MASTERS TOURNAMENT

April 9, 2022

Viktor Hovland

Quick Quotes

Q. Obviously you're no stranger to cold weather. Does it feel more like an Open than a Masters?

VIKTOR HOVLAND: A little bit. It feels like THE PLAYERS actually. It's cold, and the ball doesn't go very far, and the greens are firm and fast. It's tough. Feels like a major.

Q. How do you compensate? How do you know how far to -- say the ball's not going to go as far?

VIKTOR HOVLAND: Yeah, it's not super scientific. You kind of guess a little bit, three, four yards here and there probably. Yeah, and I just try to kind of err on the safer side.

Q. It's supposed to be nicer tomorrow. Maybe more of a scorable day tomorrow?

VIKTOR HOVLAND: Yeah, I haven't checked the forecast, but it's not going to be too scorable with these greens. They're really getting firmer and faster, and I'm sure the wind's going to be up a little bit tomorrow even though it's going to be firmer. So it will be hard.

Q. With all the rain that hit Tuesday and Wednesday, and even Thursday morning it was misting, are you surprised they're that firm?

VIKTOR HOVLAND: I mean, I kind of knew that was going to happen. This place is amazing what they can do with a SubAir. They just turn it on, and overnight it's a completely different golf course.

Yeah, it still amazes me, but it wasn't anything that caught me off guard.