Ludvig Aberg changes caddie. The Grant Thornton Invitational was the last tournament he played with Jack Clarke, the person who has accompanied him since he turned professional in June of this year at the RBC Canadian Open.
The farewell could not have been more special. Aberg played his last tournament with Clarke, pairing with Madelene Sagstrom, curiously Clarke’s fiancée. In fact, it was Sagstrom herself, champion of the Solheim Cup at Finca Cortesín last September, who confirmed that last week would be Clarke’s last carrying Aberg’s bag and that he did not plan to continue as a caddie.
The joint trajectory of Aberg and Clarke has been extraordinary. In five months they have won two tournaments (Omega European Masters on the DP World Tour and RSM Classic on the PGA Tour), they have played another playoff at the Sanderson Farms and they have won the Ryder Cup with Europe. Watch out for the record…
As you can imagine, Aberg’s bag is currently one of the most coveted in the world, so it has really been fought over. Finally, as Golf Channel advances, the chosen one to replace Clarke is a classic of the PGA Tour with more than 50 Majors under his belt and more than one Ryder Cup. It is Joe Skovron, a veteran who has been in charge of Rickie Fowler‘s bag for thirteen years, until August 2022, and who has since worked with Tom Kim. His last tournament was the DP World Tour Championship in Dubai.
The first tournament in which Aberg and Skovron will work together is the Sentry Tournament of Champions of the PGA Tour, next January in Hawaii.
In this sense, it must be said that Aberg follows a very similar trajectory to that of Jon Rahm. The one from Barrika worked with his friend and college teammate Ben Shur just the year he turned pro (2016) and at the beginning of the following season he signed a veteran like Adam Hayes, with whom he continues to this day.
