Langer takes SAS Championship
CARY, N.C. — Bernhard Langer ran away with the SAS Championship on Sunday to take the points lead into the PGA Tour Champions’ Charles Schwab Cup playoffs
Langer shot a bogey-free 7-under 65 for a six-stroke victory in the regular-season finale. The 61-year-old German star has 38 victories on the 50-and-over tour, also winning this year near Houston.
Langer finished at 22-under 194 for his second victory at Prestonwood Country Club, the tree-lined layout softened by heavy rain Thursday from Hurricane Michael.
Scott Parel was second, closing with a double bogey for a 65.
Jerry Kelly had a 68 to finish third at 15 under, and Lehman followed at 13 under after a 71.
Gene Sauers, tied with Langer for the secondround lead, shot a 75 to tie for fifth with Miguel Angel Jimenez (68) at 12 under par.
The top 72 players in the Schwab Cup standings qualified for the playoffs, the three-event series that begins next week with the Dominion Energy Charity Classic in Richmond. turning in another long birdie putt on the 9th for 31.
Two more birdies on the 10th and 16th followed, sandwiching his lone bogey at the 13th, before he birdied the final hole and celebrated with a fist pump.
First-round leader Bronson Burgoon shot a 68 to finish tied for second along with Emiliano Grillo and Chesson Hadley.
Thomas finished tied for fifth place -- after ending the final day with an 8-under 64 -- along with Gary Woodland (71) and Louis Oosthuizen (69).
Shubhankar Sharma, part of the trio of joint-leaders coming into this final round, faltered in the final round to finish tied for 10th after a par 72.
WALTON HEATH, England — Eddie Pepperell won his second European Tour title with a two-shot victory at the British Masters on Sunday and likely secured the even bigger prize of a place in next year’s Masters at Augusta National.
The Englishman shot an even-par 72 and held off his playing partner, Sweden’s Alexander Bjork (71), as the pair went to the 72nd hole at a wet and windy Walton Heath with Pepperell just a stroke in front.
Pepperell finished on 9-under 279.
Herbert Lucas (69) and Jordan Smith (73) were tied for third, another two shots behind Bjork.
English pair Sam Horsfield (69) and Tom Lewis (70) tied for fifth place along with American Julian Suri (74), one shot in front of tournament host Justin Rose (70).
The victory takes Pepperell into the world’s top 35 and almost certainly secures a first appearance at Augusta in 2019. The top 50 at the end of the year are guaranteed a place in the first major of the year in April.
Ryder Cup star Tommy Fleetwood (72) finished 2 under in a seven-way tie for ninth.
A top-two finish on Sunday would have seen Rose reach the top of the world rankings for the second time this season, the 38-year-old having spent two weeks as No. 1 in September.
Pepperell was ranked outside the top 500 as recently as May last year but won the Qatar Masters in February and followed a runner-up finish in the Scottish Open with a tie for sixth in the British Open seven days later, carding a closing 67 at Carnoustie despite saying he had a hangover.
INCHEON, South Korea — Local favorite In Gee Chun fired a 6-under 66 to win the KEB Hana Bank Championship on Sunday.
In, who started the final round two strokes off the pace, carded seven birdies against a lone bogey at the Sky 72 Ocean Course to finish at 16-under 272, three strokes ahead of Charley Hull who shot a 71.
No. 1-ranked Sung Hyun Park offset a pair of bogeys with five birdies for a 69 that left her tied for third with Ariya Jutanugarn (71), Minjee Lee (70) and overnight co-leader Danielle Kang (72).
Defending champion Jin Young Ko had eight birdies in a bogey-free round for the day’s lowest score of 64 to finish seventh.
Brooke Henderson struggled with the windy conditions and had a 71 that left her tied for 14th place.