THE AMATEUR CHAMPIONSHIP

June 13, 2022

Ludvig Aberg

Quick Quotes

Q. 7-under to start your campaign here at The Amateur Championship. You must be very pleased?

LUDVIG ABERG: It was a fun day. I was actually expecting the wind to be a little bit more today but it was fun. It's a nice track out here at St. Annes and looking forwards to Lytham tomorrow.

Q. Highlight was the eagle on 18. Can you talk us through that?

LUDVIG ABERG: Yeah, 18 is a reachable par 5 today. So I ended up flighting my second shot a little bit right of the green but caught a pretty good lie and ended up chipping that in. That was a nice bonus to the day, probably around 20, 25 yards, something like that.

Q. A bit of excitement when you saw that one go?

LUDVIG ABERG: Oh yeah, for sure, it's nice to end on a good note and especially chipping in like that yeah.

Q. Even nicer that we caught it on camera, so are you looking forward to watching that highlight?

LUDVIG ABERG: Yeah, I'll try to watch it later, yeah.

Q. You're highest-ranked player in the field this week. Does that bring any pressure coming into a championship like that?

LUDVIG ABERG: I think it is what you say it's going to be. I feel like I've been worked hard to get to where I am and it's more of a testament to me doing some good stuff. Yeah, people will obviously expect to you play well and luckily I did today.

Q. Now, what's the goal from here for the rest of the week?

LUDVIG ABERG: First and foremost, you always want to get through the first two rounds of stroke play and then in match play, everything can happen, especially in links golf. I tried to play this last year and wasn't able to and tried to play the year before and wasn't able to. So my first time here since 2019, so excited to keep the week going and play more links golf.

Q. The goal is to qualify through the first two rounds. Posting a nice score today, does that take some of the pressure off heading to Lytham tomorrow?

LUDVIG ABERG: Oh, sure, Lytham is such a hard course, that any time you can give yourself a little bit of an advantage coming into that round tomorrow afternoon is going to be helpful. Really happy where I am right now and hopefully keep it going.

Q. You're obviously part of the Swedish golf team and you have a legend of Swedish golf joining you guys, Peter Hanson. What's it like having him out there cheering you on and mentoring you?

LUDVIG ABERG: It's great. Peter has had such a long and successful career on the tours, and his experiences together with coaching, it's just going to be great for us players. He's sitting on a whole lot of knowledge that we don't know about, so I'm really excited about getting to know him better.

Q. Is there anything in particular that you're hoping to pick his brains about or trying to learn from him?

LUDVIG ABERG: I think there's a lot. I have one more year left in amateur golf, so just the whole kind of transitioning to pro golf. There's always some nuggets that you can catch up on, whether it's travel, practice, play tournament golf courses. So it will be fun.