PGA Tour winner admits he ‘sucks’ at golf currently as he says his game is just not ‘very good’ right now

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The PGA Tour continues this week with the AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am, where a long list of star names are involved.

PGA Tour icons Scottie Scheffler and Rory McIlroy will both take on the AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am, with the former making a long-awaited return from injury.

Scheffler thinks the Pebble Beach greens are firmer, with the world number one having played and finished in the top 10 last time out.

Defending champion Wyndham Clark also returns, having set the Pebble Beach course record last year with a 12-under 60.

Like McIlroy, Clark has been playing TGL in Florida, but the pair now turn their attentions to the PGA Tour event in California.

Viktor Hovland admits he ‘sucks’ at golf ahead of AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am

Also featuring at the tournament is six-time PGA Tour winner Viktor Hovland, who finished T36 at The Sentry at the beginning of the season before missing the cut at the Dubai Desert Classic.

He took a four-month break before returning in a bid to recover from a wrist injury and refine his swing, with the Norwegian asked in his opening AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am press conference for an update on the state of his game.

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“It’s not very good,” said Hovland. “Yeah, it’s been frustrating. I do feel like I’m making headway and I’m constantly trying to put the piece of the puzzle together.

“Even if I’m not seeing results from day to day, which is extremely frustrating, I do feel like I’m learning more.

“Even if kind of that domino doesn’t start to fall today or tomorrow or the next day, I’m hoping the cumulative effect of that knowledge and experience, eventually I’ll get over that hump and we’ll turn things around.

“Right now it’s pretty frustrating. This game of golf, as I said earlier, it’s very elusive, it’s counterintuitive and it’s very difficult right now.

“But I know there’s a lot of good golf in me that will be there in the future and that I’ve played in the past. Things will turn around soon. In my opinion I suck at it right now, but that’s all relative.”

Viktor Hovland makes ‘100%’ recovery from freak toe injury

The Norwegian was undoubtedly looking for a strong start to the season, having failed to win on the PGA Tour in 2024.

But he only managed to add to his frustrations with a freak injury suffered ahead of the season opener in Hawaii.

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And that involved an unfortunate stubbing of his baby toe on a bed frame, having been left exhausted by a 24-hour trip from Norway to Kapalua.

Hovland treated the injury with tape and painkillers, but still walked with a noticeable limp at the Plantation course.

But Eurosport’s Espen Blaker has now issued a positive update on the PGA Tour icon, writing on X: “Viktor reports himself 100%. ‘The toe is fine. We’re back. It doesn’t hurt, and I don’t have to tape it. It should be an easy job to get around here’.”