When the established guard of the PGA Tour speak in regards to the rising stars who’re ushering in a brand new period of curiosity, all conversations start with Ludvig Aberg.
The 25-year-old stands tall actually and figuratively, because the 6-foot-2 Swede already has a pair of PGA Tour victories on his resume, leads the early 2025 FedExCup standings and has been a standout in the course of the first season of the TGL.
Ranked fourth on the planet, Aberg is coming off a win at The Genesis Invitational. However his star might attain new heights within the coming months.
He tees off on the Arnold Palmer Invitational in Orlando on Thursday forward The Gamers Championship up the Florida coast subsequent week, and with the Masters solely a month away.
Aberg tied for twenty fifth final 12 months at Bay Hill, a course that he stated requires quite a lot of endurance. That in itself may be the largest problem for a younger golfer who admits he likes to play shortly.
“Bay Hill is unquestionably one of the crucial iconic ones,” Aberg stated Wednesday. “It is a cool golf course since you form of need to take quite a lot of pictures on, you’ll be able to’t actually bail out. You are going to get quite a lot of tee pictures over water, quite a lot of cool second pictures over water.
“Will probably be essential to remain affected person, but additionally being very aggressive to our targets.”
Whereas Bay Hill is iconic, it does not rank as excessive on Aberg’s listing as TPC Sawgrass. And he would know, having performed it quite a few instances since shifting to Ponte Vedra Seashore final month.
“For me, it is a top-five golf course on the planet,” he stated. “Tee to inexperienced, I feel it is superb. It is proper in entrance of you. It’s a must to hit the pictures, however if you happen to do not, you are going to get punished, which is the kind of golf that I actually like. So I am unable to assist myself however play it quite a bit after I’m dwelling.
“If there’s a bonus, I am undecided. Lots of guys within the discipline have performed it loads of instances, nevertheless it’s a very cool place.”
Aberg sits behind solely a number of main champions Scottie Scheffler, Rory McIlroy and Xander Schauffele within the Official World Golf Rating. He might have closed the hole on that trio even additional after a T5 on the season-opening The Sentry, however he fell sick whereas main the Farmers Insurance coverage Open, was pressured to withdraw from Pebble Seashore the next week after which returned to win the Genesis.
Aberg known as it “slightly little bit of a curler coaster,” however he is excited for the upcoming stretch of “cool” tournaments at among the tour’s most iconic venues. After The Gamers, he’ll make a journey to see Augusta for the primary time since final April, when he completed runner-up to Scheffler.
However first is Bay Hill. And for a younger participant with a deep appreciation for the historical past of the sport, Aberg would love so as to add his identify to Palmer’s trophy.
“You possibly can’t communicate sufficient of what Arnold Palmer and his legacy means to our recreation,” he stated. “I form of attempt to do it the best way that he does it, or the best way he did it, which was superb.
“In case you can barely do it the best way that he did it, I feel you are going to be fairly good.”
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