Min Woo Lee – image Australian Golf Media
As rain poured, defending champion Min Woo Lee cut short his practice for this week’s BMW Australian PGA Championship at Royal Queensland and faced the media ahead of his return to the scene of his magnificent victory twelve months ago.
Fresh from a midfield finish at last week’s DP World Tour Championship, Lee reflected on his rushed trip from Dubai and his anticipation of the week ahead.
“A quick 14-hour flight down, slept for half of it and then slept a little bit this morning, so I’ll probably be pretty tired tonight,” said the 26 year old rising star of Australian golf. “Looking forward to this week and yeah, hopefully have a good two weeks down in Australia.”
Lee has completed a year which has seen him drop back in world ranking but consolidate his place on the PGA Tour and today reflected on the year and how he has measured it thus far.
“Yeah, again, a win would’ve been amazing, but I’ve had a very consistent year, which is I think where I would have wanted to be.
“When I first turned pro there were a lot of fiery finishes, but also a lot of missed cuts when I first turned pro. So the last couple of years I’ve played a lot of weekends but not got myself too much, not as much as I wanted to into contention.
“So again, I think we’re just trying to find my feet to play better golf and it’s heading into that direction, so hopefully it can translate soon. But the game’s getting close and I think my team and I are pretty proud of where it’s going. Just need to put four good rounds together and hopefully I’ll be there.”
Lee spent much of the year in the USA and was full of praise for the assistance and mentoring provided by Jason Day who he looks up to as a role model of sorts and expressed delight Day is back playing in Australia for the first time for several years.
“Jason’s been a very good friend and a good role model over the last few months since Olympics and President’s Cup. I’ve learned a lot from him and I owe a lot. He’s been a, again great friend, a great role model, but just things that you would kind of learn down the road.”
When quizzed on the sort of help Day has provided Lee added;
“What I tell to kids and my friends is kind of like what he’s been telling me. You don’t really listen to many people because I guess I’ve been successful, I can play golf, but he’s obviously been at another level,
“No.1 player in the world and he’s a major winner, so he’s already been there. So it’s kind of those things that he tells me about. Nothing crazy, but just someone that kind of puts me in my place a little bit, that type of stuff.
“Him and obviously Adam Scott have been amazing in Australian golf and yeah, I look up to them a lot. I mean, I hung out with Adam a couple times last week and it’s cool to just text him and call him and yeah, it’s a pretty cool moment. I still feel like I’m a little kid and I look up to him still.”
“Jason’s telling me what he’s done over the last, how many years he’s played and a lot of wisdom I guess. And he’s kind of a kid too. People don’t really know behind the scenes, but we are pretty… I mean, I would say I’m younger in mental age, but he’s pretty young too, so we like to have fun and enjoy our time and the times that we’ve had have been amazing and yeah, he’s great in that part in the sense that I want to learn golf and try to get my game to another level, he’s there for me.
“And then also when we’re out having dinners, we can talk about anything. So yeah, he’s been a very good friend to me and it’s great to have him in Australia. It’s been a while and yeah, hopefully we get to play together and show off.
“I’m sure he is very excited to play here. His game’s at a level where he wanted to be after injury, and it’s very cool to see and good to see.
“Pretty proud of the way he’s gone about it and hopefully he plays well and I play better, but we are going to have fun. I really love and appreciate that he is down in Australia playing.”
Lee asked how he reflected on last year’s victory and what a win at this point of the season would mean to him.
“Last year was amazing. Obviously towards the end of the year, I mean I guess you would like a win at the beginning of the year, but at the end of the year you can kind of reflect and feel like you’ve done a really, really good job and having one win for a year is good.
“I had two last year, but I haven’t won this year and hopefully one of the next two weeks is nice to me. But it’s going to be very cool to go back-to-back. I haven’t done that before and just being in a tournament that you are coming back to defend is a special feeling and especially being here on the grounds now, it’s cool.
“I think just a lot of confidence for the next few tournaments. I feel like my game’s very close to being in contention. Again, I haven’t really just converted when I needed to, but one aspect of the game I needed to get better at was my approach play and the last few months have kind of proven that the work that my team has done has got there, but because I’m hitting it better.
“Converting doesn’t seem as often because I used to miss a lot of greens and then make a lot of up and downs, but now I’m hitting greens. Obviously you can’t hole every putt that you hit greens on.
“But yeah, hopefully I can hit it closer and hole some putts, but just to not get too down on myself, especially when that happens because it felt like that the last couple of tournaments. Hopefully, I can keep a good attitude. It’s kind of where I want my game to be. So hopefully the putts fall in.”
Lee is currently ranked as Australia’s third highest-ranked player behind Adam Scott and Jason Day in terms of official world ranking but of course, Cameron Smith’s absence from world ranking events means that Lee is unofficially ranked number four in Australian golf at present.
But many think that the young man from Perth is destined for great things in the game and he might well add further strength to that argument this week.
Cam Davis under the radar but very much a PGA Championship contender
Cam Davis on course this week – image Australian Golf Media
Former Australian Amateur and Open champion, Cam Davis, plays this week’s BMW Australian PGA Championship under the radar to some extent, but given his standing amongst Australian golfers he deserves to be one of the favourites to win his third Australian flagship event.
The winner of the 2015 Australian Amateur Championship, the Eisenhower Trophy Team’s event and World Amateur Championship in 2016 and the Australian Open in the very early stages of his professional career in 2017, Davis is now a successful PGA Tour player having not only won two events there but having made the elite Tour Championship field in 2024 and finished inside the top 50 in the FedEx Cup standings.
By nearly every measure he deserves to be one of the favourites ahead of this week’s Australian PGA Championship but with the higher profiled Jason Day, Cam Smith and Min Woo Lee taking much of the limelight, he has again escaped the attention he deserves. Perhaps by week’s end it will be a case of him having let his clubs do the talking.
The former Sydneysider, who these days lives in Seattle in the USA where he is married to an American wife, now has an embarrassment of riches in terms of lucrative playing options, having access to all the signature events on the PGA Tour in 2025 and all majors.
Given the platforms he continues to build for himself in his, still, relatively young career, then there is every reason to believe he could well find himself amongst the favourites in any event he contends, not just the Australian PGA Championship.
Earlier in the week Davis addressed the media and expressed his desire to do well at home.
“I want to play my best. I feel like every tournament I tee it up in, I want to play my best, but there’s just a little extra desire to play well at home.
“I mean I don’t try and put any extra pressure on myself, but I’m definitely trying to bring my best golf to each week that I play, whether it’s this week or next week. So yeah, it doesn’t really change as the years go on, just want to keep trying to win tournaments over here.
“I mean even if I don’t have two great weeks on the golf course, it’s still so nice to finish the year here. It would mean a lot to finish the year with a bang because the next season’s so close by now that it’d be great to kind of roll into 2025 with some really good form.
“But yeah, regardless it’s just so nice to finish it up at home. So yeah, I’m really looking forward to two weeks with familiar accents around me and familiar golf courses. It’s going to be a lot of fun.”
Davis has played this event and the course in recent years and was asked his thoughts on how he might perform this week.
“I feel like last few years I’ve actually hit the ball pretty well, but you just have a couple of days where the putts don’t go in. I mean the greens are grainy. Some pin positions can get really tricky out here and it’s just a matter of making putts because about 20-under par usually wins.
“When it gets like that, it’s usually a bit of a putting contest. Fingers crossed a few more drop in this year and that’ll get me higher up the leaderboard.”
There is something to like about the understated manner and career of Cam Davis to this point. If he was to add yet another Australian flagship event to his already impressive list this week then this writer, for one, would not be surprised.
Min Woo Lee talks PGA defence, Jason Day and 2024 year
Min Woo Lee – image Australian Golf Media
As rain poured, defending champion Min Woo Lee cut short his practice for this week’s BMW Australian PGA Championship at Royal Queensland and faced the media ahead of his return to the scene of his magnificent victory twelve months ago.
Fresh from a midfield finish at last week’s DP World Tour Championship, Lee reflected on his rushed trip from Dubai and his anticipation of the week ahead.
“A quick 14-hour flight down, slept for half of it and then slept a little bit this morning, so I’ll probably be pretty tired tonight,” said the 26 year old rising star of Australian golf. “Looking forward to this week and yeah, hopefully have a good two weeks down in Australia.”
Lee has completed a year which has seen him drop back in world ranking but consolidate his place on the PGA Tour and today reflected on the year and how he has measured it thus far.
“Yeah, again, a win would’ve been amazing, but I’ve had a very consistent year, which is I think where I would have wanted to be.
“When I first turned pro there were a lot of fiery finishes, but also a lot of missed cuts when I first turned pro. So the last couple of years I’ve played a lot of weekends but not got myself too much, not as much as I wanted to into contention.
“So again, I think we’re just trying to find my feet to play better golf and it’s heading into that direction, so hopefully it can translate soon. But the game’s getting close and I think my team and I are pretty proud of where it’s going. Just need to put four good rounds together and hopefully I’ll be there.”
Lee spent much of the year in the USA and was full of praise for the assistance and mentoring provided by Jason Day who he looks up to as a role model of sorts and expressed delight Day is back playing in Australia for the first time for several years.
“Jason’s been a very good friend and a good role model over the last few months since Olympics and President’s Cup. I’ve learned a lot from him and I owe a lot. He’s been a, again great friend, a great role model, but just things that you would kind of learn down the road.”
When quizzed on the sort of help Day has provided Lee added;
“What I tell to kids and my friends is kind of like what he’s been telling me. You don’t really listen to many people because I guess I’ve been successful, I can play golf, but he’s obviously been at another level,
“No.1 player in the world and he’s a major winner, so he’s already been there. So it’s kind of those things that he tells me about. Nothing crazy, but just someone that kind of puts me in my place a little bit, that type of stuff.
“Him and obviously Adam Scott have been amazing in Australian golf and yeah, I look up to them a lot. I mean, I hung out with Adam a couple times last week and it’s cool to just text him and call him and yeah, it’s a pretty cool moment. I still feel like I’m a little kid and I look up to him still.”
“Jason’s telling me what he’s done over the last, how many years he’s played and a lot of wisdom I guess. And he’s kind of a kid too. People don’t really know behind the scenes, but we are pretty… I mean, I would say I’m younger in mental age, but he’s pretty young too, so we like to have fun and enjoy our time and the times that we’ve had have been amazing and yeah, he’s great in that part in the sense that I want to learn golf and try to get my game to another level, he’s there for me.
“And then also when we’re out having dinners, we can talk about anything. So yeah, he’s been a very good friend to me and it’s great to have him in Australia. It’s been a while and yeah, hopefully we get to play together and show off.
“I’m sure he is very excited to play here. His game’s at a level where he wanted to be after injury, and it’s very cool to see and good to see.
“Pretty proud of the way he’s gone about it and hopefully he plays well and I play better, but we are going to have fun. I really love and appreciate that he is down in Australia playing.”
Lee asked how he reflected on last year’s victory and what a win at this point of the season would mean to him.
“Last year was amazing. Obviously towards the end of the year, I mean I guess you would like a win at the beginning of the year, but at the end of the year you can kind of reflect and feel like you’ve done a really, really good job and having one win for a year is good.
“I had two last year, but I haven’t won this year and hopefully one of the next two weeks is nice to me. But it’s going to be very cool to go back-to-back. I haven’t done that before and just being in a tournament that you are coming back to defend is a special feeling and especially being here on the grounds now, it’s cool.
“I think just a lot of confidence for the next few tournaments. I feel like my game’s very close to being in contention. Again, I haven’t really just converted when I needed to, but one aspect of the game I needed to get better at was my approach play and the last few months have kind of proven that the work that my team has done has got there, but because I’m hitting it better.
“Converting doesn’t seem as often because I used to miss a lot of greens and then make a lot of up and downs, but now I’m hitting greens. Obviously you can’t hole every putt that you hit greens on.
“But yeah, hopefully I can hit it closer and hole some putts, but just to not get too down on myself, especially when that happens because it felt like that the last couple of tournaments. Hopefully, I can keep a good attitude. It’s kind of where I want my game to be. So hopefully the putts fall in.”
Lee is currently ranked as Australia’s third highest-ranked player behind Adam Scott and Jason Day in terms of official world ranking but of course, Cameron Smith’s absence from world ranking events means that Lee is unofficially ranked number four in Australian golf at present.
But many think that the young man from Perth is destined for great things in the game and he might well add further strength to that argument this week.
Royal Queensland’s 17th – the calm before the storm
The par 3 17th at Royal Queensland – looking from and to the tee – images Bruce Young
The BMW Australian PGA Championship gets underway this Thursday, but on Tuesday, when so many of the field were making their final preparations, Royal Queensland’s layout and surroundings were serene.
By Sunday however that peace and calm will almost certainly be replaced by rowdy and engaged crowds, most of whom will be centred around the par 3 17th ‘party hole’ which has rapidly become a magnet for those looking for fun and excitement.
The event’s already successful staging since its move from RACV Royal Pines on the Gold Coast in 2021 has, to a large extent, been the result of increasing interaction between the players and their fans, and there is no better example of such than the amphitheatre surrounding the 17th.
In 2024 that amphitheatre or cauldron becomes even more so with the introduction of almost wall to wall seating or corporate boxes surrounding the hole.
Many traditional golf fans are split with their thoughts on the idea of the razzamatazz involved in such an initiative to widen the appeal of tournament golf.
There is little doubt, however, the attraction and talking point the stadium effect creates and on Sunday at Royal Queensland it may well be the noise from the overhead planes landing at nearby Brisbane airport that will be forced to take second fiddle to the boisterous crowd surrounding the ‘party hole’.
Nelly Korda makes it seven wins for the season
Nelly Korda – wins her 7th title of the season
The LPGA Tour heads to Naples in Florida this week for the season-ending event on that tour, the CME Tour Championship.
The leading 60 players in the Race to the CME Globe rankings at the completion of this past week’s event, The ANNIKA in Florida, assemble at the Tiburon Golf Club to chase part of the US$11 million purse and one New Zealander and four Australians have made the field.
Lydia Ko in 3rd position, Hannah Green (6th), Gabi Ruffels (30th), Grace Kim (46th) and Minjee Lee (54th) all get their chance for one final payday in this LPGA Tour season.
Stephanie Kyriacou (62nd) and Hira Naveed (72nd) will miss out on a start but they can rest easy in the knowledge that by finishing inside the top 100 in the rankings they have secured their LPGA Tour status for 2025.
Ko has been the standout amongst that group, winning the season opener in Orlando and later winning the Gold Medal at the Olympics in Paris, the AIG Women’s Open at St Andrews and the Kroger Queen City event in Ohio and is in 4th place in the Rolex World rankings after beginning the year in 31st place.
The winner this week was Nelly Korda who recorded an amazing 7th win for the season taking her earnings beyond US$4 million with one lucrative event to come..
Korda made a blistering start to the season, winning six of her first eight events before a relative slump through the middle of the year.
Korda regained her lost form late in the season, finishing 5th and runner-up in her last two starts before her win today.
“Just makes me really, really grateful for my team,” said the winner when asked to compare this win with those earlier in the year.
“The middle of the year was very, very tough part of the year, but I’m so grateful to have people that I can lean on. That will be with me through the hard times. I feel like in the world of sports when someone is going through a hard time, aka the player, people tend to search for something better.
“My people stuck with me and grinded out the hard times and for that I’m super grateful.”
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Adam Scott completes great season with 3rd place in Dubai
Adam Scott finishes his season in style – file photo Australian Golf Media
Adam Scott has finished in an impressive share of 3rd place at the season-ending event on the DP World Tour, the DP World Tour Championship.
Scott adds another €525,000 to his already significant earnings for the season and while without a victory in 2024 he has shown with four top 5 finishes worldwide, that, at the age of 44, he remains competitive at the highest level.
Scott’s final round of 68 was one of the best of the day and saw him jump 6 positions from his overnight 9th place, a two-putt birdie from 15 feet at the last completing a bogey-free round.
Scott will finish the season in 8th position in the Race to Dubai rankings, an improvement of 8 places from his place heading into the event and will finish his competitive year in around 20th position in the world ranking and as the leading Australian.
Scott has made the decision to not compete in Australia’s two flagship events over the next two weeks, the Australian PGA and Open Championships, and instead take a well-deserved break.
Min Woo Lee was the only other Australian to make it into the field in Dubai and finished in a share of 24th place and earned €74,000.
Min Woo Lee now boards a plane to Brisbane where he will be one of the start attractions at this coming week’s PGA Championship where he will defend the title he won so impressively twelve months ago and where the new DP World Tour season begins.
The winner however was the brilliant Rory McIlroy who after a mid-round struggle with Denmark’s Rasmus Hojgaard drew clear with two late birdies to win by two over Hojgaard with another three shots back to Scott, Antoine Rozner and Shane Lowry.
For McIlroy, it completes a season in which he has won on three occasions and been runner-up on four more. He easily claims the Race to Dubai honours over Hojgaard.
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Lucas Herbert wins first Australasian Tour event at Golf NSW
An impressive winner – Lucas Herbert his first Australasian Tour title – image Golf NSW
Lucas Herbert upstaged his LIV Golf captain, Cameron Smith, in today’s final round of the Ford NSW Open Championship at the Murray Downs Golf and Country Club on the NSW / Victorian border, to win his first PGA Tour of Australasia event by three shots over Smith and NSW golfers, Corey Lamb and Alex Simpson, securing a cheque for A$136,500 in the process.
On a day when as many as five players could conceivably have taken the prestigious title, most of the focus was on the battle between the two marquee players, Smith and Herbert, but with Herbert’s almost faultless round of 67 some seven shots better than that of the two shot 54 hole leader, Smith, then it would be Herbert who would break through for a welcome first victory at home.
Another three shots back were New Zealand’s Josh Geary and already two-time PGA Tour of Australasia Tour this season, Jack Buchanan.
Yeah, pretty special.” Herbert grinned when asked how it felt to take the title by Golf NSW. “There’s a very good contingent of Bendigo crew here this week.
“I know it’s a NSW Open, but it feels like a home event really.
“For a lot of guys from Bendigo it’s the closest thing I’ll play to a tour event. So very special to win in front of all my friends and family in here as well.”
Jack Buchanan shared 5th place, Buchanan retaining his place at the top of the PGA Tour of Australasia Order of Merit.
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Adam Scott five off the pace in Dubai
Adam Scott – file phot0
Adam Scott and Min Woo Lee were the two Australian to be inside the top 50 in the DP World’s Race to Dubai rankings ahead of this week’s DP World Tour Championship and, as a result, earned the right to play the season-ending event.
At the halfway stage at the Earth Course at the Jumeirah Golf Estates Earth Course in Dubai Scott is in a share of 12th place and five off the lead held by Frenchman Antoine Rozner.
Scott added a second round of 71 to his opening 69 recovering from a slow start to his second round with a back nine of 34 to be on the edge of contention heading into the weekend.
Lee is two shots behind Scott in a share of 21st place after a struggling round of 72.
Scott will head for a break after this week’s event, making the decision to miss Australia’s flagship events over the next two weeks for the first time in several years to spend time with family and recover from what has been a hectic schedule of late.
Lee, however, will head to Brisbane after this week’s event to attempt to defend his Australian PGA Championship at Royal Queensland.
The leader through 36 holes, Rozner, is a two-time winner on the DP World Tour. Although the 31-year-old has not won anywhere in more than two years, he has been in good form in recent starts and recording 14 birdies in his opening 36 holes suggests he has carried that form into this week.
Rozner is ahead of two-time winner of the event, Rory McIlroy,, who shares second place with Tyrell Hatton, a winner and runner-up in his last two DP World Tour starts.
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Herbert and Smith create dream scenario for NSW Open organisers
Lucas Herbert and Cam Smith complete their second round today
Golf NSW could not have scripted it better. The two marquee players in the field for this week’s Ford NSW Open are in first and second position as the event enters the weekend at the Murray Downs Golf and Country Club, with Lucas Herbert ahead by two over Cam Smith.
The Liv Golf pair provided a great boost for the $800,000 tournament leading into the week, allowing a greater amount of publicity for the event than has been the case for some time and they appear likely to offer a lot more over the final 36 holes.
The pair played together in the afternoon group on day two and while Herbert took a while to build momentum, his homeward nine of 31 saw him move past Smith who had taken the lead through nine holes.
A three-shot swing between the pair at the par 5 16th would prove the difference. Herbert’s eagle against a bogey by Smith would see Herbert move two clear and retain that gap to the finish.
Herbert used the frustration of a missed birdie putt on nine to get his mind back into focus. “That was a bit of a wake-up call,” the big Victorian told Golf NSW.
“It was a kick in the arse to get things going on the back nine. I would have liked to have made that one there and extended the lead going into the weekend … but there’s not much you can do. I had a couple of good breaks out there so I’m not going to get too caught up in that.”
Herbert made an important par-save on 15 after hitting a hidden rock in the bunker, then found the green in two on 16 and made a long eagle putt, forcing a three-shot swing against Smith.
“(The putt) on 16 was a bit of a momentum swing,” he said.
“I could have easily two-putted both those (15 and 16) and it’s a different conversation. I’m very grateful they went in.”
New Zealand’s Josh Geary, Victorian Matias Sanchez, Gold Coaster Dillon Hart and NSW’s Corey Lamb are just one behind Smith in a share of 3rd place.
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Smith and Herbert boost NSW Open’s appeal
Cam Smith in action during Wednesday’s Pro Am – image David Tease Golf NSW
The Challenger PGA Tour of Australasia returns this week with the staging of the NSW Open at the Murray Downs Golf and Country Club, the event being taken to regional NSW for the second consecutive year following the event being held at Rich River in early 2023.
After missing out on a place in the 2023/2024 Australasian Tour schedule, given it was played early in the 2023 year, the event is back in its rightful place as a significant tournament on the schedule.
The participation of two of Australia’s now best players, Cameron Smith and Lucas Herbert adds substantially to the standing of the event and will attract arguably greater interest than has been the case in the last twenty years or so.
Smith and Herbert are both now heavily involved in LIV Golf events but that tour’s scheduling has freed up their availability for events such as this and the recent Queensland PGA Championship, Herbert, though, playing his first non-LIV Tour event since the USPGA Championship in May where he made the cut but finished midfield.
Smith finished an impressive 6th at the Masters in April. Still, other than the recent Queensland PGA Championship, where he finished 3rd, the last non LIV Golf event he played was when missing the cut at the Open Championship in July.
Herbert is a three-time DP World Tour winner and a winner on the PGA Tour while Smith’s great career to date includes three Australian PGA Championships, the 2022 Open Championship, a Players Championship and the Sentry Championship (PGA Tour’s Tournament of Champions) and reaching the #2 position in the world.
Despite their current world ranking, which has blown out due to being unable to play world ranking events for most of the season, the pair are recognised amongst Australia’s best and will be a welcome boost to the event.
The balance of the field consists of those involved in most of the early season events of the 2024 / 2025 PGA Tour of Australasia including recent winners and exciting future prospects for Australian golf, Jack Buchanan, Elvis Smylie and Phoenix Campbell.
The tournament’s prizemoney has increased to $800,000 from the $400,000 it carried when last held in March of 2023.
The Murray Downs Golf and Country Club is located near the Murray River and is just a short drive from the Victorian town of Swan Hill, its closest population centre.
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67 year old Langer brilliant but Alker wins season long Schwab Cup
He might have fallen victim to yet another stunning performance by the 67-year-old Bernhard Langer at the Charles Schwab Cup Championship but New Zealand’s Steve Alker wrapped up the season-long Schwab Cup points race by sharing second with Australian Richard Green this week and topped that Championship for the second time in three years.
Langer broke the hearts of both Alker and Green when he holed a 35-foot curling left to right for birdie at the final hole to win by one at the Phoenix Country Club, Green’s final round of 65 appearing to give him a great chance of claiming a first PGA Tour Champions title but it was not to be.
Alker might have failed to successfully defend the Charles Schwab Cup Championship after winning it twelve months earlier but, by taking the season long title for the second time in three years, he earns another US$1 million in addition to the US$276,000 for sharing second with Green this week and the US$2.447 million he has in earnings for the season.
“Yeah, very special,” said Alker when asked to describe his feelings. “You win one and you go, well, can I do another? It’s a season-long race, there’s a lot of golf to be played and the competition’s getting better, so to have No. 2 is pretty special.
“The support’s been amazing, to have a home game. It would be nice to win it all today, the whole lot, but hey, I’ve got the Schwab Cup and that’s important to me.
Alker is a resident of the Phoenix area, and he is tremendously proud of his accomplishments in his adopted home city.
“Yeah, extra special because friends and family are here, you’re sleeping in your own bed. It kind of feels like there’s a little bit of extra pressure maybe with everybody out, friends and family, what we’re playing for, going for No. 2. You win it, you win a lot, so that was the goal for the week. And I was defending champ, too, so there were extra bonuses there if I did win.”
For Langer this was his 47th victory on the PGA Tour Champions since joining the tour for the over 50’s in 2007 and winning for the first time just a few events into his career at this level.
Langer has won at least one event in each of the 18 seasons he has played the Champions Tour.
“Winning never gets old,” said Langer when asked how special the win was after such a long career. “People say why am I still playing. Well, this is why, because I enjoy the adrenaline, I enjoy being in the hunt and I still feel like I can win and be there on the leaderboard.
“I’ve just proven that again becoming the oldest winner again and again out here. It’s been great to compete against these guys.”
Richard Green has finished the season without a win but with five runner-up finishes and many other impressive performances, he has accumulated US$2.168 million.
The Victorian left-hander produced a final nine of 30 to come from five shots off the pace at the turn to nearly claim his first victory. It has been a great season for the 53-year-old, who is in his second season on the PGA Tour Champions.
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