Texas Tech product Ludvig Aberg to have knee surgery this week, per report

The 24-year-old Swedish golfing sensation Ludvig Aberg is potentially hitting his first bump in the road as a professional.
Golf Channel’s Todd Lewis posted on Twitter/X that Aberg, who competed for Texas Tech while in college, would be undergoing arthroscopic surgery on his left knee this week in order to repair a torn meniscus that has been reportedly bothering him since the spring.
This week Ludvig Aberg will have arthroscopic surgery to repair a torn meniscus in his left knee that has bothered him since Spring. Ludvig should be able to hit balls 3-4 weeks after the procedure. Likely to play again in 2024 on a limited schedule.
The news of Aberg’s operation comes just days after his 16th-place finish at the Tour Championship and the conclusion of the PGA Tour’s FedEx Cup Playoffs, which acts as the defacto end of the season for many of golf’s best.
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Considering that the knee has been bothering Aberg since spring, he’s not shown signs of it, as 2024 was a breakthrough year for the Swede. In his major championship debut at the Masters, Aberg finished alone in second place, only getting beaten by world no. 1 golfer and Highland Park grad Scottie Scheffler. To add to the breakout performance, Aberg led the U.S. Open in June through the first two rounds and ultimately finished in a tie for 12th place.
Aberg had a massively dominant couple of seasons while in Lubbock before joining the PGA Tour. As a senior, he swept the Jack Nicklaus Award, the Fred Haskins Award and the Ben Hogan Award. He joined John Rahm as the only player to repeat as the winner of the Ben Hogan Award. He won a program-record eight times while at Texas Tech, and became the first golfer to win back-to-back Big 12 Conference Championship titles in both 2022 and 2023.
In January of 2024, Aberg began his season at The Sentry in Lahaina, Hawaii. If he aims to be back in Hawaii for the 2025 tournament, he would have four months to recover. If Aberg needs to look to fellow elite golfers for a timeline of returning to action, Brooks Koepka returned to tournament play in 2021 just two months after undergoing arthroscopic surgery on his right knee. In 2008 Tiger Woods played in the U.S. Open two months removed from his own arthroscopic knee surgery as well.
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