He has finished in the top 10 in 68% of his tournaments, and the top 3 in 36% of his starts. Get the latest news and some area history with our afternoon newsletter. Langer won his fourth start after turning 50 in 2007 and he hasn't stopped. “It's obviously not about money (Langer has earned a record $31.8 million at the senior level). on Tuesday, and the tournament doesn't even start until Friday,” O'Meara said. “My caddie would get there early and he says Bernhard is out there on the putting green at 7:30 a.m. O'Meara last played a month ago at Pebble Beach and arrived as late as possible. The PGA Tour Champions is more of a victory lap than a grind. He was inducted into the World Golf Hall of Fame in 2015. O'Meara won the Masters and British Open in 1998, joining Jack Nicklaus and Ben Hogan as the only players in their 40s to win two majors in the same year. "To perform at a high level at his stage in life and be that committed is ridiculous.” “What Bernhard has done - look, I understand it's not the PGA Tour or European Tour - but to compete at the level he has is similar to what Tiger did for 10 years," he said. “What I witnessed in Tiger Woods' era was something special, and we might not see that for quite a long time,” O'Meara said Monday evening from his home in Las Vegas. Langer makes him think of Woods for only one reason: This kind of performance doesn't come along very often. He referred him as “the kid” - Langer is seven months younger - perhaps out of habit because that's what O'Meara used to call Tiger Woods back in the day. Mark O'Meara is on that list, and he raves about Langer. Since then, there have been six winners at 62 or older on the PGA Tour Champions. The previous mark for an individual event was Mike Fetchick, who was 63 when he won the Hilton Head Seniors Invitational in 1985.
To become the oldest so far to win out here, it's not easy.” “When you get to my age, you never know if you're going to win again.
His 42nd career victory made him the oldest player to win on the PGA Tour Champions. Langer took his place in the record book Sunday in Virginia when he holed a 6-foot birdie putt in a playoff to win the Dominion Energy Charity Classic. “But he plays like a young man and he's got that desire still, which is incredible.” I feel like a puppy next to him,” Ernie Els said. 1 player in the world, be inducted into the World Golf Hall of Fame and then win in each of his 15 years on the 50-and-older circuit? How else to explain how someone could be just as devoted to practice and fitness as he was 49 years ago when he turned pro as a 15-year-old in the tiny village of Anhausen? How he could win two Masters, be the first No. His victims during this PGA Tour Champions pro-am included Harrington, Clarke, Phil Mickelson and Tim Tebow, three of whom are British Open champions.Īs for his golf? Langer takes that seriously and always has. Turns out the 64-year-old German can be quite the prankster.
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