FORE: Nor on Saturday did it sit completely with the driver for Viktor Hovland. Foto: SAM GREENWOOD / GETTY IMAGES NORTH AMERICA
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Viktor Hovland (23) was about to turn the round after a bad start, but a couple of mistakes in the end made the Norwegian fall sharply down on the results lists.
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Not everyone has finished the round. At the time of writing, Phil Mickelson has a five-stroke lead after playing ten holes of the round. Mickelson is ten strokes below par for the tournament.
Viktor Hovland’s hope for victory in this year’s second major tournament, the PGA Championship, seems to be out after he went the third round of 75 strokes, three strokes over par.
Unlike the first two days, conditions were much calmer on Kiawah Island on Saturday, and Hovland’s round has led him down to a currently shared 38th place, where he is 13 strokes behind leader Phil Mickelson at the time of writing.
Should the 50-year-old win the tournament, which ends on Sunday, he will be the oldest winner of a major in history.
DOWN: Hovland despairs after he missed a putt during the third round. Foto: Matt York / AP
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Viktor Hovland was all the way up in a split second place after the first round of the PGA Championship, but a round of three strokes over par, sent the Norwegian down to a split 19th place after the second round, in par after the first two rounds.
It was especially with the driver Hovland played in problems during Friday’s round, and it did not continue much better in the first part of Saturday’s round.
On the first nine holes, there was a long way between the birdie opportunities and a double bogey on hole 3 – where he puttted from six meters – made the 23-year-old two strokes over par for the round.