The sexagenarian recapped his “miraculous comeback journey” and went so far as to state that he has plenty of good golf left to play, hopefully including one more competitive go at Augusta National.
An Achilles tendon tear will cause Bernhard Langer to miss the Masters next month in what was to be his final competitive stroll around Augusta National. This much we knew. What we didn’t know, however, was how the injury actually happened.
Bernhard Langer won a record-tying fifth PNC Championship Sunday at Ritz-Carlton Golf Club and quickly wanted everyone to know that he was going on a holiday.
It’s an interesting take from Bernhard Langer, especially considering he was a player who battled the mentally scarring yips at the height of his career. But he’s right.
It was Langer’s record 12th senior major championship, to go with two Masters titles. It was his second US Senior Open victory, 13 years after his first. It also marked his record 11th season with multiple victories, his having won the Chubb Classic earlier this year.
One is the senior circuit’s reigning phenomenon, the other its living legend. Today at Phoenix Country Club, they both reaffirmed their status with historic victories to cap the 2020-2021 super season.
With a cheque for $US305,000, the Kiwi has earned $US896,207 – more than he made in his PGA Tour career – in just nine tournaments since he qualified for the Boeing Classic outside Seattle in late August for his PGA Tour Champions debut.
Produced by the R&A, the 90-minute documentary charts the life and times of the late, great Spanish golfer, who died in May 2011 at age 54 after an 18-month battle with brain cancer.
Dodd’s immediate future remains unclear, but it would be something of a surprise if his hope is not to parlay this victory into at least a few years on the lucrative senior circuit in the United States.
It is surely a question asked by many of Bernhard Langer’s fellow competitors on the PGA Tour Champions: What is the secret behind the 63-year-old German’s longevity?
Langer will attempt to do something he’s never accomplished before on the senior circuit – win without his trusty Odyssey White Hot 2-Ball Long putter.
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