After touring on a regular basis, Victor Hovland (23) found the flux in the last three holes and made sure it was still in contact with the lead.
With three birds in the last three holes, it was another good day for Victor Hovland at the Northern Trust.
The Norwegian went with that round with four under-par and seven under-par two days later.
Not everyone finished the second round, but Hovland did well inside the top, currently in joint twelfth place.
The Norwegian has five hits until Jon Ram is in the lead.
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Victor Hovland opened the tournament with a three-stroke tie on Thursday. She finished 10th after the first day.
Hovland summed up his run as “totally solid,” but had to see that he was five strokes behind leading duo John Ram and Justin Thomas after the first round.
Ram was about to finish the role when Hovland came out just before 7 NST. The world champion provided another consistent round in a somewhat simpler relationship, this time four strokes below par, thus setting the standard for the rest of the field.
For Hovland, it started off well, too. A birdie on hole 1 gave him the start he wanted, but on hole 6, the simplest hole on the field, he got into trouble. From about 200 meters he sent the second shot over hole 5 in the water and had to notice the first ghost of the round.
The birds on holes 8 and 10 meant that Hovland again approached the top tier, but the new birds waited and instead there was a ghost on hole 14 after a weak shot on the short hole 3. With the birds on each of the last three holes, it was no Still a good day for Hovland, who consequently made a four-stroke run under par.
The playoffs on the PGA Tour, the FedEx Cup, consist of three tournaments. Throughout the regular season, players collect FedEx Cup points and the top 125 teams qualify for the first of three tournaments – The Northern Trust. Hovland was No. 11 in the FedEx Cup before this week’s tournament.
In the play-off tournaments, the number of points is quadrupled and the seventy with the most points qualifies to the next tournament, the BMW Championship. From there, the top 30 ranked players will advance to the Tour Championship. Hovland was the first Norwegian player to qualify for the tournament last year.
There, the person who tops the FedEx Cup starts the tournament with ten strokes below par, while the number two is two strokes behind, the number three is three strokes behind, the number four is four strokes behind, the number five is five strokes behind, and the numbers six through ten are six strokes behind, The numbers 11 to 15 are seven strokes behind, numbers 16 to 20 are eight strokes behind, numbers 21 to 25 are nine strokes behind, and numbers 26 to 30 are ten strokes behind.
The FedEx Cup winner will receive US$15 million, equivalent to NOK 135.2 million. Hovland finished last year in joint 20th place in the Tour Championship.
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