Bernhard and Jason Langer gained the PNC Championship in dramatic trend.
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The Woods household broke an extended drought Sunday on the PNC Championship, however essentially the most well-known household in golf remains to be trying to find the winner’s circle.
On the par-3 gap at Ritz-Carlton Golf Membership, Charlie Woods smoothed a 7-iron from 176 yards that took one hop and rolled proper into the cup for an ace.
The golf world went wild because the youthful Woods completed one thing his 15-time major-winning father, Tiger Woods, hadn’t performed in competitors in 26 years, throughout his third 12 months on the PGA Tour. It was Charlie’s first hole-in-one in his complete golf profession on the similar occasion the place he made his first profession eagle 4 years in the past in 2020.
Workforce Woods stored rolling after that. The primary-round co-leaders after a 59 Saturday, stored making birdies. They completed with a 57 Sunday and a record-setting 36-hole rating of 28 beneath, however ultimately it wasn’t sufficient. Workforce Bernhard and Jason Langer additionally completed on the similar rating and Bernhard, the final to putt within the first playoff gap, simply curled in an eagle putt to beat the Woods’ and win their second straight PNC Championship.
Charlie’s hole-in-one and the Langer’s win have been a part of a wild remaining spherical on the PGA Tour Champions-sanctioned occasion that was dubbed the “biggest day in PNC Championship historical past” by NBC’s Dan Hicks. Shortly after Charlie’s ace, Paddy Harington, son of three-time main winner Padraig Harrington, additionally made an ace on the eighth gap. The 2 aces have been simply the second and third within the 27 editions of the event.
The Woods’ enjoying companions Sunday and defending champions, the Langers pulled into shares of the lead 3 times on Sunday, however may by no means take the outright lead away from workforce Woods. The pairs stored matching one another shot for shot, matching birdies on the identical gap 9 occasions, and answering Charlie’s hole-in-one on No. 4 with an eagle on the par-5 fifth.
Each groups parred the seventeenth gap and birdied the 18th gap after the Langers missed an eagle putt from simply off the inexperienced.
Charlie Woods makes hole-in-one at PNC — and response is priceless
That despatched them again to the 18th the place Charlie Woods and Bernhard Langer, hit it practically in the identical place as regulation. Tiger Woods hit their strategy excellent of the inexperienced whereas Jason Langer — enjoying from 20 yards nearer because of dad Bernhard enjoying practically 50 yards farther up than Charlie — hit his strategy 20 toes left of the outlet within the heart of the inexperienced.
Workforce Langer has now gained a file six PNC Championships with Jason now having gained 4 occasions whereas brother Stefan — who caddied for Jason — has gained twice.
It was Tiger Woods’ first event since lacking the reduce on the Open Championship at Royal Troon. He didn’t play two weeks in the past on the Hero World Problem, the charity exhibition occasion he hosts within the Bahamas, saying his recreation wasn’t sharp and revealing he underwent a sixth again surgical procedure in September.
However notably, Tiger Woods determined to stroll this with out assistance from a golf cart for the primary time since his second look on the occasion, lower than a 12 months after his February 2021 automobile crash. For the reason that occasion is run by the PGA Tour Champions, opponents are allowed to take a cart.
The win was additionally a complete household occasion for Workforce Woods as Tiger Woods had 17-year-old daughter Sam Woods caddying for him for the second consecutive 12 months. Woods’ ex-wife Elin Nordegren was additionally seen onsite at Ritz-Carlton Golf Membership watching the motion.
