Viktor Hovland Reunites with Coach Joe Mayo for PGA Championship – Comply with the Motion on Eurosport.no!

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In line with Discovery, Viktor Hovland has gone again to final 12 months’s profitable coach Joe Mayo.

The choice ought to have come after final week’s Wells Fargo Championship, the place Hovland completed twenty fourth after a robust end.

Hovland had beforehand had Dana Dahlquist as swing coach, after he opted to half methods with Grant Waite, who took over from Mayo at the beginning of 2024.

See the interview with Mayo finally 12 months’s TOUR Championship on the high of the story!

Now Dahlquist is out, and Mayo is again. After a really disappointing 2024 season thus far, plainly each the protagonist and Norwegian golf followers are hoping that the reunion will assist him to repeat the shape he had below Mayo in 2023 to search out.

– I’ve recognized Joe for nearly six years, and we’ve been speaking for fairly some time earlier than this occurred. We’ve an excellent relationship, the Norwegian stated on the time.

It was the start of a collaboration that meant Hovland took the shut recreation to new ranges. Already that week there have been indicators of what was to come back.

Three months later, the primary actual proof of Hovland’s near-game revolution got here, when with second place within the PGA Championship’s fundamental event, he was among the many high ten across the inexperienced through the week.

The next month he topped the monument, and in August he gained each the BMW Championship and the TOUR Championship, which meant he additionally gained the general FedEx Cup.

The thrilling 12 months ended with victory within the Ryder Cup, the place Hovland was statistically the most effective participant within the event.

– I admit that I’ve a really sturdy character. That is one among my many errors in life. I perceive that being with me for a 12 months full-time, as we had been, could also be very tough. I do know certainly that I battle to cope with it over an extended time period. When he stated he wished to do it alone, I used to be relieved, stated Mayo.

The coach, who goes by the nickname “TrackmanMaestro”, says that individuals who know him personally say that “Joe is intense, robust and tough to deal with”, and that he might this had one thing to do with why they went on.

– If I am trustworthy, I would say my character was in all probability a part of the explanation why Viktor wished to do it alone. I admit that. I admit that my sturdy character is a “turnoff” for some folks in some unspecified time in the future. I am going to take the blame, when you like. I am man sufficient to confess, man sufficient to say that being with me for a 12 months was so much to deal with.

Mayo is completely certain that Hovland will discover out the issues he has been combating up to now months.

– He wins once more. I place confidence in him and I place confidence in his golf swing. I’ve full confidence in him.