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Pebble beach, California – Examining Victor Hovland about his game status has become an increasingly fascinating exercise.
“In my opinion, he sucked me at the moment,” he said this week on a pebble beach. “But that’s all relatively.”
Very intelligent, deep just aware and refreshing honest, Hovland offered a certain variation of that answer in most last year, but may not be so unclear. It is obvious that he did not play as he did in the summer 2023. year, when he argued on the Mažoraci and scored FedExcup and became Bona Fide Star. It is clear that it was frustrated for how long he took over his momentum to return to the form.
But, as he said, and it’s all relative. Last year, she was the worst career … and yet he still almost won the PGA championship, reached the tour of the tour and ranked among the tour of the leader in a striking ball.
“I know there is a lot of good golf in me who will be there in the future and that I played in the past,” he said. “Things will soon appear.”
At least he turned to the AT & T pebble beach on Thursday, where Hovland signed for 7-Mand 65, which left him only with a personnel.
Of course, Hovland knew better – and he saw too recently – but be overjoyed with a hot start.
Technically, mechanically, he said, he still has work.
“It looks great on paper,” Hovland said about the day in which he missed only two orders and two green. “It’s just how my mind works of course trying to extrapolate what I did today and to play during the season. But I’m not looking for. But that doesn’t mean that they can’t have great individual days or shiny individual Tournaments.
“So I was still pumped to shoot 65, but I know I won’t just let it overlook the problems or questions I have in my game. They’re still there, but I managed to overcome it today.”
That is why last year was as a mental challenge.
Hovland has not just lowered expectations – practically eliminated them. Nemisno takes care of playing golf at a high level, and if he can’t, he said, “It hurts.”
“Constantly trying to get out here and break up to play well and then you’re disappointed because you can’t play at that level,” he said, “he needs to charge for a placement.”
So, lately, Hovland said he was trying to have fun. Trying not to worry so much about the result. It could tell him a sports psychologist: Just relax! Don’t be so hard on yourself! But he also realizes he didn’t really wire. Therefore, he did not decide on a mental coach even as his fall deepens.
“I am very technically guided,” he said, “And I know that my own basis are in a good place and see the ball in which you look at, it is better to think better. But when the ball goes to the whole place and pay You guy sit there and say, “Just be positive,” you’re grated my speed like that. I don’t want to hear that.
“There are definitely mental techniques, breathing techniques, and you don’t have to be delusion, but you can definitely change your story you feel better. So there are valuable mental training things that you can do, but at the end of the day, if you can’t hit the shots you want to guess it doesn’t matter. “
Hovland thus fell on his game that he was thinking about skipping the tournament – even great – to remove the range at home. It almost happened last year in PGA, where he found a quick fix and almost won the Valhalli. And he admitted that it almost happened this week on a pebble beach, one of the tour events with great money.
Hovland ‘Super Happy’ with pebble beach 1. Round 1
Viktor Hovland joins the golf channel to discuss the first round of the AT & T pebble beach Pro AM, where he “sucked a little less today” while he finished in another place on the leader.
“Pretty close, to be honest with you,” Hovland said about possibly not playing. “It’s just, I know that this golf course brightened me in the plot. At another golf course or different conditions, my blow would be a little more exposed to play well. But I know it’s this week, if we have a good Time, if I can pull it on the patchy and skate him to close and make a few times, I can still compete. I’d rather work on things outside the tournament and I feel ready, then be super excited to have competed. “
His swing may not have felt “all so great” on Thursday, but Hovland sometimes looked like his old me. He drove him on the line, hit his last nine orders. On the other, he ran in the field near the hole, on average 21 meters on the approaches in pebbly notoriously with small greenery. Promising start.
“It’s hard to choose one thing,” he said. “Today was a lot well.”
And so Hovland asked what to do now, after opening 65. It was cold. Pro-am Round was slow. Only an hour or two daylight left.
“I’ll probably guess a few,” he said, before he broke into the ticklish. “Maybe I’ll inspire and find a new idea or something.”
