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Bernhard Langer shoots age or better twice but falls to Y.E. Yang in Ascension Charity Classic

Langer comes up just short of winning for 47th time on PGA Tour Champions.

There was a lot to unpack from the final round of the 2024 Ascension Charity Classic.

The tournament went to a playoff Sunday at Norwood Hills Country Club in St. Louis, with Y.E. Yang seeking his first PGA Tour Champions victory. His playoff foe? None other than the guy with the most wins all time on the senior circuit, Bernhard Langer.

Now 67, Langer shot his age in Saturday’s third round and then beat his age by three shots Sunday with a 64. Those rounds were the 16th and 17th time he’s shot his age or better in his career.

His remarkable return from tearing his left Achilles tendon while playing pickleball on Feb. 1, however, came up just short, as Yang birdied the first playoff hole to claim the title.

“This week I think very special,” said Yang, who beat Tiger Woods in the 2009 PGA Championship and who was making his 72nd career Champions tour start.

As for Langer, he continues to battle through rehab as he returns to tournament play, and he admits his leg is not back to 100 percent.

“No. I wish it was. You know, I’m in the middle of it so I don’t see a lot of improvement,” he said Sunday. “If I look back two months, yeah, I’m definitely walking better than I did two months ago. So there is some improvement, but it’s slow. It’s going to continue to take probably five more months or something like that. That’s what I’m told. I would like to have it happen sooner, but it’s not.”

Langer, who has a PGA Tour Champions-best 46 wins, now has 42 second-place finishes.

In the latest Charles Schwab Cup standings, Yang is up to sixth. The top five:

  • Ernie Els
  • Stephen Ames
  • Steven Alker
  • Richard Green
  • K.J. Choi

There are four regular-season events left before the three-tournament playoffs.

John Daly shoots 87, Angel Cabrera T-39 after two rounds in Morocco on PGA Tour Champions

Good scores have been hard to come by this week.

John Daly had to withdraw last week after injuring his left hand, but he’s back in action this week on the PGA Tour Champions, which is in Morocco for the Trophy Hassan II.

Perhaps the hand is still a bit tender, as Daly slogged his way around Royal Golf Dar Es Salam in Rabat, Morocco, to the tune of a 14-over 87. His scorecard showed seven bogeys, two doubles and a quad. He did close with a birdie but is last in the 66-man field at 17 over.

Angel Cabrera is tied for 39th after two rounds. Playing in his first event on the Champions tour since getting out of prison, Cabrera shot 79-72 and is beating 21 others after Friday’s second round.

Good scores have been hard to come by this week. With 132 rounds played so far, there have been only eight rounds in the 60s. Meanwhile, there have been four scores in the 80s.

There’s a tie at the top of the leaderboard between Y.E. Yang and Ricardo Gonzalez, both at 7 under. Thomas Bjorn, Steve Pate and Mark Hensby are tied for third at 5 under. The final round is Saturday.

The PGA Tour Champions returns stateside in two weeks for the Cologuard Classic in Tucson, Arizona.

Steve Flesch sets course record, wins 2023 Ascension Charity Classic on PGA Tour Champions

Steve Flesch opened birdie-eagle-birdie-par-birdie-birdie in his final round Sunday.

Steve Flesch is back in victory lane, having routed the field at the 2023 Ascension Charity Classic with a tournament-best 62 on Sunday.

Despite shooting a pair of 66s in the first two rounds, he started the final day two shots back of the lead at Norwood Hills Country Club in St. Louis but he quickly made a move, opening birdie-eagle-birdie-par-birdie-birdie.

After three more birdies on the back nine, the lefty signed for 9-under round and earned his fourth PGA Tour Champions at 19 under. The 62 also ties Flesch’s career low round. He played the last 35 holes of the 54-hole tournament bogey free. His son Griffin was on the bag this week.

Flesch had three straight top-10s in late May/June this season then had a pair of WDs. He was T-58, T-33 and T-36 in his last three outings but definitely found the magic this week.

Kevin Sutherland and Y.E.Yang tied the then-course record with 64s in the first round while Colin Montgomerie and Bretty Quigley each had 64s in the second round. Montgomerie’s round was punctuated by his first Champions tour hole-in-one.

Rules of golf: Slow play, a missed re-start, bad advice and even fire ants highlight 2021

Some rules violations hit harder than others, while others just make you scratch your head.

Just when you think you’ve seen it all on the golf course, something else comes along to baffle fans, players, and rules officials alike.

The rules of golf can come up and bite you (pun intended: see fire ants below), if you’re not paying attention. Other times, weird things just happen. Further still, sometimes golfers simply don’t know a particular rule.

New rules of golf were rolled out on Jan. 1, 2019, but most of what trips golfers up continues to be of the tried-and-true variety.

As we get set to close out the year that was 2021, here’s a rundown of some of the memorable moments that involved rules violations.

Golfweek’s Steve DiMeglio, Beth Ann Nichols, Adam Schupak and Adam Woodard contributed to this article.

Y.E. Yang, the man who conquered Tiger Woods, is disqualified from the PGA Championship

A scorecard error led to Y.E. Yang’s disqualification from the 103rd PGA Championship.

KIAWAH ISLAND, S.C. – Y.E. Yang, who took down Tiger Woods in the final round to win the Wanamaker Trophy in 2009, was disqualified Friday at the 103rd PGA Championship.

Yang, whose last victory came in the 2018 Crowns on the Japan Golf Tour, signed an incorrect scorecard following the second round at The Ocean Course on Kiawah Island. Yang singed for a 4 on the par-4 10th when he actually made a 5.

After he signed the scorecard and left the scoring area, he was disqualified. According to Rule 3.3b, which addresses a player’s responsibility when scoring in stroke play, the player is disqualified if he returns a score for any hole lower than the one actually taken for any reason other than failing to include a penalty stroke he did not know about.

Yang shot 75 in the first round and followed it up with a second-round 83 (an 84 with the adjusted score on No. 10). He was 14 over when he signed his incorrect scorecard.

In better days, Yang overcame a two-shot deficit in the final round to topple Woods at Hazeltine National in Minnesota. Yang closed with a 70 for a 3-shot win for his lone major championship triumph.

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The 5 best PGA Championships of the last 30 years

So much drama, so many memories, but not quite on the level as these five all-time favorites. Here are the top 5 PGAs of the last 30 years.

The Wanamaker Trophy has been awarded 101 times, and while Brooks Koepka will have to wait a little longer to attempt to three-peat due to the COVID-19 Pandemic, it won’t stop us from reliving some of the great moments in PGA Championship history in what should have been this week for the 102nd PGA at TPC Harding Park in San Francisco.

For this exercise, we’ve centered on the top 5 PGA’s of the last 30 years, which meant leaving out some great duels such as David Toms over Phil Mickelson in 2001, the underdog story of Rich Beem over Tiger Woods, or how about unheralded Shaun Micheel stiffing it at the 72nd hole in 2003.

So much drama, so many memories, but not quite on the level as these five all-time favorites.

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