{"id":427847,"date":"2026-01-24T22:26:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-24T22:26:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/427847\/"},"modified":"2026-01-24T22:26:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-24T22:26:07","slug":"ludvig-aberg-withdraws-from-3rd-round-of-american-express","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/427847\/","title":{"rendered":"Ludvig \u00c5berg withdraws from 3rd round of American Express"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jan 24, 2026, 01:16 PM ET<\/p>\n<p>LA QUINTA, Calif. &#8212; Two-time Ryder Cup player <a data-player-guid=\"b74101c7-47ae-12d2-20e6-4d78dec884d7\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/golf\/player\/_\/id\/437597\/ludvig-aberg\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ludvig \u00c5berg<\/a> withdrew from the American Express on Saturday with an illness, the fourth player to withdraw this week from the first PGA Tour stop on the mainland.<\/p>\n<p>\u00c5berg was at 7-under par and playing the Stadium Course at PGA West when he withdrew. The Swede was making his first start of the year.<\/p>\n<p>It was about this time a year ago when \u00c5berg had an illness that caused him to lose 10 pounds. He was in contention at Torrey Pines, stuck it out and had a 74-79 weekend. He had to withdraw from his next start, and then returned to Torrey Pines for the Genesis Invitational &#8212; which moved from Riviera because of the Pacific Palisades fires &#8212; and won.<\/p>\n<p><a data-player-guid=\"619eba4f-2368-31ca-9d12-8912a6450d21\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/golf\/player\/_\/id\/521503\/luke-clanton\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Luke Clanton<\/a>, <a data-player-guid=\"07ca6c7d-76d2-fc09-184c-c1f33ec73143\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/golf\/player\/_\/id\/11385\/rico-hoey\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Rico Hoey<\/a> and <a data-player-guid=\"ff22e92f-d44e-3c9f-a468-344ac558647e\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/golf\/player\/_\/id\/483204\/nick-dunlap\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Nick Dunlap<\/a> previously withdrew from the American Express.<\/p>\n<p>Players are paired with amateurs for the opening three rounds. Former PGA Tour player <a data-player-guid=\"d9ca4ab9-ad2c-18e2-2e04-af71d9969592\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/golf\/player\/_\/id\/171\/jeff-gove\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jeff Gove<\/a> filled in for \u00c5berg so his amateur had a partner. Gove was the last player (at No. 144 in the standings) to qualify for the inaugural FedEx Cup playoffs event in 2007.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jan 24, 2026, 01:16 PM ET LA QUINTA, Calif. &#8212; Two-time Ryder Cup player Ludvig \u00c5berg withdrew from&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":427848,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[71],"tags":[427,99],"class_list":{"0":"post-427847","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-golf","8":"tag-golf","9":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/427847","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=427847"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/427847\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/427848"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=427847"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=427847"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=427847"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}