Where PGA Tour was confused in Liv, according to Victor Hovland

Last week, PGA Tour officially announced Brian Rolapp as CEO at the entrance. The beginning of the RollApp era means the end of the end of Jay Monahan’s era, which also means the next chapter of PGA Tour-Liva Saga-certainly that will be a determining issue of the Rolapp mandate also begins.

The tournament has been stabilized in the full three years since the first scene of Liv and the frantic wine that followed. Players have mostly stopped leaving. The sponsors are mostly standing around. TV ratings are mostly returning. The tournament is optimistic. But that does not mean that everything is perfect, and neither does that professional golf heal; As a test, this week the Tour’s Rocket Classic in Detroit will face Liv’s Dallas event. So, although the temperature has cooled down in the rivalry of the league-V.-League, constant schism has people to ask what could have been done differently.

It will be interesting to see if we get a kind of output interview, where, with the benefit of supervision, the long committee is plunged into some what -Fs. Meanwhile, we have Viktor Hovland.

Hovland has been one of the best tour players in recent years and among his most interesting speakers as well. Mainly he is asked about Golf oscillation but even sometimes about the state of the world. Enter an interview with Brendan Porath of Podcast “Shotgun Start” Before last week’s passenger championship (and before Hovland’s WD to come sorry), where he spoke freely and handed a particularly interesting couple to Monahan’s mistakes and the state of the tournament.

Hovland said he had not attended the meeting of the players in front of the passengers where Rolapp was presented; He would have been in a title shoot. He does not know a tone for their new leader, but he said he is not surprised that Monahan is out after what he called the “tribulations” of recent years – and expressed a skepticism in his long exit plan. “I don’t know how normal it is to announce that you are leaving and still working for another 18 months,” he said. The simplest answer (and for my money, for my money, the most penetrating) came when Porath asked him what he thinks the tournament could do better.

“I mean, I think everything can improve,” he said. Then he became more specific. “Especially the messages of the last two years, of course in the face of the show of the Liv tour, I think PGA Tour did not really go with the best strategy, Y’Now? I think the tournament certainly had lever in terms of only historical events, traditions. And I think they should have honored it a little more.

As a particular event of new arriva signature, travelers have increased its payments in recent seasons; Keegan Bradley just earned $ 3.6 million from a $ 20 million bag. But in Hovland’s mind the previously known event as Greater Hartford Open has a catalog of moments that means more about his meaning than checking the first place.

“It’s a great event, and I think it’s just cute to return to the places you know THAT The guy won and withdrew THAT shot. Like, this is what PGA Tour does. That is why people are allocated to see, “Hovland said.” You see stories from the best players in the world, winning again, defending a victory, a new developing player that changes their whole life by winning a tournament or a high finish that changes their career trajectory. And I think the tour really should be located in that messages, and creating the best lines, in my opinion. “

However, unlike some of his peers Hovland would prefer someone else to deal with politics and storytelling; He said he was not particularly invested in the tournament of the tournament, given his investment in his game.

“In recent years have not been the best in the course for me, so I’m just focused on this,” he said. What does he do for him?

“It’s just a little exhausting just to follow some of the things that are happening,” he said. “I can attract many similarities from PGA Tour to politics in general. And it’s like, the more I invest myself, just the more frustrated I will get.

“But the tournament does a lot of really good things and I’m excited to come to every single event and compete,” he added. “So this is what I want to focus on – but I feel like the management side has been a little messy, in my opinion.”

Pro -hovland debut came to travelers in 2019. He thinks he is a more complete player in many ways; He hits her longer, he is in better condition, better his short game, he can read the greens better, he can work the ball in both ways, he is more comfortable under pressure. However, he cannot help but feel nostalgic for the simplicity of the past.

“The ignorance I had at the time just getting up and hitting a blow and the ball just went straight and taking it as good – those days were pretty fun,” he said.

Many things were simpler then.

You can listen to the full interview of the Start Shotgun (and learn its favorite fruits) here. You can dive into the S-Golf-swing mentality of Hovland in the heat interview below.

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