During the last war, Victor Hovland saw his fall in the world.
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Two of the twentySomethings on top of the manager’s table going on Sunday at Valsspar championship are looking for a lot for something.
One is looking for his first PGA Tour victory. The other is trying to find his swinging.
Not that you would know about the numbers.
Rigorously judging by his outcome card, you would not guess it Victor Hovland has lost in the late desert, burning through shaky thoughts and instructors. Because there he was on Saturday, posting a regular 2nd 2nd in the Innisbrook search Copper to look for a part of the superiority of 54 holes.
“Golf golf, it’s a crazy game,” Hovland said.
Fraudulent, too. Because by strictly judging by appearances, you would also not guess that Jacob Bridgeman has never been in this position before. But there was also there on Saturday, a 25-year-old without a tour of the tour, looking ready along with Hovland in the last group, overcoming a shaky start to finish the day in a tie for the first time.
Bridgeman will come out again again tomorrow along with Nico Echavarria, who posted a 68 to join the three-sided lead in the 7th. Hovland will be immediately in front of them with Ricky Castillo.
“As the experiences go, this will be cute,” Bridgeman said. “I’ve never done it. I never really been. I don’t know if I have ever been to the final group at all, so to do it back will be fun. I look forward to the challenge.”
In a table filled which includes Justin ThoMas and Shane Lowry Only two shots back, predecessors are not the only group they have to watch. However, Hovland and Bridgeman stand as a contrasting study, partly for the breast in their experience, but also given their latest divergent paths.
The last 12 months have not been polite with Hovland, a six -time winner and 2023 FedEx champion. Known for tinkering like Thomas Edison, even when his game looks good, the 27-year-old Norwegian star has been right in his disappointment as he describes his experimentation with coaches and shakes. Since the third end in the PGA 2024 and T2 championship in FedEx St. Judge, he has fallen from no. 3 in the world in no. 19.
Bridgeman, meanwhile, has been in a quick climb. After losing the cut in three of his first four beginnings in 2025, the former Clemson’s former -star has resettled a string of strong shows, including a T2 in Cognant Classic and a T15 in Arnold Palmer Invitational, which have arched it more than 100 points in World Ranging.
On Saturday, Bridgeman dismissed par 5 and played nine front in two front before standing with one dead eye, deciding that he produced four birds on the back.
“I was just upside down and grinding the best I could,” Bridgeman said. “I wasn’t hitting well. I wasn’t on.
