Aberg has made a habit of stunning fans. Last summer, he achieved his first win on the DP World Tour at the Omega Masters just four months after making the jump from college into the professional ranks and that form earned him a call-up into Luke Donald’s Ryder Cup team.
‘The perfect physique to play this game’
Aberg then recorded his first PGA Tour win, at the Sanderson Championship, a week after Europe’s victory in Rome. After entering the world’s top ten, it will be no surprise if Aberg becomes the first since Fuzzy Zoeller in 1979 to prevail on his Augusta bow.
“He’s my dark horse,” said former Ryder Cup captain and TV analyst Curtis Strange. “In the last week some of my researchers at ESPN asked how he can be a dark horse? I replied, ‘Well, he’s never played in a major before’. He’s only 24. He’s burst onto the scene so quickly.
“He dominated the college scene. He’s dominated whenever he’s played throughout his whole life, which is very short. He has a swing to envy. He has the size. Looks like the perfect physique to play this game.
“I think the world of his game, and we have a couple of guys like that now on tour. He’s a rookie, but he certainly could play well and win”
Aberg is nine off the Akshay Bhatia’s lead in Texas, but there are only four players between him and the American pacesetter, who has a four-shot advantage over countryman Denny McCarthy. Rory McIlroy is 10 behind Bhatia following a 72.
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