When the established guard for the PGA Tour talks about the rising stars that start a new era of interest, all conversations with Ludvig Aberg begin.
The 25-year-old stands highly and figuratively, since the 6-foot-2-Swede already has a couple of PGA tours on his resume, leads the early 2025 FedExcup position and has been a prominent during the first season of TGL.
Aberg ranked as the fourth in the world and comes from a victory on Genesis Invitational. But his star could reach new heights in the coming months.
He turns off at Arnold Palmer Invitational in Orlando on Thursday forward Players Championship Florida Coast next week, and with Masters just a month away.
Aberg band for 25th last year at Bay Hill, a course he said requires a lot of patience. That in itself can be the biggest challenge for a young golfer who admits he likes to play quickly.
“Bay Hill is definitely one of the most iconic,” Aberg said Wednesday. “It’s a cool golf course because you somehow have to take many pictures, you can’t really save. You will get many tee shots over water, many cool other shots over water.
“It will be important to stay patience, but also be very aggressive to our goals.”
While Bay Hill is iconic, it is not ranked as high on Aberg’s list as TPC Sawgrass. And he would know, after playing it several times since moving to Ponte Vedra Beach last month.
“For me, it’s a top-five golf course in the world,” he said. “Tee to green, I think it’s amazing. It’s right in front of you. You have to meet the shots, but if you don’t, you will be punished, which is the kind of golf I really like. So I can’t help myself but play it a lot when I’m home.
“If there is an advantage I’m not sure. Many guys in the field have played it many times, but it’s a really cool place.”
Aberg sits after only several great champions Scottie Scheffler, Rory Mcilroy and Xander Schauffele in the official world golfing. He could have closed the gap on that trio even further after a T5 at the season opening Sentry, but he got sick while led Farmers Insurance Open, was forced to withdraw from Pebble Beach the following week and then returned to win the rise.
Aberg called it “a bit of a roller coaster”, but he is excited for the upcoming stretch of “cool” tournaments at some of the tour’s most iconic arenas. After the players, he takes a trip to see Augusta for the first time since April last year, when he finished the runner to Scheffler.
But first is Bay Hill. And for a young player with a deep appreciation of the game’s history, Aberg would like to add his name to Palmer’s Trophy.
“You can’t speak enough about what Arnold Palmer and his legacy mean to our game,” he said. “I try to do what he does, or how he did it, which was fantastic.
“If you can do it something he did, I think you will be pretty good.”
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