Viktor Hovland isn’t holding back. 🎤 In a brutally honest interview at the U.S. Open, the Norwegian star revealed what’s really been grinding his gears—and it’s not just the brutal course setup. From slow play to frustrating breaks, Hovland gets real about what’s throwing him off his game.
In this video, we unpack Hovland’s fiery comments, what they mean for his performance heading into the weekend, and why this raw moment is earning respect across the golf world.
🔥 Is this the edge Hovland needs to turn frustration into fuel?
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victor Havland even par 70 victor obviously in a great spot here heading into Sunday what do you take away from this round pretty uh pleased with how I battled out there didn’t get off to a great start and just kept plugging along hit some great iron shots and made some nice putts around the turn there really nice par putt on on 15 and uh awesome birdie on 17 but uh yeah a little little bitter about my driver it’s just uh can’t can’t seem to figure it out it’s like a lingering problem all all this year so it’s uh it’s kind of pissed me off we’re gonna go on the left james you talked at the PGA uh two years ago about how your strategy for the majors was to kind of wear out the fairways in the middle of the green obviously it’s been a little bit different than that this week i guess I’m wondering like how do you feel like you’ve evolved as a golfer to be able to handle a test like this when your game isn’t quite as steady as it might have been a couple years ago just feel like I’ve matured a lot more just seeing a lot more stuff happening i know kind of what it takes to to win a major championship so I know the the shots to try to hit and what what shots not to try to hit so um feel like I’m way better equipped just um just need to just need to get that driver sword and I’ I’ve got the game to do it so it’s uh it’s like it’s super proud that I’m that close but it’s kind of frustrating that the driver is still just kind of holding me back a little bit what was your favorite uh of some of the hero shots you had today i mean the the pitch shot on uh 17 was was pretty sweet that was um you know I was quickly staring at bogey there if that that first or second shot doesn’t come out perfectly um but seven iron hit on number nine uh that hit the pin and made a birdie there that was really nice after hitting a lot of really good shots there um iron shot um the the nine iron I hit into five that spun back was a really nice shot iron shot into six was really good iron shot into seven was good eight was really nice nine was really nice and 10 was really nice so that that stretch was was pretty fun on the front right jeff Victor can you take us through number one kind of your mindset after that drive and then dropping it on the path and being able to minimize damage yeah I mean I felt really good i had a really nice range session this morning and um hit my irons really well threewoods was really good even the drivers were pretty nice and we had a left to right wind on the range so kind of prepared me for number one cuz it was straight off the left and just aimed it left and tried to hit a little squeeze cut out there with the wind uh try to get it in the fairway and just got super stuck on it hit it off the heel as well and it was an open club face and it just Yeah sayanara we’re gonna go on the left to Dylan this may be a dumb question because you have to do it literally every week but how as someone that thinks so much about you know getting your golf swing as perfect as possible do you shift into scoring mode and you know get the ball in the hole as quickly as possible you have to compartmentalize um you know you like to work on a couple things but I know that my iron game is good enough like it’s really really good statistically even this year for how poorly I’ I feel like I’ve been swinging it the iron game has been actually really really solid this year so I know that even if it doesn’t feel great I can still get over the ball and and get the ball out there somewhere i’d like to think my my golf IQ is very high so even if it doesn’t feel good and I’m not comfortable I can still play the game i I’ve never that’s I I feel like the the the way that I became good at golf was having something suboptimal that I had to play with when I was a kid I had I play with like a big slice off the tea and I couldn’t hit anything but a big slice but I learned to score with that so I think that that kind of uh sticks with you uh for the rest of your career um and then last few years obviously my my swing’s been good i’ve been hitting a lot better shots it’s easier to score and now when I’m not swinging it as good I still have uh the capability to get the ball in the hole center right Patrick hi there congratulations i’m sensing all your usual hunger and passion thanks for sharing that with us i wonder how do you assess your position where you’re at right now and how badly do you want to win one of these things called a major sure we would all like to win that’s why we practice so hard but uh there’s also like a deep passion in me that I want to hit the shots like I want to stand up on the tea and and hit the shots that I’m envisioning and when the ball’s not doing that it it bothers me um but I I’m well aware that I’ve I’ve got a chance tomorrow and I’ve uh if I shoot a low round of golf tomorrow then you know um anything can happen but uh there’s a lot of good players around me adam Scott played a brilliant round today just didn’t really miss a shot and and uh um you know that forces me to to play some really good golf tomorrow
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Not the best course to be having driver issues.
They all say the something, hit fairways, yet they all stick with the driver for the extra 100 yds. Length means nothing if you have to take a drop or just get back to the fairway.