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Cole Hammer talks warming up next to Tiger as a 15-year-old at the U.S. Open, winning the National Championship with Texas

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🗓️ 6 December 2022

⏱️ 67 minutes

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On this week's episode of GOLF's Subpar, 2022 NCAA Champion Cole Hammer joins former PGA Tour pro Colt Knost and jicky jack legend Drew Stoltz for an exclusive, interview. The recent University of Texas graduate talks why he stayed in school for all four years, hitting warm up shots next to Tiger Woods at the U.S. Open and whether or not he has considered LIV golf a viable alternative to the PGA Tour.   Subpar Podcast: https://linktr.ee/Golf1271 Birdie Juice Merch: https://proshop.golf.com/collections/birdie-juice-collection -- Thanks to our official sponsor Dewar's. Make sure to check out their Reserve Bar listings today: https://www.reservebar.com/collections/house-of-dewars    As we always say, Rokform is the #1 speaker in the game today.  Visit http://rokform.com and use promo code SUBROK25 at checkout for 25% off your entire order.   Thanks to our newest sponsor Pinned Golf. Head to www.pinnedgolf.com and use code SUBPAR to get yourself a brand new rangefinder today for only $179.99!

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0:00.0

All right, hello world. Welcome back to golf subpar with Colt Nost and Drew Stoltz.

0:14.2

Uh, Sleeze apparently our man Victor Hovlin. He does not like playing in America or anywhere

0:20.7

where there's not shit loads of wind and super grainy conditions. The guys from Norway

0:25.2

and I've never met a Norwegian that loves wind and Bermuda grass as much as Victor Hovlin. Look

0:30.5

at his five wins. Yeah, we got two at the Hero World Challenge, two at my Acoba and Puerto Rico.

0:35.0

Move the masters to Bermuda next year with the US Open in some other tropical region.

0:41.7

But he put on a ball striking clinic and it recently went to Aimpoint in the pudding because he

0:46.8

said he's been struggling with reading greens. It worked. At one point he won put it like 18 of

0:51.8

26 holes. He puts it good down there and he put it from off a lot of guys. She's the

0:56.0

I don't know from off the green. We were sitting there with Chaffee this past weekend and he's like

0:59.6

this is the home of grain. There's not a grainy or place in the world and I think that's why maybe

1:05.2

he's so good down there like his ball striking is awesome right. The teeter green is about as good

1:09.2

as you're going to find or he's top you know whatever in the world. Everyone struggles chipping down

1:13.9

there. So it kind of just handcuffs like the great shippers and all of a sudden if you're not

1:17.1

losing shots when you're missing greens or you're everyone's grabbing putter and stuff like that.

1:20.1

It's like all right now it just becomes a ball striking contest and that's I mean it's good.

1:24.2

Not many better. Yeah, they're not many better than Victor. But he made it pretty interesting.

1:27.3

It looked like he was going to run away when Scotty Shefford made the double bogey on nine

1:31.2

and then Scotty got hot there. I believe he birdie 13 14 15 and then Victor hitting it in the water

1:37.7

with that second shot. I could not believe that a the five shot lead at the turn. I was like okay

1:42.5

starting out the things over cruising then 18 my all right it's a little bit dicey hit the

1:46.8

shot out to the right. I was you get told me he's going to hit that next ball anywhere in the

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