Aberg Bitterly Disappointed But Like Lowry He Earns Enormous Respect

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For a second occasion in recent week’s the golf world has witnessed a tournament leader self-destruct and lose victory with a couple of holes remaining.

Three weeks ago it was Ireland’s Shane Lowry comfortably in front with just three holes to play at PGA National.

The super-talented Ludvig Aberg headed into the final round of the Players Championship leading by two shots and looking, as defending champ Rory McIlroy described of the champion Swede, as unflappable.

Aberg was unflappable in winning European Ryder Cup team but no-one could have predicted that with just nine holes to play, it would all come undone for the 2-year-old now Ponte Vedra resident.

Nor did Adberg’s parents who were among a big gathering supporting their son out in the final group of the $25m PGA Tour flagship event.

Sadly, the towering Swede began to self-destruct when he found water guarding the green at the 11th in taking bogey while there was the terribly painful sight of Aberg finding water off the tee at the next ahead of walking off with a double-bogey ‘6’.

From two shots clear at the start of the day, Aberg had fallen to two behind and struggling at 10-under but still  time and holes to rescue his slide.  Though the golfing gods were against him as putt after putt refused to drop.  He bogeyed 15 and by then Aberg was no longer standing tall.

Aberg had teed-off in the last group of the day though with  a handful of holes to play, it was the penultimate group of Cameron Young and Matt Fitzpatrick attracting TV coverage.

The Swede eventually posted a closing 76 to eventually share fifth place at nine-under.

Aberg could have headed straight to the locker-room but to his enormous credit, and has Lowry had chosen at the Cognizant Classic, Aberg also and bravely shared his disappointment with the media including live NBC TV coverage, PGA Tour radio and the written media.

“Yeah, obviously really disappointed,“ he said as the official prize-giving was getting underway.

“I felt like I was striking it okay early on. Got away with a few things, especially No. 4, kind of left miss.

“Overall pleased with the week. Obviously today the back nine was not good, but that’s the way it goes sometimes.

“I felt that it was getting gaway from me quick there. Yeah, it was just poor swings. I felt like I’ve had that sort of 7-wood right miss a few times this week, on No. 4 especially twice, and it came up on 11 as well.

“Then tried to press a little bit on 12, hitting driver, where sometimes you can play 3-wood a little short of that bunker.

“Yeah, obviously really disappointed. I would have loved to be standing where Cameron is standing right now. But overall I still felt like I saw some nice things in my game this week.

“I think obviously the biggest thing that I take away is that I feel like I’m playing nice golf. I’m playing golf to the point where I feel like I can contend in big tournaments. Obviously a good finish last week and still a top-5 finish this week. Overall I feel like I’m playing good golf, which is really nice. It’s nice to see on a hard golf course last week, hard golf course this week. That makes me excited.

“Of course, I would have loved a different back nine outcome today, but looking at the grand scheme of things, I’m pleased with my golf game“.

Well said Ludwig.



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