By John Strege
Bernhard Langer surely isn’t ageless, but neither does he appear to be ageing. Even as the years mount, so do the victories.

Langer, 61, won the Insperity Invitational for the fourth time on Sunday, a record fourth PGA Tour Champions victory after turning 60. It ran his streak of years with at least one senior win to 12, setting another record.

“He’s a freak, we all know that an aberration,” Langer’s friend Tom Lehman said. “There is that statistic that, once you get past age 56 or 57, whatever it is, the percentage of winning is quite low. I kind of see that. You play a lot of really good golf but you’re just a hair short. Maybe when you’re a little bit younger there’s that little extra edge you may have more with the focus and maybe with a little bit added length makes a difference.”

Yet Langer rolls on, unimpeded by the obstacle of time. Though it was only his first victory following a year with seven wins, he might be on the cusp of another stretch of dominant golf. Since tying for 38th at the Masters, Langer has tied for second twice (losing in a playoff each time) and posted his 37th senior win.

It will go down as a wire-to-wire victory based on his leading by three after a first-round 63 and by one after a second-round 72. Yet it was anything but routine on the Woodlands Country Club in Woodlands, Texas, on Sunday, even as he shot a two-under-par 70.

Langer bogeyed the seventh and eighth holes and found himself trailing Paul Goydos by four shots. But he holed a long birdie putt at nine to reverse course, eventually took the lead when Goydos bogeyed the 18th hole, then had to make a difficult par save to avoid a playoff with Goydos, Jeff Maggert and Bart Bryant.

At the par-4 18th with water fronting the green, Langer pushed his tee shot so far right of the fairway it was behind GolfChannel’s 18th hole booth. He opted to take relief right of the booth, then hit his second over the water and into the rough right of the green.

He hit an excellent pitch shot that rolled three feet past the hole, then made the par putt to win by one.

“It wasn’t just 18,” he said of his final-round issues. “It was really all day. Got off to a good start and then dropped a bunch. Then came all the way back from seven under to 11 under and got myself back in the lead.

“Then hit a bad tee shot at 18. Just came out of it. The tee box was a little uneven. I wasn’t happy with that. Anyway, bad shot. I got a good drop. I hit a reasonable [second] shot, then a great pitch shot and a good putt.

“I didn’t want to do three playoffs in a row,” he said. “I’m very very fortunate in the end to pull this off. I’ve got a lot more grey hair right now.”

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John Daly finished Sunday’s final round at the Insperity Classic with three consecutive bogeys, but that didn’t stop the 51-year-old from picking up his first PGA Tour Champions title. And doing it with plenty of flair.

First, there was the walk up to the 18th green — with the tournament still very much in play — in which he stopped to kiss the ground where Arnold Palmer’s logo had been painted:

Classy move. @PGA_JohnDaly kisses the Arnold Palmer umbrella painted on the 18th fairway at the @InsperityInvtnl. pic.twitter.com/0iYHF2xtSX

— PGA TOUR Champions (@ChampionsTour) May 7, 2017

Then, after tapping in for a one-shot victory over Kenny Perry and Tommy Armour III, he got doused with booze. Obviously.

A big win for Big John.@PGA_JohnDaly wins the @InsperityInvtnl for his first victory on PGA TOUR Champions. ? pic.twitter.com/bxTbhQQuTn

— PGA TOUR Champions (@ChampionsTour) May 7, 2017

And finally, in his TV interview, he gave a tremendous plug for one of his sponsors, Vertical Groove Driver. It was classic Daly, who made his senior debut at this event last year and who won for the first time since the 2004 Buick Invitational.

Oh yeah, we almost forgot those outrageous American flag pants. Well, outrageous for anyone not named John Daly.

But there was also plenty of emotion from the two-time major winner whose ups and downs have been well documented.

“A win’s a win . . . Thanks to Insperity and all these wonderful people. And all these people behind me sticking to me,” Daly choked up. “It’s pretty cool.”

You know what’s also pretty cool? The senior tour when John Daly is winning. After the celebration dies down, we’d love to see Daly become a regular on leader boards again.

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