Ludvig Aberg and Brian Campbell don't have much in common except winning on the PGA Tour. Aberg is so good he was top 10 in the world just nine months after leaving college.

LA JOLLA, Calif. — The PGA Tour’s West Coast swing has come to a close. We’re three signature events into the season with the Players Championship only a month away. After an awesome finish Sunday as Ludvig Åberg birdied four of the final six holes to win at Torrey Pines, it’s a good time to evaluate player stocks two months into the season.

Sunday of the WM Phoenix Open averaged 2.9 million, up 21% from 2024. The week before, the final round of the AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am attracted 3.3 million viewers for Rory McIlroy’s victory, which was the highest-rated non-major until the Genesis.

There is something eerie about the spot where Ludvig Åberg made his birdie putt from that won him the 2025 Genesis Invitational. It’s a familiar place to golf fans everywhere, to those old enough to remember the 2008 U.

One week the PGA Tour winner was Ludvig Aberg, a Swede so supremely talented that he played in a Ryder Cup before his first major, entered the top 10 in