Viktor Hovland is the boss of his own swing.

As he prepares to (hopefully) compete in The Sentry, Hovland said Norsk Golf that he has separated again from swing teacher Joe Mayo.

“I’m no longer working with Mayo,” Hovland told the Norwegian outlet. “We ended this collaboration about a month ago. … I don’t need to go into it, but we had a little disagreement about what to do next, what’s best for me.”

Hovland began working with Joe Mayo in 2023, but they initially parted ways after Hovland won the FedExCup in August and reunited before this year’s PGA Championship. Hovland also worked with coaches Grant Waite and Dana Dahlquist this year and said he is currently sending videos to “another coach” in an advisory capacity.

“I feel like I’ve learned so much now and have so much expertise that I don’t need anyone to hold my hand anymore,” Hovland said.

Hovland is coming off a year in which he didn’t win a tournament for the first time since turning professional in 2019 – Hovland suffered a stress fracture in his right pinky that forced him to sit out a few weeks after the Tour Championship – and he played just 17 events in 2024, six fewer than the year before.

He still made it to East Lake last fall and remains in the top 10 of the Official World Golf Ranking at No. 8 entering this new season.

“Competition costs so much energy when the technical aspects are not right,” said Hovland. “The coincidences make the game merciless, and then I’d rather go home and practice.”… And yet this year I was close to winning my first major. It taught me that my game doesn’t have to be perfect.”

As for this week, Hovland is not only dealing with a calcium deposit around the cartilage of the injured finger, which Hovland said has left the finger “somewhat exposed,” but he’s also tending to a broken toe and the injury he sustained recently has week.

Hovland initially shared an X-ray of the broken right pinky toe and told Norsk Golf that the injury occurred in his hotel room in Hawaii. He had fallen asleep with the lights on and his travel clothes still on, and when he woke up to turn off the lights and undress, he accidentally stubbed his toe on the corner of the bed. During a visit to the emergency room, the fracture was discovered, which Hovland said will take four to six weeks to fully heal.

After hitting a few balls barefoot while trying to take weight off his injured foot, Hovland says the pain is subsiding and he will wait until Thursday to decide whether he will play at Kapalua or retire.

“It’s not ideal,” Hovland said. “But adversity builds character, and we all need a few punches in the face every now and then.”