Bernhard Langer extends PGA Tour Champions record with season-ending victory

Bernhard Langer shot below his age to win the season-ending Charles Schwab Cup Championship, extending his record of winning a title every year on the PGA Tour Champions circuit to 18 years.

The 67-year-old holed a 30-foot birdie putt on the final hole to post a five-under-par score of 66 and secure a one-stroke victory at 18-under over defending champion Steven Alker and Richard Green.

It is the 47th title Langer has won in the over-50s and the first since he ruptured his Achilles tendon in early 2024.

“It’s unbelievable,” said Langer, who also had rounds of 69, 64 and 67 at Phoenix Country Club in Arizona.

“After everything I’ve been through, to win this big tournament and be here 18 years in a row is really amazing. I’m very grateful, very blessed.”

Langer, a two-time Masters winner, had a five-shot lead entering the back nine, but back-to-back bogeys on the 10th and 11th caused his lead to dwindle.

Another bogey on the 17th, coupled with a birdie from Alker, saw the pair descend the 18th level.

Langer drove into the trees on the final hole of the par 5 but made a brilliant birdie to beat his age for the 22nd time and secure the victory as Alker could only make par.

A shared second place for 53-year-old New Zealander Alker was enough to overtake Ernie Els and secure the Charles Schwab Cup points race for the entire season.

“It would have been nice to win everything, everything, but I have the Schwab Cup and that’s important to me,” Alker said.