Victor Hoffland looked like one of the biggest stars of the sport when the 2023 PGA Tour ended. He had won three tournaments, including the triple tournament, and his year finished fourth in the world’s official Golf World rankings — alone after Scott Schiffler, Rorry McLeroi and John Rahm.
Hoffland failed to resist the 2024 turning point, but these changes have been the opposite of their intentional effects, as the 27-year-old was relegated to the 19th place last year.
During that time, Hoffland worns in nickname championships, which is likely to change a corner — the most prominent of which won third place in last year’s PGA — but unity was a real issue.
They entered the 2025 Valspasser tournament this week, the three cuts in five incidents in 2025. On Friday, Hoffland made a big game to raise Leaderboard in Inisbrock, a 4-Under 67 kick to get into a draw to the second to offer his first real opportunity this season.
After the course, Hoffland was frank about its recent conflicts and explained what it prevented from a confidence and constant turning point.
“He sucks,” he said. “You have the ability to see sometimes as normal. You just wake up every day and you’re standing on the ball and waiting for the ball to start in that direction and go in that direction and eventually be near the hole.
“It’s very annoying, and you start thinking about things you’ve never thought before. This game will be more infinite, and it’s really active now. So, it’s really arrogance — and a kind of treatment for learning there. Good, I’d like I like it, I like, I like it.
Hoffland also said how he dealt with these boredoms.
“I’m difficult for myself, yes. But that’s why I’m fine,” he said. “If I’m not difficult for myself, I might not go out here. And yes, I know that even with a terrible mechanic I still can leave here and take a couple of beautiful marks, but that can lead to 80 beatings. On the right, you can’t play with that.
Every player in the amateur has seen this feeling, and there is something that is both comfort and terrible of the fact that even a player who has reached the third place in the world can face the same challenge. If everything feels that the ball must go in the same way, and instead, it will come out of the club’s face and start from elsewhere, it is impossible to keep confidently swearing –, especially, as Hovland pointed out, in the heavier leagues.
Although the weekend is walking at Vallspari, we see that Havland is making progress on his survey, especially because Cooperation Country is not the most friendly in the PGA tour.
In order for him to pull himself up in more than a year with his first success, he must take that positive feeling from Friday to another two days. The challenge is in a situation like Hovland is an inner chicken against the golf egg war. You need confidence to make a good swelling, but you need a good turning point and you will see good results to have that confidence.
That’s why it may be unbelievable for Hoffland this weekend. If he can put together good three consecutive days and connect his first success in more than a year, he may be able to be able to become a real threat to the big championships. On the other hand, if he gets off the routes on Saturday or Sunday, Hovland can end the game in the first square with the Friday 67 will act only as a marjama in the desert.