{"id":1178272,"date":"2026-08-31T02:35:21","date_gmt":"2026-08-31T02:35:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/1178272\/"},"modified":"2026-08-31T02:35:21","modified_gmt":"2026-08-31T02:35:21","slug":"viktor-hovland-makes-a-statement-about-scottie-scheffler-after-he-wins-the-tour-championship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/1178272\/","title":{"rendered":"Viktor Hovland makes a statement about Scottie Scheffler after he wins the Tour Championship"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>   <a class=\"fw\" href=\"https:\/\/profile.google.com\/cp\/Cg0vZy8xMWcxajNfc2h3\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\"> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"28\" height=\"28\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hitc.com\/wp-content\/themes\/grv-media\/img\/google-discover.svg\" alt=\"\"\/> Follow us on Google Discover <\/a>  <\/p>\n<p><strong>Scottie Scheffler pipped Viktor Hovland to the Tour Championship on Sunday at East Lake, winning the FedEx Cup in the process.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Scheffler shot a final round 66 to claim the Tour Championship title, while Hovland stumbled to a round of 72.<\/p>\n<p>The world number one ended the 2026 season in superb style, while the Norwegian will be left ruing a huge missed opportunity.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hitc.com\/topic\/viktor-hovland\/\" data-type=\"post_tag\" data-id=\"99191\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Viktor Hovland<\/a> actually got the better of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hitc.com\/topic\/scottie-scheffler\/\" data-type=\"post_tag\" data-id=\"98399\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Scottie Scheffler<\/a> earlier this season at the Travelers Championship, but the 30-year-old got his own back on the man from Norway on Sunday at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hitc.com\/topic\/tour-championship\/\" data-type=\"post_tag\" data-id=\"99036\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Tour Championship<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\"  src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/GettyImages-2283771185-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"Travelers Championship 2026 - Final Round\" \/>Photo by Andrew Redington\/Getty Images<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hitc.com\/viktor-hovland-confirms-what-his-relationship-with-scottie-scheffler-is-really-like-as-they-compete-for-the-travelers\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Scheffler and Hovland share a good relationship<\/a>, but they are both seriously competitive on the golf course.<\/p>\n<p>And the American got the better of the Norwegian in the 2026 PGA Tour season finale.<\/p>\n<p>Viktor Hovland makes statement about Scottie Scheffler after the Tour Championship<\/p>\n<p>The eight-time PGA Tour winner spoke to reporters after his final round at the Tour Championship on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>Hovland responded when asked by reporters whether he is amazed by Scheffler\u2019s incredible ability to win with such regularity.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" loading=\"lazy\"  src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/GettyImages-2219987654-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"Scottie Scheffler shakes hands with Viktor Hovland after finishing the second round of the U.S. OPEN at Oakmont\" class=\"wp-image-2585156\" \/>Photo by Patrick Smith\/Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI wouldn\u2019t say amazed. It\u2019s good. He\u2019s just good, and he played good every day,\u201c the Norwegian said. <\/p>\n<p>MORE VIKTOR HOVLAND STORIES<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI could have shot 66 easily as well today, just didn\u2019t have it. The ball was going left and right, but if I feel like I know where the ball\u2019s going, 66 is easy to shoot out there.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cKudos to him is that he shows up and does it when you have to do it, and that\u2019s how you win golf tournaments, and that\u2019s how he\u2019s won so much.\u201c<\/p>\n<p>Ryan Gerard raves about Scottie Scheffler\u2019s ability<\/p>\n<p>Gerard told reporters how difficult the challenge was at East Lake on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>He admitted that Scheffler\u2019s round of 66 was very impressive when discussing his own struggles.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s not for a lack of effort. It\u2019s not for a lack of mentality,\u201c he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s just I didn\u2019t have it as well as I needed it today and just grinded it out hard. Hats off to Scottie. <\/p>\n<p>\u201c66 out there is pretty nice given some of the pin placements and the conditions.\u201c<\/p>\n<p>Scottie Scheffler\u2019s final round at the Tour Championship on Sunday was a joy to watch, and he was certainly a deserving winner of the FedEx Cup trophy.<\/p>\n<p>Join Our Newsletter<\/p>\n<p>Receive exclusive football transfer news and updates twice a week to your mailbox<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Follow us on Google Discover Scottie Scheffler pipped Viktor Hovland to the Tour Championship on Sunday at East&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1178273,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[4106],"tags":[2826,4288,79,121302,16,15,74665],"class_list":["post-1178272","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-golf","tag-golf","tag-scottie-scheffler","tag-sports","tag-tour-championship","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-viktor-hovland"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/117187795505677334","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1178272","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1178272"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1178272\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1178273"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1178272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1178272"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1178272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}