Smylie Kaufman is joined by six-time PGA Tour victor, winner of the 2023 Tour Championship and FedEx Cup, and the de facto MVP of the 2023 Ryder Cup – Viktor Hovland. Viktor covers everything from how he got hooked on death metal, to the transformative short game work he did this year with Joe Mayo, to his chip-in (with Smylie’s call!) on the first hole at the Ryder Cup.
0:00 Ryder Cup songs + what he’s been up to since
3:46 The origins of his golf game
12:08 How he got into death metal
14:47 College years at Oklahoma State
19:06 Early pro years and “Big Three” with Morikawa & Wolff
22:04 Short game work with Joe Mayo (video breakdown)
38:23 Smylie’s prediction on Golf Digest pod
43:10 Smylie covering Viktor’s Friday AM foursomes group at Ryder Cup
48:03 Playing with Ludvig Åberg
54:50 Says he’s been watching clips from our show!
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Have a great day!
Awesome interview, Viktor is just the best! Wonder if Viktor loves Opeth, my favourite band?
Yasss new interview with VIK. I hope he wins this week at the OAK TREE pro-scratch invitational! 👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏
Malta 🇲🇹 is sweet. I went in oct 2021 cool island country.
21:30 main example of why VIKs the man. Real stuff!
Great interview Smylie! Love the video & analysis talk. Finally something new!
Also, you may have called him this year, As greatest golfer! But I knew he would be since day one. When I saw him play pebble during the us open 2019!!!
44:38 👏🙌👏👏must be so amazing to be able to relive the greatness from how us mere mortals see it. “Suck it Smylie“ 😂😂😂😂🎉 I love when the players get to prove the announcers wrong! But you did great out there on coverage other than that Smylie 🎉😊
Vik getting to number one in the world soon
Such a grounded guy!
Great guy great Player! Thank you Smylie for an awesome Interview! Well done!
Soon to be #1 in the world, already #1 in our hearts
Sick interview
Great interview guys. Viktor always great value and really interesting and insightful.
Not like an American not to know where somewhere is.😂
Great interview though Smylie.
12:50 Blame the Swede for his music taste! Love it.
Love the Smylie show! And as a lifelong OSU fan followed Viktor for a long time.
Great show fellas
How good was that podcast? Those 55 minutes flew by; I didn't want it to end. Great job by all. Thank you!
Nice one Smylie! Great interview 😊
We need to get Smylie some new headphones.
The chemistry between Viktor and you Smylie was the best I've experienced. Have a great game today and love you on the broadcasts as well.
So much talent both of you have. I love golf and seeing Viktor talk about his path to the best along with the footage of his chipping was amazing.
finest man in earth ❤
My first time checking out The Smylie Show. Such a great interview by Smylie, being able to relate with Viktor through his own elite level background and go deep talking about technique. Really rare stuff in golf podcasts. Also the enthusiasm towards golf clearly comes through. Great stuff, will be following going forward.
OK … I just have to ask … after me saying this was a cool interview Viktor my fellow Norwegian 🇳🇴. I've tried in few none stalking ways to ge him on my channel and we would then mainly talk about all kind of band as most interview cover the golf part enough and I hope and think he will love the music on my Metalheads Golf YouTube channel. Awesome to see you have some good time with him. Awesome. 🤘🏻😎🤘🏻 Stay metal dude.