Though he has only won one PGA Tour event so far this season — and an opposite-field event at that — there’s a case to be made that Oklahoma State’s Viktor Hovland is the hottest golfer on the planet. Let’s make it.
Here’s what you need to know going in: That line your dad uses about driving for show and putting for dough? Yeah, it’s not true. It’s not reality. On the PGA Tour — and specifically in PGA Tour events (i.e. non-majors) — you drive for dough and hit filthy irons for more dough. Putting is sort of incidental.