Ludvig Åberg at The Players: Ryder Cup experience can help challenge for debut win at TPC Sawgrass | Golf News

Ludvig Åberg believes the stress of taking part in in a Ryder Cup can encourage him to problem for extra success when he makes his debut at The Gamers this week, stay on Sky Sports activities.

Åberg was nonetheless in school when Scottie Scheffler gained The Gamers a yr in the past, having solely turned skilled in June, however arrives at this yr’s contest as a severe contender for a debut victory at TPC Sawgrass.

The 24-year-old gained two of his 4 matches in Europe’s 16.5-11.5 Ryder Cup victory in Rome, a month on from his breakthrough DP World Tour title on the Omega European Masters, with Åberg now trying to construct on his sturdy begin to his PGA Tour profession.

“If I can carry out below these sorts of circumstances that taking part in within the Ryder Cup current, which may be very, very totally different from some other event, then I really feel like it is going to assist me going ahead,” Åberg advised Sky Sports activities forward of The Gamers.

“I really feel like I dealt with that [pressure and atmosphere] fairly effectively. It was the primary time that I acquired to expertise lots of these issues and hang around with these guys. And after that it sort of turns into simpler, I suppose.”

Åberg backed up his Ryder Cup glory by claiming a maiden PGA Tour victory on the RSM Traditional final November, whereas a runner-up end on the weather-affected AT&T Pebble Seaside Professional-Am final month has moved him contained in the world’s prime 10.

He additionally completed contained in the top-10 on the Farmers Insurance coverage Open and added a top-20 on the Genesis Invitational, with Åberg getting into The Gamers off the again of ending the week on degree par on the Arnold Palmer Invitational.

“There is a bunch of issues you may all the time enhance on,” Åberg added, taking part in down his speedy stand up the rankings. “I might wish to assume that I am swinging it fairly impartial, which implies that I can form it each methods.

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“I do know that I’ve performed my finest golf each time I do this, however there’s the consistency, the trajectories, all these issues that you would be able to all the time get slightly bit higher at.”

Åberg: I am going to birdie seventeenth once more!

Åberg is amongst 23 gamers scheduled to make their debut this week – together with rookie PGA Tour winners Matthieu Pavon and Nick Dunlap – and is totally conscious of the challenges that TPC Sawgrass, together with its iconic seventeenth gap, gives.

“It [TPC Sawgrass] is such a cool place and I’ve heard lots of tales,” Åberg mentioned. “I really performed the Junior Gamers Championship a few years in the past, so I’ve performed the course earlier than.

“It is perhaps in slightly bit totally different situation, however that was actually cool. I bear in mind I birdied it [17th] one time and I am going to strive to do this once more subsequent time I’m going there.

“I have never talked to the [PGA Tour] guys a lot concerning the specifics of the golf course, however clearly it is a shot shaping golf course. It is troublesome, but it surely was the identical at Bay Hill, so I believe it is good to have these weeks back-to-back and get again into event golf.”

Åberg was chatting with Sky Sports activities forward of The Gamers, with the complete interview launched as a part of a particular preview podcast on Tuesday March 12. Obtain and hearken to the newest Sky Sports activities Golf podcast and do not forget to subscribe by way of Spotify, Spreaker or Apple Podcasts!

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