Viktor Hovland perfectly describes the challenges of Augusta’s nationals

Viktor Hovland is the searcher. The Norwegian star is very curious about everything, not just golf. His curious soul kept him tinkering with his swing and equipment. Hofland wants to know. Not only what, but how and why. And why.

Hovland and his curiosity rose to third in the official world golf rankings. He has slipped since then. But can this desire for understanding allow Hofland to solve his mysteries in the game proposed by Augusta National this week?

Since 1934, the Masters hosting courses have been challenged, hit and beaten up the world’s top golfers. Face changes. Different skill sets. Technology improvements.

But Augusta National and Masters continue to be the gold standard, as the course requires your game to have all the answers. Here, there are no shortcuts.

For Hofland, the Augusta Nationals’ short-term game requirements raised questions for him very early. He only has the top 10 in four careers and missed the advancement after shooting 81 shots in the depths of the golf wilderness last year.

Hofland said Augusta has a way to reveal your weaknesses. This is a golfer who can only conquer only if he has complete control over his game and mind.

“It seems like the whole place is just built in a way that can’t get you out of poor skills,” Hovland said Tuesday at his pre-tourist press conference. “It doesn’t matter. It’s, you have to hit the ball for a certain distance. You have to be able to hit the ball at a certain height. You have to be able to bend the ball. It’s around the green, because it’s longer grass, it always cuts, it’s going to get stuck, and if you have a lack of skills, you’ll really endure those efforts, especially in those efforts, they’ll really caress them. On the ball, you’ll have a hard time, especially bunkers, with a lot of sand on the beach.

“This forces you to be at your best in every part of the game to be able to win this title, and I think it’s just a sign of a great game that it really tests the best players.”

Hovland is still young at the age of 27 and will continue to build a knowledge base in Augusta. He was young and curious, full of spiritual and spiritual freedom, forced to stroll and search. Maybe we’ll end up seeing another version of Hovland – another reserved, less willing to go to an unknown branch. But not yet.

Instead, Hofland opened up himself. The movie “8 Miles” (8 Miles) related to Eminem. My colleague Nick Piastowski wrote that Hovland’s obsession with UFOs and that it has to do with his pursuit of green jackets.

“I think it’s fun when you have an open mind and question anything,” Hofland said. “I think even in a golf swing you get very dogmatic and look at things because oh, that must be a fact, and sometimes you have the deepest beliefs that can confuse yourself. When you question things and look at things from a different perspective, you might dig into a deeper truth.”

A deep interest in the mystery of life, the pursuit of unknown is a window to the golfer, which is with the Augustan nation’s demands for its championship – creativity, imagination, fearlessness.

“When you try to put yourself in a position where you can learn and try yourself, when you are a scientist, you see the world and try things for yourself, and then write down or see the results of what you are trying, and then try different things to see if it works,” Hovland said. “I think it’s just an exciting way of life, not in the mundane routine you do the same thing every day and hope to get better results. It’s not really my connection. I just like trying new things and seeing what happens.”

Augusta National asked profound questions to golfers as they walked the fairway and tried to read the vegetables. It requires precision and is willing to go beyond what you know about the game and yourself. This is where the answer lies. Entering Hovland, this type of uneasy and curious golf soul excitedly chases Augusta’s mystery, opening itself to a brand new golf understanding plane in the process.