Viktor Hovland impresses in second spherical of PGA Championship – Comply with reside updates on Eurosport.no

• Hovland’s second spherical within the PGA Championship continues on Friday from 19.51 in our reside middle at Eurosport.no

The journey continues all through the evening.

On Thursday afternoon, Viktor Hovland performed the opening spherical within the second main event of the 12 months. The place the primary main event, The Masters, regardless that Hovland did not make the minimize, the PGA Championship bought off to a a lot better begin.

Hovland got here in final with a 3 shot underneath par complete and one tied for eighth place.

– It is a good begin to the event, and one thing to construct on. It is going to be very attention-grabbing to see the event proceed now, says Discovery golf skilled, Marius Thorp.

The primary character himself was not so comfortable.

– It would not really feel so good, however I am heading in the right direction. I’ve no doubts about my skill to play golf. I am taking part in effectively, so I’ve to maintain working in the correct course, so I am not far-off, stated Hovland after the spherical.

See an interview with Hovland on the high of the problem.

The 26-year-old opened the spherical in the absolute best approach when he was in a position to register a birdie on the primary gap. He then adopted up with a par on the subsequent gap, earlier than leaving with two straight birdies.

– It is a lengthy course, so it’s important to hit good photographs off the tee and hit loads of fairways. Rather a lot was achieved then, stated Hovland when he summarized the tour.

After the dream opening, the primary bogey of the spherical needed to be a actuality on Hovland’s fifth gap, gap 14. The Ekeberg boy, however, fought again, and recorded one other birdie on gap 16.

On gap 17 got here the second bogey of the spherical, and Hovland completed the “again 9” at -2 general.

The birdie efficiency was much less clear when Hovland began with the “entrance 9”. The Norwegian left with par on the primary six holes.

On gap seven, he was in a position to register one other circle on the scorecard after an enormous shot on the inexperienced, so he went right down to a complete of -3.

Hovland completed the opening spherical with two straight pairs.

Xander Schauffele leads the event after the opening spherical with 9 photographs underneath par.

The American was additionally historic after the tour. He’s the primary man to tour within the PGA Championship by 62 strokes.

As well as, he tied the file for the most effective spherical in each main event of all time. He additionally did so within the opening spherical of the 2023 US Open.