Ludvig Aberg has not exactly been searching for answers with the putter this season, but he has been searching for something.
The Swede arrived at this week’s Charles Schwab Challenge having already experimented with different heads and loft configurations in his familiar Odyssey No. 1-style blade. Then, before the tournament began at Colonial Country Club, he made perhaps his most significant putting change yet, putting a Scotty Cameron Phantom 3.2 prototype mallet into play.
Ludvig Aberg’s new Scotty Cameron Phantom 3.2 prototype putter.
Aberg’s Scotty Cameron Phantom 3.2 has a plumber’s neck hosel that creates moderate toe hang, so it should be ideal for a golfer, like Aberg, who has a moderate arc in his stroke. Plus, with extra weight forward, it should swing and feel like his blade putter, but with the benefit of added stability and forgiveness.
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Two rounds are nowhere near enough to declare the switch a success. Golf is littered with examples of players making equipment changes, enjoying a brief honeymoon period and then returning to their previous setup. But through 36 holes in Fort Worth, the early returns have at least been encouraging.
Aberg’s Scotty Cameron Phantom 3.2 appears to have a multi-material construction and boosted perimeter weighting for more stability.
After opening with a 2.078 Strokes Gained: Putting performance in the first round, Aberg followed it with another positive day on the greens, gaining 1.178 strokes with the putter in Round 2. Through two rounds, he had gained more than 3.2 strokes on the field with the flatstick while sitting comfortably inside the top 20.
That is notable because putting has quietly been one of the weaker parts of Aberg’s statistical profile in 2026.
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Entering the week, he ranked 59th on the PGA Tour in Strokes Gained: Putting at 0.169 per round. Those numbers are hardly disastrous, but they lagged behind the elite ball-striking statistics that have helped establish him as one of the game’s brightest stars.
The chain link pattern on the face of Aberg’s Scotty Cameron Phantom 3.2 putter is designed to soften the feel of impact.
The deeper putting numbers showed a few areas where improvement was needed. Aberg ranked 122nd in putting inside 10 feet, converting 87.42 percent of those attempts. His one-putt percentage ranked 85th, and he was 97th in three-putt avoidance. While he was excellent from 10 to 15 feet, ranking 22nd on Tour, he had been losing ground in several of the distances where the game’s best putters separate themselves.
Whether the change sticks remains to be seen. Two rounds are just two rounds. But after months of tinkering with a putter that was merely average by PGA Tour standards, Aberg finally has something every golfer wants when trying a new flatstick: early evidence that it might actually be helping.
David Dusek is a senior writer covering equipment for Golfweek.
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