Winner Takes All as Prodominates in Closing!
Ludvig Åberg and Michael Thorbjornsen are local to the Ponte Vedra Beach and wider Jacksonville area, playing TPC Sawgrass throughout the year – sometimes together. On Sunday at the 2026 Players Championship, they'll be the final pairing to tee off as both players look for the biggest win of their career so far.
Ludvig Åberg thinks about winning a lot. On Sunday, the two-time PGA Tour winner and Ryder Cupper has the chance to win the biggest title of his career to date at the 2026 Players Championship, where he has a three-shot lead. It's the largest 54-hole lead at The Players since 2018, when Webb Simpson was seven shots ahead and held on to win by four.
The 26-year-old Swede doesn't shy away from the what ifs – he embraces them. While some might avoid thinking about the next round or what a win like The Players would do for one's career, he thinks about what it would look like, what it would feel like. He's done that since his college days at Texas Tech.
"I think I'm trying to embrace it," Åberg said Saturday in his post-round press conference. "I'm trying to be okay with all those things that come with it, which is why we play golf. "We spend so much time practicing, playing, training, preparing, so why wouldn't we think of what it would actually mean to win.
So, naturally, that's what I'm going to do tonight. But does it change anything for me tomorrow? I don't think so.
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