La Jolla, California – Ludvig Aberg turned to his Caddy, Joe Skovron Ludvig Aberg, and said, “This Sunday is a bit nicer than the one we had with the farmers.”
It was a reference to a month ago during the annual PGA Tour-Stop in San Diego, where Aberg gave the 36-hole ahead of the Farmers Insurance open before he fluid for the third round all night for the third round. He threw both the reach and on the track, but tried to push it out. He went for more than 48 hours without keeping food low, losing a fast eight pounds and shooting a final round 79 to tumble to a T-42 finish. He tried to play at the AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am-AM the next week, but that wasn’t better. He opened with 77 and tied the longest piece too large rounds in his tour career. Afterwards he crashed in his room and when he woke up, he still felt so messy that he said he had no choice but to withdraw from the tournament. He flew to Florida and said he stayed in bed until Tuesday of the following week before he resumed the training.
On Sunday, in the unexpected return from the tour to Torrey Pines, Aberg enjoyed a week of redemption, so that four Birdies were deposited in his last six holes to shoot 66 and win the Genesis Invitational with one blow about Maverick McNealy.
Perhaps nobody was happier to hear that the Genesis Invitational would be moved to Torrey Pines than Aberg. Wild burning in the Greater Los Angeles area Last month made it impossible to organize the event in Riviera, the typical location for the annual visit of the Tour to Tinseltown and forced the Tour to Scurry for a replacement course.
“I was very happy,” said Aberg. “I love this place, I think it’s one of the best golf courses we play.”
Aberg shot 2-over 74 in wet, heavy conditions, but bounced back with 66 on Friday and a third round 70, which included his first bait on tour, so that he only went back to the latter round.
Various players made at a Chamber of Commerce, including World No. Scottie Scheffler, charging the Leaderboard. Scheffler visited the front in 31, but that was not even the low score on the front nine. McNealy, who started the day five strokes together with Scheffler, shot 30 when he shot nine of the first 13 Holes Birdied.
“It’s really nice if the ball comes out exactly the way you want, when you are on a putt and you feel it just goes in,” said McNealy. “It is one of those things that you get on a role, you know that it will end at some point, but you just want to extend is as much as possible.”
McNealy made his only bogey of the day at 14, his first in 26 holes, and missed a 15-foot Birdie attempt at 18. He signed for 8-below 64.
Aberg was stuck in neutral early and forced Birdies on nrs. 2 and 3 with bogeys on nrs. 4 and 5, but the 25-year-old Swede never detained.
“He always keeps going,” said Skovron. “He is not rattled much.”
Aberg responded with a wonderful approach to the seventh to set up a 7-foot birdie and added a kick-in birdie at 9 am. But with McNealy who led at the age of 12, Aberg still had the ground to make it right. He has a must-make, 7-foot left to right bending par putt at no. 12 to stay in the mix.
“I think if I hadn’t made it, I don’t think I would have won today,” he said.
Aberg said he felt control of his ball flight all day and he stuck three birdies in a row from 13, including a 25-foot putt on 15. Yet he arrived at the Par-5 18one Bound for the management. He strived a T -shirt and easily cleaned up the pond that fronted the green, his ball stopped 68 feet of the hole on the rear edge of the green. Aberg left himself 7 feet for the victory and clamped both fists on each other after the final of his 276 shots for the week for his second career tour title.
Scheffler (66) and 54-hole leader Patrick Rodgers (71) bound for the third in 9 below. Patrick Cantlay (68), Denny McCarthy (71), Tommy Fleetwood (68) and Tony Finau (68) bound for the fifth at 8 under.
A month ago, tournament -guestheer Tiger Woods stood behind Aberg and saw him hit for 10 minutes of balls for a TGL match in awe. On CBS, Tiger said about the Swing of Aberg: “It can’t go wrong with it. Occasionally he can accelerate and get stuck, but other than that, he hits this tight little draw.” A month later, Aberg stood next to Tiger and received the trophy of the winner of his youth idol.
“Tiger is the goat, he is my goat, he means so much for our sport and to stand here as the tournament champion, I am so proud and grateful,” he said.
And with a few pounds to win to return to his fighting weight, how did Aberg be celebrating his victory?
“Good question,” he said. “I feel that this has been my last day on the west coast for quite some time, so I think in-nout would be appropriate. I will no longer be on the west coast for a while, so I think I will benefit from That opportunity. “
This article originally appeared on Golf Week: Ludvig Aberg Birdies 4 of his last 6 holes to win Genesis at Torrey
