Viktor Hovland's Upcoming Tournaments and Performance Analysis
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00:03 Yeah, I mean, I think Vic is--
00:06 I'm looking for Vic to play well in some of these upcoming
00:09 events.
00:10 You said Memorial's a great one, where he won last year,
00:12 kind of kickstarted the second half of this year,
00:14 where he ends up winning the Tour Championship.
00:16 So great to see him play well this weekend.
00:18 Now, the guy in the final pairing
00:20 that we touched on a little bit earlier, it's like,
00:24 I don't know how we leave this weekend with him.
00:26 Because obviously, a frustrating Sunday.
00:30 It doesn't make a birdie until the last hole of the day.
00:33 But he's going to head to Pioneer's next month
00:35 as the only guy to finish in the top five in each of the first
00:40 two majors of this year.
00:42 And so what do you leave this--
00:45 because I felt like he missed a lot of makeable birdie chances
00:49 today.
00:50 But his putter was so hot earlier in the week.
00:52 And it's just like, you just can't--
00:54 at Valhalla, you cannot afford to do that on a championship
00:56 Sunday.
00:57 Yeah, well, he putted really well on Thursday.
00:59 Putted pretty well Friday.
01:00 And Saturday, Sunday, the putter let him down.
01:02 Both days, he's hitting it better, which is good to see.
01:06 I think one of the things I picked up on from the coverage
01:09 is that he's definitely hitting that banana fade when
01:11 he wants to hit the fairway.
01:13 But he's definitely losing distance.
01:15 So maybe that was a bit of a factor,
01:17 just from a proximity standpoint over the weekend,
01:19 just having further clubs in.
01:21 I mean, Xander, I'm sure, was blown to pass him.
01:24 So that's something I believe with Colin
01:26 is, can we get the putter and the ball striking
01:30 back on the same page?
01:31 Because his putter was carrying him
01:33 over the last month and a half.
01:34 And the ball striking was coming around.
01:36 He's starting to feel like old Colin Moricala again.
01:39 So I didn't have any expectations for him today.
01:42 I was going to be really surprised if he won.
01:45 Not that he wasn't capable.
01:46 You just know how I feel with what
01:49 it takes to win a major championship.
01:51 You can't just come in with being OK in a spot
01:56 and really good in a spot, especially in a week in which
01:58 it's a shootout.
01:59 You've got to have everything firing,
02:00 like we saw with Bryson, we saw with Victor,
02:02 and we saw with Xander.
02:03 So very pleased to see Colin Moricala back in contention
02:08 again, because I think for a bit there,
02:10 we were kind of questioning, what's
02:12 kind of going on with Colin?
02:13 And I think it's interesting, the context
02:15 of all these discussions, where you've
02:16 talked a lot about the change from Mark Blackburn
02:18 and trying to figure out what's going to come next for him
02:20 with a swing.
02:21 And we're juxtaposing that against two guys
02:24 that now have it dialed with their instructors,
02:27 with Chris Como and Xander, and now Joe Mayo
02:29 back with Victor Hovland.
02:30 And so that's going to be a piece for Colin to figure out.
02:34 But yeah, I think he has something
02:36 to build on going to the next major.
02:38 It's just, how is he going to put it
02:40 all together for four rounds?
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