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Viktor Hovland suffers freak holiday injury – Australian Golf Digest

Viktor Hovland suffers freak holiday injury – Australian Golf Digest

Viktor Hovland suffered what appeared to be a freak injury to his foot during the holidays.

Hovland posted an x-ray to his Instagram over the weekend that looked to be a broken pinky toe. “Bed frame 1 – 0 me,” Hovland wrote under the photo.

The Ryder Cup star is supposed to play in the PGA Tour’s season-opening Sentry event in Maui this week, and as of writing is still listed in the field. According to Eurosport, Hovland is hoping that painkillers and tape will be enough to get him through the competition, although Kapalua’s Plantation course is one of the harder walks on the tour thanks to its mountainous topography.

Hovland, 27, captured the FedEx Cup in 2023, but is coming off a somewhat rocky campaign with just two top-10 finishes in 16 starts following a series of swing changes. The Norwegian is still ranked inside the top 10 in the Official World Golf Ranking and earned an invite to Maui thanks to finishing 12th in the FedEx Cup, a standing helped by a third-place finish at the PGA Championship and T-2 at the playoff-opening event in Memphis.

Hovland’s injury comes on the heels of Scottie Scheffler’s hand injury suffered on Christmas, which will sideline the three-time Player of the Year for at least a month.

This article was originally published on golfdigest.com