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Ludvig Aberg, who is currently a senior at Texas Tech University, was announced Monday as the winner of the 2023 Ben Hogan Award to the top collegiate golfer in the United States. Aberg thus repeated his 2022 award, tying with current World No. 2 Jon Rahm as the only player to have received the honor twice.
The Ben Hogan Award has been presented by the Golf Coaches Association of America since 1990, which chooses from among three final candidates. Ludvig Aberg was joined on the ballot by Michael Thorbjornsen of Stanford University and Gordon Sargent of Vanderbilt University.
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As is traditional, the award was announced from the Colonial Country Club in Fort Worth, Texas, home of this ceremony for more than 20 years. This is the same facility that, starting Thursday, will host the PGA Tour's Charles Schwab Challenge.
In its 30-plus years history, the Ben Hogan Award has been presented to players who have gone on to have outstanding performances in golf, both professionally and at the amateur level.
Among the stars who have been deserving of this recognition, in addition to the aforementioned Jon Rahm, are the winner of eight PGA Tour tournaments and eighth on the world list, Patrick Cantlay, and the recently placed T2 in the 2023 PGA Championship, Viktor Hovland.
Ludvig Aberg's Golf Career
Ludvig Aberg, 23, is from Eslov, Sweden. He has been associated with golf since a very young age. As a pre-collegiate, he was already the top-ranked player for his country in the World Amateur Golf Ranking (WAGR) and a member of the national team. He also achieved a seventh-place finish at the Junior Players Championship at TPC Sawgrass and sixth at the PING Invitational at Karsten Creek.
He began his collegiate golf career in the 2019-20 season and from the very beginning, he had outstanding results. He climbed up the amateur rankings and helped Texas Tech qualify for the Big 12 Match Play Tournament.
By his sophomore season, he was already one of the team's stars. He won the Jones Invitational, The Prestige, and Thunderbird Collegiate tournaments. In addition, he finished fourth at the Big 12 Championship, was 10th at the Colonial Collegiate, and eighth at the NCAA Championship. That year he placed third at the WAGR and earned All-America honors.
As a junior, he won the Big 12 singles tournament, while playing in all 12 tournaments the Texas Tech team participated in, leading them to the Elite 8 for the third time in their history. That season he posted his personal score best of 63 strokes at the Cabo Collegiate Invitational and won his first Ben Hogan Award.
In his senior season (which is yet to end), Ludvig Aberg helped his team win the Big 12 Match Play and finish runner-up at the Ben Hogan Collegiate Invite. He is currently ranked No. 1 in the WAGR and also No. 1 in the PGA Tour U Rankings.
In his collegiate golf career, Ludvig Aberg has played 38 tournaments, of which he has won 8. His average score is 70.19 and out of 118 rounds played, he has finished par or better in 77.
