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Battle Position for Åberg – Fighting for the Giant Sum

Ludvig Åberg shows top form ahead of the final tournament on the PGA tour. The Swede came second in the second playoff tournament in Colorado, and has a good position ahead of this week's decisive event – where the winner will receive 200 million kronor. Alex Norén, on the other hand, played himself out of contention during the final round.

» Updated: August 26 2024

» Published: August 25 2024

Battle Position for Åberg – Fighting for the Giant Sum
Photo: Matt York/AP/TT

For the second day in a row, the Swedes Ludvig Åberg and Alex Norén played in the same ball. Before the final round, they were in a shared third place, and had a stroke advantage. But neither of them took advantage of it.

Åberg performed strongest, and eventually finished in a shared second place at Castle Pines in Colorado.

Åberg went through the final round in 71 strokes and finished with a total of eleven under par, the same as American Sam Burns and Australian Adam Scott. American Keegan Bradley won with twelve under par.

A placement that means he climbs from his seventh place in the overall standings to enter the tour final at East Lake in Atlanta as fifth.

He thus starts the competition five strokes behind overall leader Scottie Scheffler. The winner of the final tournament receives a total of 200 million kronor.

I've been looking forward to the playoffs for a long time. If you told me at the beginning of the year that I would be fifth in the Tour Championship, I would have been very pleased. So it's been great, says Åberg.

But for Alex Norén, the season is over. The Swede fell on the leaderboard during the final day, and finished in a shared ninth place.

The 42-year-old needed a top placement to get within the top 30 in the overall standings. And it looked like it was going to work out. But after three closing bogeys and a 75-round for the day, he dropped to a 37th place in the overall standings.

The tour final begins as early as Thursday, where the 30 best in the overall standings get to play.

In the final tour final in Atlanta, the overall standings for the entire season are used to give the top players an advantage over the rest of the starting field. The leader starts the tournament at 10 strokes under par. The second place starts at –8, the third at –7, the fourth at –6, and the fifth at –5. Players ranked 6–10 start the tour final at –4 – and so on. Players ranked 26–30 start at par.

Previous winners:

2023: Viktor Hovland, Norway.

2022: Rory McIlroy, Northern Ireland.

2021: Patrick Cantlay, USA.

2020: Dustin Johnson, USA.

2019: Rory McIlroy, Northern Ireland.

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