Alex Noren reflects after a much improved round at the Hero World Challenge in the Bahamas (Tiger Woods’ event).
Noren explains why it was “a lot better than yesterday,” highlighting sharper driving, better approach play, and finally making putts. He also shares a key mindset lesson: don’t try to reinvent your swing when you’re frustrated — get back to the fundamentals and keep improving day by day.
In this interview, Noren talks about:
What changed from Round 1 to Round 2
Returning to work with his putting coach
Building a stronger team with coaches and caddie for accountability
How staying healthy impacts performance
Why he believes his best golf may still be ahead
His honest take on “tinkering” and grading his recent form (B / B+)
Player: Alex Noren
Event: Hero World Challenge | Bahamas | Tiger Woods host event
Tour: PGA TOUR (limited-field event)
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Alex, how you kind of characterize the round today? Yeah, it was solid today. A lot better than yesterday. Hit it. Hit it way better uh off the tea and and into the greens. Uh so I got a lot of looks and held a lot of pot, too. Did you work on anything on the range last night that that kind of helped? Yeah, I mean I just worked on the same stuff that I should work on and not try something new when you get angry. So, um, so back to that and then, um, it felt felt a lot easier today. Just going to ask this run you’ve been on, winning a couple times over in Europe, continuing to play well when you’ve come over here. Any contributing factor you point to that’s really helped propel you over the last couple months? Yeah, like I said, I’ve been working on the same stuff, but just more of the same. and uh uh started working with my putting coach again after after a little break. Um, so the coaches and me and my caddy, you know, kind of good team going and and they hold me accountable to do to do the to do the stuff instead of kind of going out on a limb and try something new if something doesn’t work, which you know in golf it’s easily done and uh we all try to improve, but uh just trying to improve little bit every day, not not like uh you know reinventing the wheel. How much does just being healthy for extended periods of time help that? Yeah, it’s obviously um you know you you see the guys that are un you know maybe have an injury and and it’s just so so hard and you know when yourself have one it’s it’s hard mentally and physically you know and and it’s hard to keep going you know. Do you feel like some of your best golf can still be ahead of you at this point in your career? I hope so. I mean, I I feel uh I’m gonna take care of my body a little bit better than I have been, maybe. And and uh have a little bit more of a plan going ahead like I’ve had the last half a year. I’ve had a better plan than probably ever. And and um um yeah, I I hope the best is ahead of me. You have any Do you consider yourself a tinker with the swing? Like like do you tinker with your swing a lot? Yeah. You know, you tinker with everything. If it, like I said, if my swing was like Rory or Sheffler or Tiger, I wouldn’t have to tinker that much. But, you know, I’ve never been up to their standard. So, so then you you you want to get there somehow and you tinker. Yeah.
