Ludvig Åberg taught me 10 lessons in 33 minutes. Here they are

Before we started – and before I had to say it, I needed some clarification from Ludvig Åberg in front of the camera.

How do you speak out your last name?

“I always say people,” Oh-Mountain “is the best way to say it,” he says. “I don’t know where the ‘OH-Bahn’ or the ‘OH-BURGE’ comes from (said I would rhyme with ‘cleansing’). I don’t know where it comes from.”

So how is it He Say it?

“It’s different in Swedish and English,” he explains. “It becomes a little difficult here that people pronounce it in Swedish. You can’t do that in America.

“When I go to Sweden, I say OH-BAR,” he says (note from the editor: This spelling will not be quite just-minded on OH-BAIR or OH-BAIY, but with a cool roll-R, sigh, sigh, just watch the small video below). “But the G is silent in Swedish. But then you look at how ‘Forsberg’, you don’t say ‘Fors-Bear’ (in the USA), I know what I mean?”

In other words, Åberg understands her confusion.

“If I read the alphabet in Swedish, it’s completely different than English,” he says with a shrug. “It’s just different.”

So we cleared it out of the way.

Everything that was left was to present the Swedish star and then stand next to him when he started a headwind in North Florida for half an hour, one rocket after another on the bottle-green tour profi-side reach at TPC Sawgrass-for the last episode of Warming Up.

Here are 10 things that I learned from Åberg. (Eleven if you count the pronunciation.)

Or here is the video if you want it directly from the source yourself:

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1. Åberg “touches each wedge” in one warming up.

Like many professionals I talked to, Åberg begins with his 60-degree wedge. This was not the only 60 degree in his bag on the day we shot; While he denies the correctness of a report that he always travels with 22 clubs, which indicates that he had no context, he admits that “I travel with many different options”.

He starts to meet a few half -swinging and to get a feeling that “the club interacts with the floor”. He hits a shot that tries to vibrate from the inside, to meet a draw and one outside and hit a cut. He flies a low and loft the next high, calibrate, play around and find his feelings.

But in contrast to some other professionals, Åberg does not jump directly to his iron after one or two wedges.

“I like touching all wedges,” he says. “I like to make sand wedge, I like to do gaps.” He is now working in complete swings, selects goals, increases its warming up and chooses his goal clubs.

2. He likes to practice in the wind.

In this area, Åberg shoots into the wind, which I always intimidated during the warming. This means that it turns out that only one of about two dozen options recognize which he is my supervisor.

“Sometimes when they want to practice, it’s almost nice to have it in the wind,” he says. “Because if you can get out of this session when you meet you well, you know that things look pretty good. If I work on something and it is in front of the wind, you may not get the same feedback. You feel great, but then this first discount is in the wind and you are like ‘Ah, S -.’

3. His player caddie meetings start before preparation.

Two (by many) things that Åberg exit are his commitment and consistency. A typical example: On tournament days, he will arrive at the course a little more than two hours before his discount time and meet with his Caddy Joe Skovron, “calm somewhere,” he says.

You will check the PIN locations and the wind direction of the day, one hole, each. And you will make a plan.

“I think it only simplifies things, because when we come to the golf course, we just do what we said we would do it and it takes all these emotional decisions that they make on a golf course,” says Aberg. “Because sometimes you made two bogeys … ‘But no, age, we said we would do that, let us do it.”

4. He stays on her plan.

This is in direct connection with No. 3, but as soon as Åberg and Skovron have chosen a plan, try to stick to it – and remove frustration, dynamics or emotions from the equation.

“It simplifies in my head because I can prepare for it here,” says Aberg, pointing on his head. “So I know, before I come No. 7, that I will hit this club with this club-unless there has been a little wind. And I know if I come to 12th place at TPC Sawgrass (the mobile par-4) (the mobile par-4).

Does he change the strategy based on how it does? Not really.

“I’m not trying it,” he says. “Because driving is one of my strengths, I like to use them as much as possible. And just because I miss a few, that doesn’t really change.

“Maybe if you get down the last few holes of a tournament … that’s a different angle.”

5. He beats it Really straight.

Åberg is almost embarrassed and talks about his ball flight because it is only … very straight.

“I like to do a little of both on the golf course,” he says about beating and pulling. But even these don’t move much. A fading flies straight and falls to the right. A tie is flying straight and falls to the left. He is not Bubba Watson.

“It’s just So Right, ”I notice after a fast ball in the middle.

“Yes,” admits Åberg, how a mathematician could do after taking off his chalk. “We have never really worked in this way, I have the feeling that when I play my best, I can do a little bit of what I want.”

6. If Åberg does Work the ball, it is only through setup.

“I’m doing everything in my setup,” he says. “If I will play a draw on the right in this pen, I aim a bit right and close the face and my setup. I could (the ball) back (in my posture).” But he doesn’t try to change something in his swing or in his release pattern – nothing more than a little feeling.

“Obviously the ball is moved back to (my posture), it will start a little further to the right,” he says. “I learned pretty quickly that this is the easiest way for me to feel it, because so I keep the big movement the same and only change a little in the input to make it look different. And then obviously the opposite if I want to do it in the other direction): move it a little in my feet, open the attitude and it should (amazed) a little in my feet.”

Usually, if Åberg misses something because his setup was switched off, he says. This is another reason why it is helpful when your natural shot is straight and pure. Golf is hard enough; Life is better if you just have to optimize the simple stuff.

7. He loves the nine Window exercise.

The Drill by Neun-Window is popular because many legendary ballstaders, Tiger Woods, are among them. If you imagine a kind of strike zone grille, with a high draw at the top left, a medium-sized draw that goes medium-sized left, low train to the left.

“I think it’s the best of all time,” says Åberg.

“I like to do it with my 7-wood,” he adds, a real Sicko confession. “Because it really goes out, hey, I have to fly it, I have to hit it up …”

I jump into it.

“How do you make a low 7 wood?”

“Exactly,” he says.

8. It is obsessed with 7-wood.

It is not only for exercises-high-mood-fairway woods a lot is fashionable, and Åberg is trendy.

In college in Windy West Texas Åberg, 2-irons mostly met. But now he pulls a 7-wood under a Ryder Cup lead.

“(Two-iron) was great of tea, not so big in Par-5S,” he says. “While the 7-wood, when I tried it (at the end of 2023), I played more with it. And some of the best shots I took this year were actually with 7-wood because you can beat them so high, it is great to stop it and it is great in Par-5s.”

Perhaps you remember the 7-wood ÜM-HIT in Pinehurst in 2024, which amazed Skovron in a mem.