Viktor Hovland

“When I was growing up, all my friends at school wanted to be the world's best soccer player. I wanted to be that, too, then I realized when I was 11 that wasn't going to happen.”

“I don't have to be at the golf course six hours a day just grinding, it's almost therapeutic just going out there hitting balls for 45 minutes and go home.”

“All you can do is just make the best decisions possible. Sometimes you get beat, if it's bad luck or if you made a bad decision. Well, if you made a bad decision, you try to change it, and hopefully in the future it works out.”

“I find meaning in other places. But obviously with how society works, money is something you need.”

“Obviously, we're out here to compete and win tournaments, but I really just cherish being able to hit the shots exactly the way I want to. I think it's a better predictor of how you're going to play in the future.”

“When I got out of school, I was at 168, 169 ball speed. But I was very, very accurate.”

“I've gone through some counterbalance putters in the past that I played in school, so I really like that shape.”

“Kind of early 2021 I feel like my ball striking was the best.”

“In college, and when I first turned pro, I cut the ball a little too much for my liking.”

“If I'm playing really well, I try to not make it as complicated as it could be.”

“Obviously money is good, it's nice to make money, but that's not what gets me up every day in the morning.”

“As soon as you see a couple putts go in, it's just easy to get confidence from that.”

“Now when you have a huge chunk of really good players that are not getting any ranking points, it definitely devalues that ranking.”

“I do pride myself in trying to make the best out of it, but it gets to a point where you kind of lose that belief - you just see a shot, and that's not good enough.”

“I think when you try to be honest with yourself and ask yourself, OK, how can I get better, I just basically have to force myself to change a couple of these mindset things. I don't think it's something that - to some people it comes natural. It hasn't really come natural to me, at least to that extent, so that's something I just have to work on.”

“I used to always think if I was hitting a shot, it was my fault. It is to a certain extent, but if you have a club that's prone to do a certain thing... if you're trying to hit a slice or cut and you have a club that's really soft in how it flexes, or it's shut, that makes it harder to hit that cut shot.”

“Maybe there is something to having your back up against the wall and having to perform. I feel like it kind of gives you a little bit of that sense of urgency of having to perform.”

“My clubface does not go super open to super closed quickly; it stays square throughout the golf swing.”

“I really had a hard time reading greens. One week I could get really hot and just see the lines really well and the next week I just had no chance. AimPoint has just given me a system, a system that doesn't work every time, but it at least gives me a framework that's a lot tighter.”

“I'm not interested in the what unless you can also explain the why.”