The Bernhard Langer box says 3 words. Then comes a throw of the ruler

Another easy shot.

Easy! Especially on Sunday, when Bernhard Langer had done all of them the shots. A 50-foot par 2 at Phoenix Country Club. A 20-footer on 3. A 15-footer on 4. A 25-footer on 9. A 20-footer on 13. He couldn’t miss. He climbed into the lead during the final round of the Charles Schwab Cup Championship, the season-ending event for PGA Tour Champions, the 50-and-over tournament.

But golf, as we well know, is fickle. It’s a bit like a roulette wheel, in that whatever success you’ve found on previous holes won’t necessarily recur on future ones. Langer may know this better than most. He’s been successful – two-time Masters winner, more champions than anyone else – and he’s been around. In his 67 years, the list of things he hasn’t experienced is shorter than a hint.

Interestingly, an unchecked item had been a Charles Schwab win, and he was rolling on Sunday until golf did the trick. On the 17th, he became suspiciously aggressive in a ball near a tree, he hit herand he coughed up a two-shot lead after a bogey. On the par-5 18th, Langer nailed a tee shot to the left, hit a few trees, then lofted to 30 feet. He needed that to lose, and a loss to Steven Alker, to win – and continue an impressive streak. Langer had won 17 years in a row in the Champions League, but after losing a share earlier this year due to a torn left Achilleshe was dismissed in his 18th campaign.

You hope to continue these kinds of things. You want to win. Apparently, he knew where he stood.

Terry Holt, his longtime caddy, seemed to understand, too.

He quieted the conversation now about his pro with three words.

They are at the top of this article.

“I told him when we were on the shootout: One more layup,” Holt said in an interview. with the Champions League social media team.

“I mean, he’s been lights out this week, one of his best pitching weeks ever. He ran the tables all week on the greens. And I said just a putt.

“And he did it.”

Is he.

“This is fun, people.”

That’s something, no doubt. Afterwards, however, Langer admitted he was unsure about the putt. He said he felt he picked the right line, but wondered about the speed. “He did perfectly what he was supposed to do and disappeared,” Langer told reporters. “Then all hell broke loose emotionally, so it was pretty wild, yeah.” He also believed that the victory answered the almost constant question to him.

“People say why am I still playing,” Langer said. “Well, that’s why, because I like the adrenaline, I like being in the hunt and I still feel like I can win and be up there on the leaderboard. I have just proved it again, becoming the oldest winner here and again. It’s been great competing against these guys. Like you said, she never gets old.”

Even a putt, really.

“Terry, my caddy, after we hit again here, he says, ‘Well, it’s another putt,'” Langer said during an interview on the Golf Channel.

“He’s a prophet, I think.”

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