10 April 2023 at 01:24 Rival hard against Hovland group: – Brutally slow Viktor Hovland was in the victory match before the last round in the year’s first major tournament, The Masters. However, the Norwegian never found his flow there and ended up with a round of two shots over par. This caused him to drop from third to joint seventh place in the tournament. Brooks Koepka led by two strokes over Jon Rahm before the final round, but it was Spanish Rahm who was strongest in the end and who eventually won four strokes ahead of Koepka and Phil Mickelson. The TV images showed several times that Koepka and Rahm had to wait for Hovland and playing partner Patrick Cantlay, where Cantlay in particular got a hard time on social media. – Goes slowly from putt to putt as if on purpose. So disrespectful, Tron Carter, known from the popular podcast No Laying Up, wrote on Twitter. At the post-round press conference, Koepka was asked about the pace of the final round, which took nearly five hours. – The group in front of us went brutally slowly. Jon went to the bathroom seven times during the round and we still had to wait, Koepka said. Hovland himself was asked by Discovery if he was influenced by the pace of Cantlay. – No, I have played with much slower people than that. We waited for the flight in front too. That’s just the way it is when you play a tough course in a major tournament, he replied. Despite a somewhat disappointing closing day, a shared seventh place is clearly Hovland’s best result in the tournament and he calls it all an “incredibly cool experience”. – I simply did not play well enough. I struggled a bit with the ball striking and was in the middle of clubs the whole time, summed up the 25-year-old.
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