Tom Hamilton, Senior Scribbler
GUIDONIA MONTECELIO, Italy — Viktor Hovland confirmed the residue of his Ryder Cup workforce what’s conceivable at the shorten par 4 5th gap at Marco Simone with a splendid hole-in-one in follow on Thursday.
It was once Europe’s ultimate follow sooner than the Ryder Cup begins on Friday. The 5th gap at Marco Simone is 302 yards, entire with a greenside lake at the left facet of the golf green.
🚨 VIKTOR HOVLAND MAKES A HOLE-IN-ONE ON A PAR 4! #TeamEurope pic.twitter.com/OnsEG19UC6
— Ryder Cup Europe (@RyderCupEurope) September 28, 2023
His teammates and fellow follow companions Tyrrell Hatton, Matt Fitzpatrick and Ludvig Aberg had effectively pushed the golf green, nevertheless it was once Hovland who produced the products with a pinpoint three-wood off the deck.
Oath reached his teammates at the 6th gap, with Rory McIlroy asking captain Luke Donald who’d produced the ace: “It was Viktor, but with his second ball.”
There were six holes-in-one in event historical past — Peter Butler (1973), Nick Faldo (1993), Constantino Rocca (1995), Howard Clark (1995), Paul Casey (2006), Scott Verplank (2006). And there has handiest been one ace on a par-4 in PGA Excursion historical past from Andrew Magee on the 2001 Phoenix Evident.
