As Bernhard Langer steps onto Augusta National one last time for the 2025 Masters, the golfing world bids farewell to one of the most remarkable careers the game has ever seen. Now nearly 68 years old, and fully recovered from an Achilles surgery that sidelined him from the 2024 tournament, Langer remains not just relevant, but elite on the Champions Tour. His farewell Masters isn’t just ceremonial — it’s another chapter in a career defined by endurance, discipline, and excellence.
Still a Force at 67
Even after major surgery in 2024, Langer returned in form, finishing T5 in the most recent Champions Tour major — his second top 10 in a senior major this year. With 51 top-10 finishes in majors on the Champions Tour, Langer continues to post numbers most 50-somethings on tour can’t match.
And yet, he’s 67.
Langer is a 12-time major champion on the Champions Tour and holds an unmatched 47 total titles and $36 million in earnings on the Senior tour — both by far the most in the tour’s history. Even more impressively, he won the 2024 Charles Schwab Cup in November 2024, post injury despite missing much of the season . His 2023 season? He finished third in the standings, still outpacing nearly every other player on tour.
The Greatest Champions Tour Player Ever
Let’s be clear: Langer hasn’t just been good. He has dominated senior golf like no one before him. Here’s a look at his performance in the Charles Schwab Cup standings:
Year
Rank
Age
2024
injured
67
2023
3
66
2022
7
65
2020–21
1
63/64
2019
4
62
2018
1
61
2017
1
60
2016
1
59
2015
1
58
2014
1
57
2013
1
56
2012
1
55
2011
1
54
2010
1
53
2009
1
52
2008
1
51
From age 51 to now, Langer has redefined what senior golf greatness looks like.
A PGA Career Worth Remembering
Before his dominance on the Champions Tour, Langer was already a legend. He reached world No. 1, won two Masters titles, and built a reputation as one of the game’s most methodical and consistent performers. Augusta National has given him a rare and fitting platform to extend his relevance far beyond the typical expiration date for pro golfers.
Since turning 55, he’s made 6 of the next 9 Masters cuts, including a T8 in 2014. He’s logged four top-30 finishes in that span — better than many younger players with full-time PGA Tour status.
His ability to contend on golf’s grandest stage in his 60s is extraordinary. Even Jack Nicklaus and Tom Watson — legends in their own right — had only occasional late-career 50 something flashes. Langer? He sustained it into his 60’s.
A Personal Reflection
I’ve played DraftKings golf since it debuted in 2015, and every Masters I’d stare at the bottom of the salary list and think: Langer. And more often than not, he rewarded in that span. He wasn’t going to win — but he was going to make the cut, maybe even sneak into the top 20. In 2020 he was the oldest man ever to make a cut, and in 2016 he started the 4th round in 3rd place.
That’s the magic of Bernhard Langer: not just that he continued to compete, but that he could still beat golfers at their peak for a weaken. A T24 at The Open in 2018. A made cut at the 2020 RBC Heritage. Even as he shot his age — and sometimes better — Langer was still dangerous.
One Last Walk at Augusta
As Langer prepares for his final competitive walk around Augusta National, there’s a certain poignancy in the moment. The sport is younger, longer, louder now. But Langer reminds us of something older — a mastery rooted in rhythm, discipline, and quiet confidence.
This week isn’t just a farewell — it’s a celebration of his post PGA career as well. He remains one of the top senior players in the world at 67, which in itself is almost unfathomable for a tour that favors the “young” who only qualify at 50 and typically many are still competition on the PGA Tour and dominate early transitioning.
Legends don’t always get the sendoff they deserve. But Augusta — the site of his greatest triumphs — feels like the perfect place for Langer’s curtain call.
And from this fan, just one thing to say: Danke, Bernhard.
