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Viktor Hovland

(1997) Professional Golfer

99 quotes in 304 categories

Viktor Hovland is a professional golfer.

Quick Facts About Viktor Hovland

Born: September 18, 1997
Profession: Professional Golfer

About Viktor Hovland

[Wikidata] Norwegian golfer... | [Wikipedia] Viktor Hovland is a Norwegian professional golfer who plays on the PGA Tour and European Tour. He won the 2018 U.S. Amateur and reached number one in the World Amateur Golf Ranking in 2019. Hovland became the first Norwegian to win on the PGA Tour and on the European Tour. He has won eight times on

Quotes by Viktor Hovland · Page 2

I want to do more things like this - be in contention and winning tournaments.

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I can swing when I'm wearing five layers, so when I have only a shirt, it's easier.

Five

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I kind of have high arms in the backswing.

Arms

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I was good and I had a pretty golf swing... but I was never the best or anything. I looked up to…

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When I was growing up, all my friends at school wanted to be the world's best soccer player. I wanted to be…

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At the end of the day, we're golfers, we're not ball strikers.

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I'm just trying to do the best I can and see how it goes.

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I think when you try to be honest with yourself and ask yourself, OK, how can I get better, I just basically…

Ask yourself

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It's just sometimes the game of golf - you try to do the same every day - but then things aren't the…

Day

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Sometimes when you ask a question and you get some answers, that leads you down a different path and opens up some…

Different path

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My ball striking was already good when I turned pro, so there wasn't a whole lot that I could really necessarily improve…

Ball

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You need the competition with 150 players and a cut and if you don't play well enough, you're out. There is something…

Competition

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I'm a curious guy.

Curiosity

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What do you think happens after we die? We don't know. The establishment will say, 'Your neurons will stop firing. Your body…

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I'm not a guy that just wants to blindly follow people and be told what to do. I want to understand everything.

Everything

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I'm always open to change stuff if I feel like there's room for improvement.

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Rankings are rankings. They're not objective truth. They're created to try to rank people the best they can.

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I've always had a very consistent stroke. It might not be perfect, but if you can start the ball on line and…

Always

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I have a big advantage with my ball-striking, that I'm going to hit more greens than other guys are. But sometimes the…

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I would say as soon as I play bad or I make a couple of mistakes, that almost motivates me more to…

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I guess I've always been a fan of Dustin Johnson's golf swing, because I have a lot of similar things to him.

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

In the past

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I put so much pressure on myself to play perfect golf because I felt like I had to play perfect golf to…

Believe

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Maybe there is something to having your back up against the wall and having to perform. I feel like it kind of…

Back

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I don't have to be at the golf course six hours a day just grinding, it's almost therapeutic just going out there…

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