Bernhard Langer shot decrease than his age to grab victory on the season-ending Charles Schwab Cup Championship and prolong his file of profitable a title yearly on the PGA Tour Champions’ circuit to 18 years.
The 67-year-old holed a 30-foot birdie putt on the ultimate gap to card a five-under-par 66 and seal a one-stroke victory on 18 underneath over defending champion Steven Alker and Richard Inexperienced.
It’s the forty seventh title Langer has received on the over-50s circuit and the primary since tearing his Achilles tendon in early 2024.
“It is unbelievable,” mentioned Langer, who additionally had rounds of 69, 64 and 67 on the Phoenix Nation Membership in Arizona.
“To win this huge match after what I have been via and to make 18 years in a row out right here, it is fairly wonderful. I am very grateful, very blessed.”
Langer, a two-time Masters winner, had a five-shot lead heading into the again 9 however back-to-back bogeys on the tenth and eleventh noticed his lead diminish.
An extra bogey on the seventeenth, coupled with Alker making a birdie, noticed the pair head down the 18th degree.
Langer drove into the timber on the par-five closing gap however made a superb birdie to beat his age for a twenty second time and safe the win, as Alker might solely make par.
A joint second end for 53-year-old Alker was sufficient to cross Ernie Els and seize the season-long Charles Schwab Cup factors race.
“It could have been good to win all of it, the whole thing, however I’ve acquired the Schwab Cup and that is vital to me,” mentioned Alker.
