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Viktor Hovland Talks Perfectionism After Valspar Win
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3/25/2025
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On the topic of what is going on in his head
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I got about a minute and 12 second clip here for you from yesterday's winners presser
00:06
Just talking about the question is, you know
00:08
Do you see yourself Shay Knight said in the postgame presser as well?
00:12
Like you're talking about him being a perfectionist the question being do you see yourself as a perfectionist?
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Do you feel like you're a perfectionist? I?
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Guess you can use that word to describe it
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I just view it as if you put your heart and soul into doing something
00:29
you might as well do it, right and
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I've
00:33
Swung the club extremely well, and I think my ball striking has been really really good over a long period of time
00:40
and then when it's not doing that I
00:43
You know that I'm gonna work on that. I'm gonna figure it out and I I think it's like I
00:51
Find it kind of weird that we're professional athletes and the people that are wanting to improve or somewhat looked at as oh
00:58
He's a perfectionist. He's kind of he's out on the perimeters searching too much. It's like that's what we do
01:04
We're here to get better and we're here to win tournaments. So if you're not gonna try to get better
01:08
Well, what are you doing? You know, so it's like
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Especially when I know there's issues there. It's not like I'm inventing stuff
01:16
I have data that can show that what I used to do was objectively better than what I'm doing now
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So why shouldn't I try to go back to what I used to do?
01:28
I
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Hear that and the thing it reminds me of right off the bat is when Jordan Spieth came on the show a while back and talking
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About this sort of spectrum of where you can live if you want to play successful golf and you either have to not think about
01:42
The swing at all be very, you know, just I swing it
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I hit it and just I kind of take it for what it's worth or you have to be so immersed in understanding your swing
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That you know, you know exactly what's going on when you're off how to fix it things like that
01:55
What what are your reflections on what you just heard there from Victor Hovland
01:59
Well, I think technology has helped
02:02
For going for good and bad and I think for a case like Victor Hovland
02:06
and even a Jordan Spieth who you hear players like even Scottie say I just want to get back to my DNA and
02:13
I think when guys get their swings measured in 3d
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That's like their way of saying I don't want to go chase swing theories
02:21
I want to go chase my golf swing when it's at its best. So when you're able to like measure, you know
02:27
Okay, this is your pelvis is moving X amount this way and it used to be like this. It's like, all right
02:33
well, what do I need to feel to make it be more like this and
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Based on what I've heard from what Grant Waite and him are working on
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This goes back to when I talked to Grant last year at Bay Hill
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but when they briefly worked together before he went back and worked with Joe Mayo is
02:47
That he's trying to get him to not
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Rotate quite as much with his torso on the way back in that first third of the golf swing
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The more that he can keep the club lower and slower on the way back
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it's gonna slows torso rotation down to where as if you get all of your like three-quarters of your torso rotation before the club is
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halfway back
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the only thing that your arms can do is lift up and raise because you got nowhere else to go unless you just
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You know keep going around the bend like some if you have tons of
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mobility in your torso, but
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He wants him to keep it a little slower
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Maybe keep the chest pointing at the ball a little longer and then from there like he's he's always been a player that goes into
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Up, but if you can maybe eliminate that a little bit more to where you know, he can kind of get the feeling of
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You know Jordan's kind of the same way. It's like both both
03:40
Bowed wrists a bright right wrist extension and then basically just turn a burn and there's not a player in the world
03:47
like Victor Haven who can go hit a golf ball with all like the most freedom of
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Hitting it straight and swinging hard at it
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