You’ll have to forgive Ludvig Aberg for not keeping up on the happenings in professional golf during his offseason. The young Swede was a tad pre-occupied after undergoing knee surgery following the Tour Championship, which forced him to put the clubs away for four weeks to heal up.
“It’s been quite nice,” Aberg said on Tuesday at the RSM Classic, where he is the defending champion. “I had surgery on my knee, so I had about four weeks off from golf. The first two weeks I did not miss it at all, I’m not gonna lie, but last couple of weeks it’s been itching in my fingers quite a bit. So it’s been nice to get back into practicing, playing a lot more at home.”
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Aberg’s offseason activities also included buying a home, which, as anyone who has ever done it knows, is a all-consuming process. Between that and getting his knee back to full health, the last thing on his mind was golf news.
But the golf news that broke semi-recently wasn’t just any old golf news. It was news that can and will affect livelihoods on the PGA Tour starting in 2026. The proposed changes—smaller fields, fewer tour cards, adjustments to the FedExCup points, etc.—were approved by the PGA Tour Policy Board on Monday at the RSM Classic. Aberg, who is in Sea Island this week, had absolutely no clue that was happening.
Here’s his exchange with Golf Digest’s own Shane Ryan:
Ludvig, can I get your thoughts on the PGA TOUR changes in format that went through yesterday?
LUDVIG ABERG: I didn’t know that.
Really?
ABERG: No, I didn’t know. What was that?
So there’s going to be smaller field sizes, so these were proposals that happened in late October that went through yesterday.
ABERG: OK.
Q. Smaller field sizes, fewer Tour cards, fewer entries when the KFT Tour, et cetera. This is news to you?
ABERG: This is actually news to me, I’m sorry, I did not know that.
Ahh, to be this blissfully unaware. On one hand, you might say that Aberg probably should pay a little more attention. On another hand, though, are the changes really going to affect a player of his caliber? Obviously, you could argue they will actually help him. We’re looking at a potential future World No. 1 here. He’ll be in every big event and will have his tour card for the forseeable future. Head down, keep grinding. And also make sure to pay that mortgage on time.Â
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This article was originally published on golfdigest.com
