Viktor Hovland drew encouragement from the fans wearing OSU orange.
A helpful thing for him, because the difficulty of Tulsa’s Southern Hills Country Club, the site of the 2022 PGA Championship, ensured a smattering of black, the other OSU color that also represents bogeys, across many golfers’ scorecards.
“It was a lot of fun,” Hovland, who has a Pistol Pete patch emblazoned between sponsorship logos on his bag, said. “Hearing a lot of ‘Go Pokes’ and ‘Go Viktor’ and a lot of good support out there, so that was fun. I was out of position a couple times, and instead of maybe letting that linger with the mood a little bit, when you hear people are rooting for you, it's kind of easy to snap out and refocus.