The PGA Tour still can’t stop Viktor Hovland.
Entering this week’s Genesis Invitational, tournament officials set up an electronic leaderboard near the tee box at Riviera’s par-4 15th hole to deter players, mainly Hovland, from playing their tee shots down the 17th fairway, which runs parallel to the right.
It hasn’t worked, at least when it comes to Hovland, who has been taking the alternate route since he played the 2017 U.S. Amateur at Riv.
“It’s just the bunker on 15 is such a severe penalty, so basically I'm taking that bunker out of play by going to the right,” Hovland said last year.