Åberg: "It feels almost like full circle"

Ludvig Åberg brought it up himself at a press conference this week ahead of his Olympic Games debut:

It's been two years since I played here. I was still an amateur, playing for the national team and Jonnie Eriksson was the captain. He's also here now, says Åberg.

It feels almost like "full circle".

Going for the stars

Åberg was the anchor in the Swedish team that finished second in the amateur World Championship at Le Golf National.

Back then, he was very promising but far from a celebrity in Swedish sports.

Now, after a dreamlike first professional year, he's one of the players most talked about in the golf world.

And one of the favorites in the Olympic Games, where he'll play with superstars Scottie Scheffler and Rory McIlroy in Thursday's opening round.

Then (2022) we actually said that it's clear he would play in the amateur World Championship, because in two years it's the Olympic Games here and it's not impossible that he'll be there then. We joked about it, anyway, says Jonnie Eriksson.

Wanted to become even better

Could you believe it would go so fast for him?

Not that fast. But we have good statistics on how good he is in different parts of the game. We knew that if we put him on the PGA tour, he would land between 50th and 80th place. But he wanted to become even better, because when he turned pro, he wanted to be able to compete among the best.

Eriksson has worked closely with the now 24-year-old Åberg since he was 18.