You’ll have to forgive Ludvig Aberg for not keeping up with professional golf news during his offseason. The young Swede was a little concerned after undergoing knee surgery after the Tour Championship, which forced him to sideline clubs for four weeks to heal.

“It’s been pretty cool,” Aberg said Tuesday at the RSM Classic, where he is the defending champion. “I had knee surgery, so I had about four weeks off. The first two weeks I didn’t miss it at all, I’m not going to lie, but the last few weeks my fingers are were itchy a lot, so it’s been nice to get back to training, to play a lot more at home.”

Aberg’s off-season activities also included buying a home, which, as anyone who has ever done, is a tedious process. Between that and getting his knee back to full health, the last thing on his mind was golf news.

But the golf news that broke semi-recently wasn’t just any old golf news. This is news that can and will affect the livelihood of the PGA Tour starting in 2026. The proposed changes (smaller fields, fewer tour cards, adjustments to FedExCup points, etc.) have been approved by the PGA Tour Policy Board Monday at RSM. Classic. Aberg, who is at Sea Island this week, had absolutely no idea what was going on.

Here is his exchange with Shane Ryan of Golf Digest:

Ludvig, can I have your opinion on the PGA TOUR format changes that took place yesterday?

LUDVIG ABERG: I didn’t know that.

ABERG: No, I didn’t know. What was that?

So there will be smaller fields, so these are proposals that took place at the end of October and were adopted yesterday.

Q. Smaller rosters, fewer Tour cards, fewer KFT Tour entries, et cetera. Is this news to you?

ABERG: This is actually news to me, I’m sorry, I didn’t know that.

Ahh, being blissfully unaware. On the one hand, you could say that Aberg should probably pay a little more attention to this. On the other hand, though, will the changes really affect a player of his caliber? Obviously, one could argue that they will actually help him. Here we are looking at a potential future world No. 1. He will be participating in all the major events and will have his tour card in the near future. Head down, keep grinding. And also make sure you pay that mortgage on time.