Ranking the top 10 players at the Masters: #06 – Ludvig Åberg

In the Masters Week we are the 10 players in the Butler cabin next to Scottie Scheffler and the leading amateur on Sunday evening.

06. Ludvig Åberg

Not since Fuzzy Zoeller in 1979 a rookie won the champions, but only a few, if at all, have come closer to Ludvig Åberg in the following 45 years.

Ok, Scottie Scheffler in the end may have won four, but the Swede had briefly held the lead in the last round and only in the 11th double bogey Scheffler finally put the daylight between himself and the man, who was a student 10 months ago.

He is not the first and he will certainly not be the last to be the victim in the first stage of the Amen corner, but what he showed in the previous 64 holes is more than enough evidence to believe that this year he is more able to do better.

When you drive it for a long time and drive it, it is a great combination everywhere, and the repeating nature of its golf swing means that catastrophes like the 11th hole in the past year are generally only a few and very far apart.

In the meantime, he got a big PGA tour victory at the Genesis Invitational in Torrey Pines, but since then it has cooled down a little and has completed T22 at the Arnold Palmer Invitational and missing cuts at the Player Championship and only this week at the Valero Texas Open.

But there are only a few players who believe that they are perfect for Augusta nationally, both in the talent and in the temperament and Åberg is one of them.

His victory at Torrey Pines was not on an extremely good week with the putter, neither on his effortless strength from the tee, nor its accuracy and distance control with the iron, it was a combination of everyone and that made him such a dangerous one.

While the bookmakers, the media and many occasional fans expect this to turn into an Mcilroy Versus shootout in Mcilroy, Åberg’s is a name that neither the leading candidates want to hang on the top of the loading board.

It is a frequent Brean that every visit to Augusta National teaches them something new, so that the leading lights will come to the Masters Week at this year’s Masters that improves an equally enormous improvement in knowledge compared to that of 2024.

He is a big master in waiting, so much was obvious before he signed his first professional contract. It’s just a question of where and when. And if the performance of last year is something in the debut, a green jacket could be the one that opens the locks.