Bernhard Langer wins for the second time on the Champions Tour at the SAS Championship
Bernhard Langer carded a sizzling nine-under par 63 in the final round of the SAS Championship, to record the second Champions Tour victory of the season, on Sunday, October 7, 2012.
Langer got off to a perfect start, as he parred each of the first three holes, prior to making a run of three straight birdies starting from the fourth hole.
He then added another two shots to his scorecard on the eighth and the ninth hole, to reach the turn with a five-under par score.
His flawless performance also continued on the back nine of the course and he recorded four birdies to defeat Jay Don Blake with a two-stroke margin.
"I knew I had to go deeper and lower to make up some ground," Langer said. "And thank goodness ... it was 9 under because Jay Don came very close to tie me. So a lot of good golf, probably only two bad shots and everything else was good or really good”.
Blake, in the meantime, carded a four-under par 68 and finished second on the leaderboard. According to him, Langer played aggressively throughout the day and the strategy worked out for him.
On the other hand, Blake kept on focusing on the par putts, rather than making birdie chances. On the 18th hole, he desperately needed a birdie to force the game to enter the payoffs.
Therefore, he tried to play an aggressive game and the technique did not work out in his favour in the end. He bogeyed the final hole and handed over the victory to Langer.
"Probably the rhythm that I was in wasn't very good because I was just making pars; Bernhard was making all the birdies," Blake said.
"You just feel like you have to be more aggressive. But sometimes being aggressive doesn't always work out. Trying to be too aggressive on 18 kind of hurt me".
Langer, who has been playing brilliantly, right from the beginning of the 2012 Champions Tour season, also surged to the top of the Charles Schwab Cup points list.
Until now, he has played a total of 17 tournaments this season and succeeded in recording top-10 finishes in 14 of them.
The tied 17th-place finish at the Mississippi Gulf Resort Classic was his poorest this year. Other than that, he never finished out of the top-15 in any of the tournaments that he has played so far.
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