Bernhard Langer News

Nick Price says his putting is consistent. Same for Andy Bean about his driving.

Here is Larry Mize, an Augusta, Ga., native who was the 1987 Masters champion and is a participant at this week's 3M Championship at TPC Twin Cities in Blaine: On whether he knew when he won the Masters that he would never top that accomplishment : "Pretty much, I knew right then.

The annual PGA Champions Tour stop comes to the Twin Cities this week. The 17th 3M Championship gets under way Monday with the first of four pro-am days before the 54-hole, no-cut tournament begins Friday morning.

It's an opportunity to get up close and personal with some of the all-time greats.

THIS morning, Easter Sunday, Bernhard Langer will be attending church. Same as last year.

British golfer Nick Dougherty drives off during the final of the BMW Open 2009 in Eichenried, Germany, on Saturday.

Rory McIlroy fired a third round of three-under-par 69 on Saturday at the BMW International Open in Munich.

Another Champions Tour event, another strong performance from Joey Sindelar. The Horseheads resident shot a third-round 68 on Sunday to finish tied for 10th with an 11-under-par 205 at the Dick's Sporting Goods Open at En-Joie Golf Club.

Click here for live leaderboard! Click here for clubhouse scores! England's Nick Dougherty birdied the first three holes and joined South African Retief Goosen out in front on 17 under par at the BMW International Open in Munich.

Photograph: Stuart Franklin/Getty Images Bernhard Langer's attempt to become the oldest winner in European Tour history remained on track after he finished his third round at the BMW International Open in Munich - not far from where he grew up - in second place only two shots behind the South African Retief Goosen.

BERNHARD LANGER admits he would love to be Ryder Cup captain again when he is 61.

Paul McGinley plays his tee shot on the ninth hole yesterday in Munich. - EUROPEAN TOUR ROUND-UP: TWO MONTHS away from his 52nd birthday Bernhard Langer comfortably got the better of 20-year-old playing partner Rory McIlroy in the first round of the BMW International Open in Munich yesterday.

AT THE age of 51, with more than a quarter of century of golf behind him all around the world, Bernhard Langer must have seen it all.

The U.S. Open -- and the major championships in general -- are no longer simply the domain of American golfers.

It was like meeting an old friend who had fallen on hard times but is now spruced up and smarter than ever.

NOT only was Nick Faldo Britain's most successful golfer during the Eighties and Nineties, it's also reasonable to argue that between 1987 and 1996 he was, for the most part, the best player in the world.

As a 12-year-old, Kevin Lawrence first ventured from his home in the tiny hamlet of Bethpage, N.Y., past the ominous sign on the first tee warning would-be golfers what dangers lay ahead on the Black course and set out on the first of "many hundreds" of rounds there, well before the USGA figured out it might just be the greatest U.S. Open venue ...

Augusta State All-American Henrik Norlander dropped a pair of matches Friday, but Europe edged the United States 13-11 for its second consecutive Palmer Cup win.

Austin, Texas a ' Leonard Thompson, a former Lumberton resident and professional golfer on the PGA's Legends tour, earned $26,400 at the Triton Financial Classic on Sunday.

Two-time Masters champion Bernhard Langer posted a 5-under 67 Sunday to win the seniors' Triton Financial Classic by six strokes at Austin, Texas.