Skip to player
Skip to main content
Skip to footer
Search
Connect
Watch fullscreen
Like
Comments
Bookmark
Share
Add to Playlist
Report
Smylie Kaufman Helps Make Sense of Viktor Hovland's Double-Pump
SportsGrid
Follow
1/8/2025
Category
🥇
Sports
Transcript
Display full video transcript
00:00
Victor Hovland. Do you see that double pump driver move?
00:03
It's sick.
00:05
It's so sick.
00:06
I it's just the the ability to kind of stop it and reload it
00:10
and hit it.
00:11
So what I read and maybe again, this is another thing you can
00:14
expound on a little bit for people who want a deeper level
00:17
of understanding was just that for guys a natural cutter of
00:20
the golf ball.
00:20
He said he likes to use it when he wants to work the ball
00:23
right to left.
00:24
Can you explain that a little more detail?
00:27
Well, just thinking about his risk mechanics.
00:29
He's also a huge flexion guy.
00:31
Like he gets that left hand here, right?
00:33
It like he gets it.
00:34
Actually, the club is very vertical and then in transition.
00:38
He just creates so much that clubhead just goes straight
00:42
inside which is sick for me.
00:45
My I don't have the right most impossible to do.
00:47
I don't have the right risk mechanics to do that because I
00:49
have more copy with my left wrist, which why I'm a good
00:52
wedge player, but also struggle with driving the ball.
00:55
But yeah, it's cool.
00:57
Imagine it.
00:57
He probably has to feel that to just not rotate too soon out
01:02
of the top.
01:03
So it almost like makes you pause to stop and then it's
01:06
like, all right, there goes the club and it kind of maybe
01:09
just makes you slow down a little bit.
01:12
Also from the Victor Hovland files big win for CSI TSS as we
01:17
were correct.
01:18
We recreated the crime scene properly.
01:22
It was like we I think everybody knew everything everybody
01:24
knew it was pretty obvious.
01:26
But just nice to be right on that one.
01:27
We're pending confirmation from Scotty Scheffler on the
01:30
recreation of that crime scene, but good to be right on at
01:33
least one of those.
01:34
Yeah, I would say to like with Victor Holland and I know
01:37
you're probably about to get into this with Joe Mayo in the
01:40
split with him and his coach.
01:41
That's something that took us all a little bit by surprise
01:45
because we kind of felt like the second half of the year was
01:48
like, okay, Victor understands what he's doing again with
01:50
this golf swing.
01:52
He's back with his coach.
01:53
Chipping wasn't great during that time.
01:55
So we expected just a bounce back here and I think we talked
01:58
about it before the week and I think that pump drill that
02:02
we're talking about just a moment ago.
02:05
I really feel like he hasn't done that in quite some time.
02:08
So there must be something from an ownership standpoint that
02:12
he's like, you know what?
02:13
I know what I did when I was playing.
02:15
Well, I know he probably goes back to even as US amateur days
02:20
when he was playing at Pebble Beach and we won one out there
02:22
and what his golf swing looked like then what his feels were
02:25
players don't forget what their feels are when they're playing
02:29
really well.
02:30
And so most likely and similar to a guy like Justin Thomas
02:33
who's, you know, not you really hardly using any coaches.
02:36
Now.
02:36
He's just trying to take ownership of what he does.
02:38
Yes, he can bounce ideas off of people.
02:41
And I honestly I think that's best for Victor.
02:43
Like he's he's seen enough coaches to this point.
02:46
Go play the golf that you know to play and just remember those
02:49
feels and then just try to simplify the game.
02:52
Well, and that's exactly where I was hoping to head next and
02:55
I want to kind of further that question a little bit from a
02:58
bigger picture perspective because he said in an interview
03:01
that the desire to split from from Joe Mayo was was mainly to
03:04
own his own swing, right?
03:06
And so just a question from a fan perspective doesn't
03:09
understand the ins and outs of, you know, playing at a tour
03:12
level and what it's like to have a coach at that level.
03:17
Can you explain a little bit of just the spectrum that tour
03:21
pros live on from, you know, the difference between a guy who
03:24
needs a coach to be there with him all the time, you know,
03:28
deep in the weeds in the minutiae and a guy that wants
03:30
to be more like, let's say Victor Hovland or Justin Thomas
03:33
and kind of own it on his own.
03:34
Like, well, yeah, explain the psyche of those two different
03:37
types of players.
03:38
You've heard of I thought wills out to us was a good example
03:41
of this this week is
03:43
he has got off to a really good start at 60
03:46
63 or 8 under his first round.
03:48
However, manner that is 73 throws me off 65
03:52
65 70 65 73 got off to a good start.
03:55
And in the interview with Todd Lewis thought was interesting
03:57
is that he was basically saying that last year, you know, he
04:01
was
04:02
working too much on his golf swing trying to find and and
04:06
perfect something that
04:08
is normally a strength of his and he was
04:10
hitting too many balls wearing himself out.
04:13
And I think his goal heading into the year was just to be
04:16
ready when he got here to be able to just go play golf.
04:19
That's when he plays his best.
04:20
So I think it's an understanding for most players
04:23
of what do I need from myself my coaches to play the best that
04:28
I can do.
04:29
I need more information.
04:30
Do I need less?
04:31
And I think Willie Z is a great example.
04:33
I was that way too.
04:35
And when I really got off is when I started over practicing
04:37
trying to perfect something or find something and sometimes
04:41
you got to do it.
04:42
Sometimes.
04:43
Hey, listen,
04:44
the the prescription from your from your doctor or coaches.
04:48
Hey, you got to go find it in the dirt.
04:50
And sometimes you can get worse doing it.
04:52
But a lot of times good players can go back and find one or two
04:56
fields that they can really just groove in and and put the
04:59
refs in and the amount of time and effort.
05:01
They need to over it.
Recommended
3:59
|
Up next
Smylie Kaufman Peeks at Shocking Ryder Cup Standings
SportsGrid
10/1/2024
3:36
Smylie Kaufman Talks Scenic Views of Fall Golf at Presidents Cup
SportsGrid
9/26/2024
2:53
Smylie Kaufman Talks 2 Standout U.S. Presidents Cup Selections
SportsGrid
9/26/2024
2:56
Smylie Kaufman Recaps the Sanderson Farms Championship
SportsGrid
10/8/2024
4:51
Recapping the TGL with Smylie Kaufman and Charlie Hulme
SportsGrid
1/30/2025
3:25
Smylie Kaufman Recaps Rory McIlroy's Win at Pebble Beach
SportsGrid
2/5/2025
3:36
Smylie Kaufman Talks Challenges of Caddying for Collin Morikawa
SportsGrid
2 days ago
3:58
Smylie Kaufman Recaps Joe Highsmith's Win at Cognizant Classic
SportsGrid
3/5/2025
3:02
Smylie Kaufman Talks Craziest Golf Superstitions He Has Seen
SportsGrid
9/10/2024
6:49
Smylie Kaufman Gives Insight on the Finish at the Irish Open
SportsGrid
9/18/2024
3:44
Smylie Kaufman Touches on Tom Kim's PGA Tour Slow Play Issues
SportsGrid
2/5/2025
3:59
Viktor Hovland Talks Perfectionism After Valspar Win
SportsGrid
3/25/2025
3:31
Claire Rogers Joins Smylie Kaufman to Break Down the TGL
SportsGrid
1/30/2025
5:17
Smylie Kaufman Talks PGA Tour's Innovative Broadcast Experiments
SportsGrid
10/15/2024
1:49
Smylie Kaufman Talks Evolving Challenges in a PGA Golfer's Career
SportsGrid
4/27/2025
6:35
Analyzing Presidents Cup: Insights and Recap from Smylie Kaufman
SportsGrid
10/1/2024
2:12
Willy Wilcox Joins Smylie Kaufman on Presidents Cup Experience
SportsGrid
10/3/2024
2:44
Impactful Coaching Stories: Lessons Learned from Top Golfers
SportsGrid
4/4/2025
2:48
Smylie Kaufman Talks Challenge of Piquing Interests in Sports
SportsGrid
1/30/2025
2:25
Corey Conners Talks With Smylie Kaufman on Canadian Junior Golf
SportsGrid
10/8/2024
3:16
Smylie Kaufman Explores the Impact of Ad Loads in Golf Broadcasts
SportsGrid
1/30/2025
4:13
Smylie Kaufman Talks Cantlay's Success in Team Golf Events
SportsGrid
10/1/2024
1:48
Jason Day Joins Smylie Kaufman to Talk Swing Coach Colin Swatton
SportsGrid
10/10/2024
3:58
Smylie Kaufman Recaps Thomas Detry's Win at the WM Phoenix Open
SportsGrid
2/12/2025
2:58
Smylie Kaufman Ranks Top PGA Tour Venues, Excluding Major Sites
SportsGrid
2/5/2025