Currently in contention at the 2025 US Open at Oakmont Country Club, Viktor Hovland is poised to challenge for the third Major Championship.
Turning pro in 2019 and gaining his PGA Tour card in 2020, he has already racked up seven wins in America. To add to that, he won the FedEx Cup in 2023 and enjoyed a prolonged spell in the top five of the Official World Golf Ranking.
There is just one thing missing though... a Major trophy.
The Norwegian has come close to adding one of the four esteemed titles to his trophy cabinet. In 2023, he came T2 at the PGA Championship and finished T4 at the 150th Open in 2022.
Viktor Hovland's Best Major Finishes:
- 2023 PGA Championship - T2
- 2024 PGA Championship - 3
- 2023 Masters - T7
- 2022 Open Championship - T4
- 2021 Open Championship - T12
- 2019 US Open - T12
Hovland has struggled since his successful campaign in 2023, winning just once since, at the 2025 Valspar Championship. In his 12 starts so far this year, that win was his only top ten and he has also missed four cuts.
After injury that cut short his 2024 season and breaking from coach Joe Mayo, marking their second split in just 15 months, he struggled to kick on from his FedEx Cup success. He failed to win for the first time in his career across a single season and carded a career-low in top 10s.
However, Hovland is starting to find some form again and is looking much like his old self. This year he is 9th for Strokes Gained: Approach The Green and 20th for Birdie Average, on the PGA Tour.
His iron play and putting have been magnificent throughout the third Major so far, and if both continue, he will be well in the mix to win come Sunday.
After the second round, he said, "I've definitely felt better about it (swing). But still haven't been overly confident in my ball-striking up until recently.
"But last week we saw some really good progress, and earlier this week was very happy with some of the shots that I was hitting out there in the practice rounds. Super excited that I was able to take that out with me in the tournament.
"Yeah, for some reason I've just been in a really nice mental state this week. It's like, both my rounds have been very up and down.
"I feel like a couple times if it would have happened at another tournament, for example, I could have potentially lost my mind there a little bit. But I felt like I kept things together very well."
In 2019, the European Ryder Cup star finished in T12 at the US Open and was the low-amateur at Pebble Beach. It was his first Major as a professional and is his best result in the tournament.
Current PGA Tour Players Yet To Win A Major
He isn't the only star name not to win a Major so far in his career. The likes of Tommy Fleetwood and Rickie Fowler, who are renowned names on the PGA Tour, are just two of a long list of players yet to pick up one of the four big men's trophies.
Fowler for instance has come second in three of the four, with his best PGA Championship finsh being third.
Tommy Fleetwood also has two second places at both the US Open and Open Championship and has top-fives in all four tournaments.
Here's a list of a number of the current tour players yet to win a Major, some of which may surprise you:
Notable PGA Tour Players Who Haven't Yet Won A Major:
- Viktor Hovland
- Tommy Fleetwood
- Ludvig Aberg
- Patrick Cantlay
- Rickie Fowler
- Tony Finau
- Sam Burns
- Russell Henley
- Min Woo Lee
- Sepp Straka
Notable LIV Golf Players Who Haven't Yet Won A Major:
- Joaquin Niemann
- Marc Leishman
- Tyrrell Hatton
- Abraham Ancer
- Paul Casey
- Lee Westwood
