Ryder Cup star 'itching' to return following 'weird' injury lay off after surgery

Ludvig Aberg has been retired of enactment since the Tour Championship astatine East Lake successful August, but the Swedish prima volition beryllium backmost defending his rubric astatine the RSM Classic this week

Ludvig Aberg has revealed his excitement to beryllium backmost retired competing connected the PGA Tour, aft the Swede spent clip connected the sidelines following country to his knee.

Aberg is backmost astatine the RSM Classic to support his title, a twelvemonth connected from his breakthrough victory. It comes connected the backmost of a three-month layoff distant from enactment aft the youngster underwent country connected a genu problem. The wounded began backmost successful April, earlier helium yet received attraction pursuing the extremity of the FedEx Cup playoffs.

The PGA Tour's last lawsuit of the run volition instrumentality spot astatine the RSM this week, and for Aberg, some the accidental to support the crown arsenic good arsenic making a long-awaited instrumentality is an breathtaking prospect.

"Yeah, I've had immoderate clip off, it's been rather nice," helium told reporters. "I had country connected my knee, truthful I had astir 4 weeks disconnected from golf. The archetypal 2 weeks I did not miss it astatine all, I'm not gonna lie, but past mates of weeks it's been itching successful my fingers rather a bit. So it's been bully to get backmost into practicing, playing a batch much astatine home.

"Now really bought a location arsenic well, benignant of getting aged and getting a batch of grownup points successful that space. It's bully to beryllium backmost playing tournaments again. You miss it erstwhile you're not retired here."

Aberg sported a genu brace passim the campaign, aft the occupation flared up astatine assorted points passim the year. Speaking connected the determination to yet acquisition surgery, helium added: "I felt aboriginal successful the twelvemonth this indispensable person been determination astir April, May, thing similar that it started to enactment up a small bit. I didn't truly cognize what it was. We got it checked retired and past I inactive felt fine, truthful it didn't hinder maine successful presumption of my grooming oregon my play.

"So past aft consulting with a fewer doctors, I know, oregon I knew that I needed to person country astatine immoderate point, but I besides felt similar I could past passim the season, evidently playing done the Playoffs, and past aft the Playoffs was a bully clip to benignant of woody with it and get it done."

Aged conscionable 22, having enjoyed a singular emergence since turning nonrecreational past summer, Aberg admitted being sidelined for the archetypal was a 'weird' feeling. No, that was the archetypal clip [having surgery]. It was the archetypal clip I hadn't been capable to play play from that regard," helium claimed.

"So it was a small spot weird. Didn't truly cognize however to grip it. UltimatelyI felt similar I made the close prime successful presumption of the timing and however we handled it. If I were to doit again, I would bash the aforesaid thing."