He won last year's Senior Open championship by 13 shots and after course record tying rounds of 65 65 -12 Bernhard Langer leads this Senior PGA by 4 going into this weekend at this hilly, tight tree lined Belmont course in the outskirts of Boston, a course Jesper Parnevik declared as a "Bernhard Langer type of golf course"
“That's German engineering,” Parnevik said of Langer. “He never breaks down. He’s tough to beat at a place like this. He’s so systematic.”
At 57, Langer's fitness is legendary but he is without a victory this year in which he’s been slowed by injuries.
However those are now well behind him and this week he’s looked much like the player that dominated this tour and won this event and four others and if he wins this week it would be his 24th Champions Tour title and he'd also be the first repeat winner of the Senior Players since Arnold Palmer in 1984-85.
Out of form Russ Cochran also shot 65 to sit alone in second, while former US Open winner Steve Pate, one of the few pro golfers playing with a yellow ball, set a course-record with a bogey-free 63 to move into a three-way tie for third six shots back with the Lee Janzen and Parnevik who shot 66.
Canadian scores: Rick Gibson T23 70 70, Rod Spittle T50 73 71, Jim Rutledge T65 78 70..
Bryan (notes from BBC Reuters AP)
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