Ludvig Aberg Secures Tour Card Through PGA Tour University Rankings

Ludvig Aberg of Texas Tech finished the 2022-2023 season in the No. 1 spot on the PGA Tour University rankings.

As the stroke play portion of the NCAA D-I National Championship wrapped up on Monday evening at Grayhawk Golf Club, the year-long race for the No. 1 spot on the PGA Tour University rankings was finally decided—and the result came as no surprise. 

Ludvig Aberg, the standout Texas Tech senior who hails from Sweden, finished at the top of the standings. This year, those rankings will offer a fast track onto the PGA Tour for the first time. 

Aberg, who racked up eight individual titles in his four years of collegiate golf, will become a PGA Tour member for the 2023 and 2024 seasons, and he’ll get the unique chance to lock up status for years to come. 

This season Aberg won four times individually and posted nine top-10 finishes with a 68.46 scoring average. 

“He really set a standard for this team that I never thought would be set,” said Texas Tech coach Greg Sands. “He’s a generational type of talent, to win the Ben Hogan award, win the Big 12 Championship in the fashion he did, back-to-back. He’s just as good of a person as he is a player, and I think that’s what really makes him special and stands out more than the next guy.”

History for Ludvig Aberg!
 
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— PGA TOUR University (@PGATOURU) May 30, 2023

Aberg has already teed it up in several PGA Tour and DP World Tour events where he has demonstrated immense promise as a future star of the professional game. 

At the Arnold Palmer Invitational Aberg made the cut and posted a T24 finish. He would have taken home $185,833 if it weren’t for his amateur status. Playing as a sponsor exemption at the DP World Tour’s Dubai Dessert Classic, Aberg held a share of the first-round lead at 7 under and ultimately finished in a tie for 70th after making the cut. 

Aberg also became just the second player to win the Ben Hogan award—which is given to the top amateur golfer in the country—in back-to-back years. The only other player to accomplish such a feat was Jon Rahm, the 2023 Masters champion. 

“Being around these guys and these coaches every day for the last couple of years has been incredible, and I’m super fortunate to have been a part of this team,” Aberg said after he finished T29 in the stroke play portion of the NCAA Championship. 

Fred Biondi of the University of Florida took home the individual title and will receive an invitation to the 2024 Masters.