Ludvig Aberg calm and collected ahead of first Open experience

Aberg is as smooth with a microphone as he is with a golf club.

Ludvig Aberg on the 1st hole during day four of the Genesis Scottish Open 2024 at The Renaissance Club. Picture: Malcolm Mackenzie/PA Wire.

You think you’ve absorbed the sheer chutzpah of Ludvig Aberg’s rise. The Ryder Cup heroics, the tour wins, the impossible maturity the Swede displays on and off the course. Then he comes to Royal Troon and you realise this will be his first Open Championship.

“I’ve never even been to one,” he said, matter-of-factly.