like never doubted I couldn’t play golf anymore it’s just like the technique was not good enough to compete uh but now we’re moving in the right direction so um you know I I I already saw it was better a few days ago right before I was playing the tournament I thought you know what we can we can maybe do some damage this week but um you know this is exceeded all expectations that’s that’s for sure is that a particularly satisfying feeling knowing that I mean it can stand up out here that quickly yeah I mean that’s that’s pretty cool um because I I uh when I went to to see Joe earlier in the week we had dinner and I said you don’t you don’t look very concerned and uh he had kind of pinpointed a feel that um as soon as I kind of kept working on that it just got better immediately and I thought this was potentially going to be a little bit of a project that maybe take six eight weeks before I would see kind of immediate Improvement so um yeah that was kind of best case scenario right there hey Victor hey Victor how you doing congrat on a on a very impressive performance um how important is it to be right in the mix right in the thick of things going into the final round of a major and I’m wondering what would the potential of a first career Major mean to you your family and friends back home as well yeah I mean it’s just exciting um obviously these are this is one of the big four that we try to win um you know it’s uh it’s cool history cool trophy everything about it is is super special it’s a great field and um you just want to be a part of having a name on on that trophy but um you know my my life’s going to be pretty good if I if I don’t win tomorrow and I’m going to have a few more chances after this as well um all I’m going to do is just show up do the best I can and and we’ll see how we goes up to Jim on 12 Victor um earlier in the week Justin Thomas talked about how this tournament and this course in particular produce a bunch leaderboards I wonder from your standpoint how exciting is that for a player and if at all you change how you approach the final round knowing I think there are what eight players within two strokes of the lead right now yeah um I think just the greens being soft and having SOA around the greens it’s you can um like it’s hard to separate yourself you’re going to have to make a bunch of birdies and and roll a bunch of putts in because if you miss in certain spots guys seem to be able to spin it out of the bunker and spin it out of the Fairway so you can kind of get uh get away with some some bad shots um but if you catch fire you can you can shoot a low score which a couple of guys have done but it’s hard to do that every single day so that’s why I think you see the the bunch scores um yeah when there’s that many guys close to the leaderboard you have to you just be in the frame of mind that okay I’m going to have to roll some putts in and and be not aggressive in terms of course management I mean you have to kind of air on the aggressive side but more aggressive the mindset and committing to the shots of you know not being scared not trying to bail out and just kind of committing to uh the plan and and um yeah just not back out all right we’ll wrap up with onean okay so Norwegian yeah so can you describe
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Come on vik ❤
We can do some damage this week!