Langer holds on for 10th senior crown

Two-time Masters champion Bernhard Langer won a record 10th senior major title yesterday, cruising to a three-shot victory at the Senior Open Championship.

Langer hit a one-over par 72 in the final round at a blustery Royal Porthcawl to finish four under.

The German’s former Ryder Cup foe Corey Pavin was Langer’s closest rival, but bogeys on the 13th and 15th holes scuppered the American’s hopes of a comeback.

Langer’s triumph pulls him clear of Gary Player’s nine senior major wins and puts him top of the senior major champions list. It is also the 59-yearold’s third success this year after the German prevailed at the Regions Tradition and Senior PGA Championship.

Langer gave the chasing pack hope by dropping two shots early on the last day, but Fred Couples, Billy Andrade and Peter Lonard, who finished joint third on level par, could never close the gap.

“It’s pretty neat to do something that nobody else has done before,” Langer told reporters. “Like winning 10 senior majors, it’s not easily done.”

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South Korea’s Lee Mi-hyang staged a remarkable comeback to win the Ladies Scottish Open.

Lee sat 39th and nine shots off the lead coming into the weekend but the 24-year-old posted 68 and 66 to finish sixunder par at Dundonald Links in Ayrshire. Karrie Webb looked on course for victory when she eagled the 14th for a two-stroke lead but the Australian bogeyed the 16th and double-bogeyed the 17th, allowing Lee to snatch victory.