Ludvig Åberg

SAN DIEGO — Ludvig Aberg never felt worse leaving a golf course than three weeks ago at Torrey Pines when he shared the 36-hole lead only to get violently ill from a stomach ailment and stagger to the finish with a 79.

That’s what made Sunday — same course, different tournament — feel so sweet.

Aberg was three shots behind and running out of holes when he hit three shots to near perfection for birdies and capped off his late rally with a 7-foot birdie putt on the par-5 18th for a 6-under 66 and a one-shot victory over Maverick McNealy in the Genesis Invitational.

The tournament had to relocate to Torrey from Riviera because of the wildfires in Los Angeles, and Aberg made good on another chance at one of his favorite courses. It was somewhere toward the end that he turned to caddie Joe Skovron and said, “This Sunday is a lot more fun than the last one we had.”

“Was nice to come here starting to feel like myself again and physically getting there,” he said. “It means a lot. This is the best feeling in golf, and to be able to do what I did today is definitely going to help me going forward in the future.”

He met Tiger Woods, the tournament host, for the first time a few weeks ago at the indoor TGL in Florida. This was better — Woods presenting him the trophy, the second PGA Tour title for the 25-year-old Swede and his third worldwide that takes him to No. 4 in the world.

“It’s very reassuring to know that I can go from where I was a couple weeks ago to winning a tournament in sort of a quick turnaround,” he said.

Woods optimistic

Woods expects the fractured landscape of golf to “heal quickly” when the PGA Tour and the Saudi backers of rival LIV Golf reach an agreement that appears to be imminent.

Woods is the only player on the PGA Tour board without term limits and has been active in negotiations between PGA Tour Enterprises and the Public Investment Fund of Saudi Arabia.

He was scheduled to join Commissioner Jay Monahan and Adam Scott for a Feb. 4 meeting with President Donald Trump. Woods flew home to Florida when his mother died unexpectedly.

“I think that things are going to heal quickly,” Woods said Sunday in the CBS booth at the Genesis Invitational, where he is the tournament host.

“We’re going to get this game going in the right direction,” he said. “It’s been heading in the wrong direction for a number of years and the fans want all of us to play together, all the top players playing together and we’re going to make that happen.”

He described the negotiations as being in a “very positive place right now.” He also said another meeting was scheduled, though he did not say with whom. The transaction subcommittee involved in the PIF talks is scheduled to meet next week.

Elsewhere:

n Joaquin Niemann won his third LIV Golf title when he closed with a 7-under 65 on Sunday to erase a three-shot deficit and win LIV Golf Adelaide by three shots over Abraham Ancer and Carlos Ortiz. Ancer had led most of the final round until the Chilean rallied. They were tied with two holes to play when Ancer (71) finished bogey-bogey to fall back and Niemann birdied the 18th hole to finish at 13-under 203.

n Justin Leonard won the Chubb Classic for his first PGA Tour Champions victory, overcoming a slow start Sunday with a back-nine charge on Tiburon’s Black Course. Leonard birdied five of the last seven holes for a 4-under 68 and a four-stroke victory over Billy Andrade.