Bernhard Langer’s caddy means 3 words. Then comes the visor toss

Another putt.

It’s easy! Especially on Sunday, when Bernhard Langer was doing it everything the putts. A 50-footer on the 2nd at Phoenix Country Club. A 20-footer on 3. 15-footer 4. 25-footer 9. 20-footer 13. He couldn’t miss. He advanced during the final round of the Charles Schwab Cup Championship, the season-ending event of the PGA Tour Champions, a 50-and-over group tour.

But golf, as we well know, is fickle. It’s like a roulette wheel, in that any success you’ve had in previous holes won’t show up in the next one. Langer may know this better than most. He’s successful – two-time Masters winner, More wins than anyone – and he’s been around for a long time. In his 67 years, the list of things he has never experienced is shorter than a gimme.

Interestingly, the one thing that didn’t check was Charles Schwab’s victory, and he was going on Sunday until golf did its thing. On the 17th, he had questionable aggression on the ball near the tree, hit it, and coughed up the entire gain two strokes behind the bogey. On the 18th, a par-5, Langer connected a shot to the left, drilled into some trees, and then chipped in 30 feet. He needed that to go down, and Steven Alker missed, to win – and continue his incredible streak. Langer had won 17 straight years on the Champions circuit, but, after missing an extended period earlier this year with a torn Achilles, he was ruled out for his 18th campaign.

Hope to continue with these types of things. He wants to win. Obviously, he knew where he stood.

Terry Holt, his old friend, also seemed to understand.

He silenced the chatter now swirling around his expert with three words.

They are at the top of this article.

“I said to him when we finished the putt: One putt,” said Holt, in an interview with the Champions’ social media team.

“I mean he turned off the lights this week, one of his best weeks ever. Cover the tables for a week on the green. And I just hit another putt.

“And he did.”

Is he.

“That’s fun, folks.”

That is something, no doubt. Afterward, however, Langer admitted he was unsure about the putt. He said he felt he was taking the right line, but he wondered about the speed. “It did exactly what it was supposed to do and disappeared,” Langer told reporters. “Then all hell broke loose emotionally, so it was brutal, yeah.” He also believed that winning answered a question close to him.

“People say why am I still kidding,” said Langer. “Well, that’s 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 just proved that again, I’m an old winner over and over again out here. It was great to compete with these guys. Like you said, it never gets old.”

Another putt, indeed.

“Terry, my caddy, after we got back here, he says, ‘One more putt,'” Langer said during an interview with the Golf Channel.

“You are a prophet, I think.”