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Ludvig Aberg has 36-hole lead, few stumbles in US Open debut

AP photo by George Walker IV / Ludvig Aberg watches his tee shot from the 15th hole on Pinehurst Resort's No. 2 couse during the second round of the U.S. Open on Friday in North Carolina.
AP photo by George Walker IV / Ludvig Aberg watches his tee shot from the 15th hole on Pinehurst Resort's No. 2 couse during the second round of the U.S. Open on Friday in North Carolina. AP photo by George Walker IV / Ludvig Aberg watches his tee shot from the 15th hole on Pinehurst Resort's No. 2 couse during the second round of the U.S. Open on Friday in North Carolina.

By DOUG FERGUSON / The Associated Press 7 min read

PINEHURST, N.C. — The U.S. Open is a new experience for Ludvig Aberg, not that anyone would notice the way his machine-like game gave him the 36-hole lead Friday.

Pinehurst Resort’s famed No. 2 course is not.

Aberg was a 19-year-old from Sweden about to start his college career at Texas Tech when he came to this Donald Ross gem for the 2019 U.S. Amateur, losing in the second round.

“I remember it was one of my first experiences coming over and playing a really hard golf course in America,” Aberg said. “And I was like, ‘Is this what golf in America is like?’

“Luckily it’s not like this every week. But I just remember it being very hard.”