KAWAGOE, Japan – As team chemistry goes, this wasn’t exactly what one would expect from Olympic countrymen.
“I hated him,” Viktor Hovland smiled Tuesday at Kasumigaseki Country Club.
Hovland was referring to his Norwegian teammate for this week’s Olympics, Kristian Johannessen. It all started when Hovland was deciding where he wanted to attend high school.
“We were playing a junior event in Spain,” Hovland explained on Tuesday. “I was sharing a room with a good friend of mine, but he had a girlfriend at the time and she was there a lot, so I didn't get to spend the time that I needed to in that room and I was young at the time and I might have like complained a lot about that.