Viktor Hovland has yet to win a major championship, but it looks like his mind isn’t just on the upcoming Open Championship at Royal Troon. The always-entertaining Norwegian spoke to The Telegraph on his third-place finish at the PGA, his two missed cuts at the Masters and U.S. Open and … what the deal is with all the aliens out there. This is truly the interview we deserve heading into the final major of the calendar year.
The following quote from the Tom Kershaw piece is as beautiful as it gets. In a matter of moments, Hov jumps from aliens to his ideas on how humanity should be “preparing for the afterlife.” What else could you possibly want from your pro athletes?
“It’s like, what is the deal with all the aliens?” Hovland asks. “There seem to be some pilots and commanders that explain what they saw and have video footage of it, so it’s like, ‘Huh, what is that?’ I find the reluctance to talk about that stuff fascinating.
“The conspiracy is one thing but then also the reaction to it. What do you think happens after we die? We don’t know. The establishment will say, ‘Your neurons will stop firing. Your body will rot.’ OK, that’s one explanation but, if you look at our ancestors, there’s a huge culture that goes into preparing for the afterlife. Were they just idiots or were they onto something? I’m just curious to find out. We’ve gotten sold that we have all the answers but there’s just so much we don’t know. I find those questions super motivating and I just want to figure it out.”
There’s a lot to dissect here, and we’d love for Hovland to break down some alien video footage for us. He may not have a green jacket yet, but it sounds like he’ll have a PhD in astrophysics some day.
Hovland goes on to admit that he knows that he needs a major, but he’s not “losing sleep” over the missing accolade just yet. “I’m not a guy that just wants to blindly follow people and be told what to do,” Hovland admits. “I want to understand everything.”