ST. LOUIS — Y.E. Yang compelled a playoff with a 6-foot par putt for a 5-under 66 and made a 10-foot birdie putt on the primary further gap in opposition to Bernhard Langer to win the Ascension Charity Traditional on Sunday for his first PGA Tour Champions title.
The 67-year-old Langer, who has a report 46 senior titles, was attempting to win for the 18th consecutive season on the 50-and-older circuit and almost did. He hit a shot out of the tough to fifteen toes on the 18th gap at Norwood Hills and made birdie for a 64.
Yang’s par putt despatched them to a playoff at 13-under 200.
Again to the 18th, Langer pulled his tee shot into the bunker and adopted with a hybrid to about 15 toes. However his birdie try stayed on the excessive aspect of the opening, organising Yang to ship his successful putt.
The 52-year-old Yang is finest recognized for being the one participant to beat a 54-hole deficit in opposition to Tiger Woods in a significant when he received the 2009 PGA Championship at Hazeltine.
“PGA was a very long time in the past,” mentioned Yang, in his third yr on the PGA Tour Champions. “At the moment may be very particular.”
Lacking from the playoff was Stewart Cink, going for his second straight win on the PGA Tour Champions after capturing the newest event at The Ally Problem. Cink hit the inexperienced in two on the par-5 fifteenth and two-putted for birdie to take the lead.
Cink nonetheless led Yang and Langer by one shot going to the seventeenth. However he despatched his drive effectively to the proper and couldn’t hit the inexperienced. His chip up the slope stopped about 12 toes quick, and Cink’s par putt rimmed across the cup.
Yang hit wedge into 4 toes for birdie, and the two-shot swing gave Yang the lead going to the 18th. Cink hit right into a greenside bunker and couldn’t birdie, closing with a 67.
