Eight days after he won the BMW Championship, another virtuoso performance gave Viktor Hovland his sixth PGA TOUR victory and the FedExCup as he became the first Norwegian in golf history to claim the PGA TOUR’s ultimate prize.
Hovland’s performance at the Playoffs Finale, the TOUR Championship was sensational, particularly on the weekend when he shot 66 on Saturday to open a six-stroke lead over Xander Schauffele. And he closed with a 63 that would have been Sunday’s low score had the American not nipped him by one in their entertaining duel.
That round of 7-under was Hovland’s 11th straight sub-70 round and one of the 37 he fired this year. Hovland, who didn’t miss a cut in 23 starts this season - and finished 25th or better in all but five - put together a 64.33 scoring average in the final round of the Playoffs, better than anyone in FedExCup history.
Hovland led the field in Driving Accuracy for the second straight week – the only player to do so at the BMW Championship and TOUR Championship in the same season since the Playoffs began in 2007. His 68.45 percentage for the three post-season events was the best ever by a FedExCup champion.
And continuing another trend, he hit 76.39 percent of his greens in regulation during the Playoffs, better than any other FedExCup champion. Hovland’s proximity to the hole average of 25 feet, 8 inches was second only to Rory McIlroy’s tally of last year among players who took home the season-ending bonus.
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