Aberg added a 69 to his opening 66 at Pinehurst to finish five under par, a shot ahead of Belgium’s Thomas Detry and the American pair of Bryson DeChambeau and Patrick Cantlay. Rory McIlroy, Tony Finau and Matthieu Pavon lie two shots off the lead on three under, Pavon dropping shots on his last two holes on Friday. The last player to win the US Open on their tournament debut was amateur Francis Ouimet in 1913, but Aberg repeating that feat would come as no great surprise following an extraordinary start to his professional career.
66-69. Ludvig Åberg 🇸🇪 is the clubhouse leader in the 124th U.S.
Open. Live coverage of Round 2 continues on @peacock . pic.
twitter.com/VmlkvCSZ3q — U.S.
Open (@usopengolf) June 14, 2024 Aberg joined the paid ranks in June 2023 but quickly won on the DP World Tour, helped Europe regain the Ryder Cup in Rome – including a record 9&7 win with Viktor Hovland over Scottie Scheffler and Brooks Koepka – and also tasted victory on the PGA Tour before the end of the season. Such performances earned the 24-year-old a major debut at the Masters and he pushed Scheffler all the way in April before the world number one pulled away to claim a second green jacket at Augusta National. “I think a US Open is supposed to be hard,” Aberg said.
“It’s supposed to be tricky and it’s supposed to challenge any aspect of your game and I feel like it’s really doing that. “But I’m super fortunate with the way that things have turned out over th.
