Before we start – and before I had to say it out loud, on the camera – I needed some explanations from Ludwig åberg.
How do you pronounce your surname?
“I always tell people” Oh-Berg “is the best way to say it,” he says. “I don’t know where ‘Oh-Bear’, or ‘Oh-Burge’ (said to rhyme with ‘cleaning’). I don’t know where this comes from.”
So how does it do it Say?
“It’s is different in Swedish and English,” he explains. “This is where it becomes a little complicated, it is that people are pronouncing it in Swedish; you can’t do it in America.
“If I go to Sweden, I say oh-bear,” he says (the note of the editor: this spelling does not do that justice as-spelling is almost closer to Oh-Bair, or Oh-Baiy, but with a fresh rolled r, sigh, just watch the small video below). “But G is a silent kind in Swedish. But then you see, how,” Forsberg “, you don’t say” Fors-Bear “(in SH.BA), you know what I mean?”
In other words, åberg understands your confusion.
“If I were to read the alphabet in Swedish, it’s completely different from English,” he says with a coercion. “Just just different.”
So we got it out of the way.
All that remained was the presentation of the Swedish star and then stood next to him as he began half an hour of clinical golf shots in a northern head in Florida, a rocket after another sent to the green green bottle only to the TPC Sawgrass-for the last heating episode.
Here are the 10 things I have learned from åberg. (Eleven, if you calculate the pronunciation.)
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Like many in favor I have talked to, åberg begins by hitting his 60 degree wedge. This was not the only 60 degree in his bag on the day we filmed; As he denies the truthfulness of a report That he always travels with 22 clubs, suggesting he lacked the context, he admits that “I travel with several different opportunities”.
It begins by hitting a few half marriages, feeling about “how the club interacts with the land”. He hits a blow trying to swing from the inside, hitting a draw and another out of the outside, hitting a cut. He flies a low and lofts another high, caliber, confusing, finding his feelings.
But unlike some other benefits, åberg does not pass straight into his handcuffs after a wedge or two.
“I like to touch all wedges,” he says. “I like to make sand wedge, I like to do the gap wedge.” He works his way in full swing now, choosing targets, increasing his heat, calling to his note clubs.
2. He likes to practice in the wind.
Åberg is blowing in this range, for which I point out that he has always scared me during heat. That is, it turns out, only one of the two dozen the way we identify who my superior is.
“Sometimes if you want to practice it’s almost good to have it in the wind,” he says. “Because if you can get out of that session by hitting it beautifully, you know things are looking very well. If I’m working on something and it’s up to the road, you may not get the same reaction. You feel good, but then the first shot is in the wind and you are like, ‘Ah, s-‘.
3. His player-caddie meetings begin preparation of pre-randy.
Two (of many) things that set him apart åberg are his commitment and his endurance. Case in point: In the days of the tour he will reach the course just over two hours before his time and meet with his Caddy Joe Skovron, “somewhere quiet,” he says.
They will review the day’s pin and winding places, a hole at the same time. And they will make a plan.
“I think it just simplifies things because when we get to the golf course, we just do what we said we would do and remove all these emotional decisions you make in a golf course,” Aberg says. “Because sometimes you’re like,” Ah, I just made two scams … “But no, boy, we said we would do it, let’s do it.”
4. He adheres to their plan.
This is directly related to no. 3, but after åberg and Skovron are placed in a plan, they try to adhere to it – eliminating disappointment, moment or emotion from the equation.
“It simplifies in my head because I can prepare for it here,” Aberg says, pointing his head. “So I know before I go to No. 7 that I will hit this ball with this club, with a lot of possibility-if something has not changed with bad smell. And I know if I go to No. 12 to TPC Sawgrass (par-4 run) I will hit the driver and I will go for it, I say I am more easily in the box. Do this, “I know that, so I’ll say”, so I’m actually.
Does it change the strategy in a row based on how it strikes it? Not really.
“I try not to do,” he says. “Because driving is one of my strengths, I like to use it as much as possible. And just because I miss some don’t change it.
“Maybe if you’re going down to the last couples of a tour … that’s another angle for her.”
5. He hits it truly TO
Åberg is almost sheep talking about his ball flight because it’s just … very straight.
“In the Golf Course I like to do a little of the two,” he says about hitting the venies and attracts. But they too don’t move too much. A pale will fly straight and fall to the right. A draw will fly straight and drop left. Bubba watson he is not.
“Just right so Straight, ”I notice after a fast -standing in the middle.
“Yes,” admits åberg, the way a mathematician can be after falling foam. “We’ve never really worked in one way or another, I feel like when I’m playing my best. I’m able to do little of what I want.”
6. When åberg BEN Work the ball, it is only through configuration.
“I do it all in my composition,” he says. “If I will play a straight draw of this stake, I will aim a little right and close my face and configuration. I can move (ball) back (in my attitude).” But he does not try to change anything in his swing or his launch pattern – nothing more than a small feeling.
“Of course moving the ball back to (my attitude) will start a little further,” he says. “I learned very quickly that is the easiest way for me to feel it, because in that way I am keeping the same movement the same, and I just change a little to contribute to making it look different. And, of course, if I want to make it on the other (hit a faint): move a little to my feet, open up and (fade).”
Typically if åberg lacks something because his placement was off, he says. This is another reason that is useful when your natural shot form is fair and clean. The golf is quite harsh; Life is better if you just need to tear down the simple things.
7. He loves the nine-Dritare training.
Nine -window training is familiar with many legendary ball strikers, Tiger Woods between them. If you photograph a network of striking area types, with a high draw that goes to the top left, a middle draw going to the middle left, the low draw going down the left-you get the idea.
“I think it’s the best thing ever,” says åberg.
“I like to do it with my 7-rally,” he adds, a true acceptance of Sicko. “Because it really is exposed as, hey must fly it, I have to hit it up …”
I jump inside.
“How do you hit a low wood with 7 wood?”
“Exactly,” he says.
8. He is fixed with 7-wood.
It’s not just for drills-woods Fairway Launch Highway are fashionable ways, and åberg is trendy.
At college in Windy West Texas åberg mostly hit 2-Irones. But now, from under a Ryder Cup hat, he draws a wood with 7 wood.
“(Two-Hekuri) was excellent, not so excellent in PAR-5,” he says. “While 7-Duri, when I tried it (at the end of 2023), I started playing with him even more. And some of the best shots I hit this year have been actually with 7-Dru because you can hit it so high, stop it and it’s great at Par-5.”
You can remember the 7 åberg wood stroke in Pinehurst in 2024 that fascinated Skovron in a meme.
It describes a high cut that hit the No. 11 in TPC Sawgrass, and another from the Olympics in Paris.
“I feel like I can hit him up and return,” he says, promoting a draw. “Or can I hit truly high and cut it. I can’t really do it with a 2-Herkuri. “
“I think so,” he says, as if he were surprised himself. “At least is getting there.”
9. He thinks that playing is still the best way to do better.
We are in the range, but still, åberg admits, he prefers to be in the course.
“I still like to play much more in my practice than a mouse that hits the balls all day,” he says.
Is it what he thinks is the best way to prepare for the tournament golf?
“I mean, I personally think so. Because ultimately you play Golf, you’re not shaking Golf, of course, that practice (range) is an important part of this; You have to have it down. But I think you are able to play golf really good even if your mechanics is a little far away, only from decision making, the shape of the shot, following a result. Happens what happens inside when I’m four-nine up to five or six in seven? There are all these different things that you cannot really simulate in the range. But because I played so much (as a kid), I’ve been able to treat it well enough, I think. “
I laid things on the Scheffler-Vs.-Bryson-two spectrum of the best good in the world, the first to play constantly and the second only during competition (or YouTube shoot).
“I think he talks to the player’s personality,” he says. “How your brain works, how it works in the best way. People are just different, that’s what is cute, there is no proper way or wrong way to do it.”
10. He’s a romantic golf.
Åberg’s favorite thing about golf?
“This is a massive question,” he says, before giving his wider answer to the day.
“It is so simple, but it’s so difficult. Loga logical, but it’s hard. And you’ll never end. You’ll never understand. ‘Oh, I’ve finished with that.’ This is what excites me. “
Dylan Dothier is an elderly writer for Golf Magazine/Golf.com. Native Williamstown, Mass. Dothier is a graduate of Williams College, where he graduated in English, and he is the author of 18 in Americawhich details last year as an 18-year-old living out of his car and playing a round of golf in every state.
