27 August 2023 at 03:11 Hovland leads by six strokes before the last day of the PGA Tour Championship Before the final round of the PGA Tour Championship, Norwegian golf ace Viktor Hovland has a particularly good starting point. He leads by six strokes over his nearest competitor. Olympic winner Xander Schauffele is closest to the Norwegian with 14 shots under par in total. Hovland is 20 strokes under par overall, after a third round of four strokes under par. – Brilliantly delivered. He shows an unbelievably high level, says Discovery’s golf expert Marius Thorp. – So stable, so solid. He answers one mistake he makes today. He hits almost all of the fairways and has very few problems throughout a round where very many others have had a lot of problems. He copes with the pressure and dares to be aggressive, continues the expert. The main character was also satisfied with the effort. – I don’t think I have ever played as well as this, he says according to the AFP news agency. – I can’t remember that I have led with so many strokes, adds the Norwegian. Hovland was very close to birdie both on holes 17 and 18, but luck was not on his side in the putting. The result for the third round was five birdies, one bogey and the rest on par. Only two players, Austrian Sepp Straka and English Tommy Fleetwood, had a better third round, both five shots under par. Schauffele finished the round on Friday two strokes under par, despite three bogeys. In shared third place overall are Americans Keegan Bradley and Collin Morikawa. The latter shared the lead with Hovland after the second round, but went three strokes over par in the third round. In addition to two bogeys, he made a double bogey on hole four. Another who struggled was world number one Scottie Scheffler, who had to go up three strokes over par in the round. Only on the last hole did he sink a birdie, and in addition there were a total of four bogeys. Before last year’s final day of the tour championship, it was Scheffler who was leading, but a bad final round cost him the victory – and he finished second behind Northern Irishman Rory McIlroy. The Discovery expert highlights precisely this to emphasize that a player in good shape and with solid leadership can mess it up on the last day. – So this is almost finished, just to emphasize that. But what speaks for Viktor is that he brings so much momentum and quality that I don’t quite see how it can go wrong, says Marius Thorp. He thinks Xander Schauffele has to go a round eight strokes under par to have an opportunity to catch up with Hovland. – I don’t think that will happen, says Thorp. (NTB)
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