Bernhard Langer’s caddie says 3 phrases. Then comes a visor toss

Yet another putt. 

Straightforward! Particularly Sunday, when Bernhard Langer had been making all the putts. A 50-footer on 2 at Phoenix Nation Membership. 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 ascended into the lead in the course of the ultimate spherical of the Charles Schwab Cup Championship, the season-ending occasion for the PGA Tour Champions, the 50-and-over bunch tour. 

However golf, as we properly know, is fickle. It’s a bit like a roulette wheel, in that no matter success you discovered on earlier holes gained’t essentially reappear on those upcoming. Langer might know this higher than most. He’s been profitable — two-time Masters winner, extra Champions victories than anybody — and he’s been round some time. Over his 67 years, the checklist of issues he hasn’t skilled is shorter than a gimme.

Apparently, one merchandise not checked off had been a Charles Schwab victory, and he was rolling Sunday till golf did its factor. On 17, he received questionably aggressive on a ball close to a tree, he struck it, and he coughed up all of a two-stroke benefit after a bogey. On 18, a par-5, Langer hooked a tee shot left, punched by means of some bushes, then pitched on to 30 ft. He wanted that to drop, and a Steven Alker miss, to win — and proceed a formidable streak. Langer had gained 17-straight years on the Champions circuit, however, after lacking a stretch earlier this 12 months because of a torn left Achilles, he’d been shut out in his 18th marketing campaign. 

You hope to proceed most of these issues. You need to win. Seemingly, he knew the place he stood. 

Terry Holt, his longtime caddie, appeared to grasp too. 

He quieted the speak now round his professional with three phrases. 

They’re on the prime of this text. 

“I mentioned to him once we have been over the putt: Yet another putt,” Holt mentioned, in an interview with the Champions’ social-media group. 

“I imply, he’s putted the lights out of it this week, one in every of his best-ever placing weeks. Ran the tables all week on the greens. And I simply mentioned yet one more putt.

“And he did it.”

Did he. 

“That’s leisure, of us.”

That’s one thing, little doubt. Afterward, although, Langer admitted he was unsure in regards to the putt. He mentioned he felt he picked the appropriate line, however questioned in regards to the velocity. “It did simply completely what it wanted to do and disappeared,” Langer informed reporters. “Then all hell broke unfastened sort of emotionally, so it was fairly wild, yeah.” He additionally believed the win answered the near-constant query to him. 

“Individuals say why am I nonetheless enjoying,” Langer mentioned. “Effectively, because of this, as a result of I benefit from the adrenaline, I take pleasure in being within the hunt and I nonetheless really feel like I can win and be there on the leaderboard. I’ve simply confirmed that once more, turning into the oldest winner repeatedly out right here. It’s been nice to compete in opposition to these guys. Such as you mentioned, it by no means will get previous.”

Yet another putt, certainly. 

“Terry, my caddie, after we hit the wedge again right here, says, ‘Effectively, it’s yet one more putt,’” Langer mentioned throughout an interview on Golf Channel. 

“He’s a prophet, I suppose.” 

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