Team Bernhard Langer beats Team Tiger Woods for 6th PNC Championship title

The Woods family collapsed a agelong drought Sunday astatine the PNC Championship, but the astir celebrated family successful play is still searching for the winner’s circle.

On the par-3 spread astatine Ritz-Carlton Golf Club, Charlie Woods smoothed a 7-iron from 176 yards that took 1 hop and rolled correct into the cup for an ace.

The play world went chaotic arsenic the younger Woods accomplished thing his 15-time major-winning father, Tiger Woods, hadn’t done successful title successful 26 years, during his 3rd twelvemonth connected the PGA Tour. It was Charlie’s first hole-in-one successful his full play profession astatine the same arena wherever he made his first profession eagle 4 years agone successful 2020.

Team Woods kept rolling aft that. The first-round co-leaders aft a 59 Saturday, kept making birdies. They vanished pinch a 57 Sunday and a record-setting 36-hole people of 28 under, but successful the extremity it wasn’t enough. Team Bernhard and Jason Langer besides vanished astatine the aforesaid people and Bernhard, the past to putt successful the first playoff hole, conscionable coiled successful an eagle putt to hit the Woods’ and triumph their 2nd consecutive PNC Championship.

Charlie’s hole-in-one and the Langer’s triumph were portion of a chaotic last information astatine the PGA Tour Champions-sanctioned arena that was dubbed the “greatest time successful PNC Championship history” by NBC’s Dan Hicks. Shortly aft Charlie’s ace, Paddy Harington, boy of three-time awesome victor Padraig Harrington, besides made an ace astatine the 8th hole. The 2 aces were conscionable the 2nd and 3rd successful the 27 editions of the tournament.

The Woods’ playing partners Sunday and defending champions, the Langers pulled into shares of the lead 3 times connected Sunday, but could ne'er return the outright lead distant from squad Woods. The pairs kept matching each different changeable for shot, matching birdies connected the aforesaid spread 9 times, and answering Charlie’s hole-in-one connected No. 4 pinch an eagle connected the par-5 5th.

Both teams parred the 17th spread and birdied the 18th spread aft the Langers missed an eagle putt from conscionable disconnected the green.

That sent them backmost to the 18th wherever Charlie Woods and Bernhard Langer, deed it astir successful the aforesaid position arsenic regulation. Tiger Woods deed their attack conscionable correct of the greenish while Jason Langer — playing from 20 yards person acknowledgment to dada Bernhard playing astir 50 yards farther up than Charlie — deed his attack 20 feet near of the spread successful the halfway of the green.

Team Langer has now won a grounds six PNC Championships pinch Jason now having won 4 times while relative Stefan — who caddied for Jason — has won twice.

It was Tiger Woods’ first tourney since missing the trim astatine the Open Championship astatine Royal Troon. He did not play 2 weeks agone astatine the Hero World Challenge, the kindness accumulation arena he hosts successful the Bahamas, saying his crippled wasn’t crisp and revealing he underwent a sixth backmost room successful September.

But notably, Tiger Woods decided to locomotion this without the assistance of a play cart for the first clip since his 2nd quality astatine the event, little than a twelvemonth aft his February 2021 car crash. Since the arena is tally by the PGA Tour Champions, competitors are allowed to return a cart.

The triumph was besides a full family arena for Team Woods arsenic Tiger Woods had 17-year-old girl Sam Woods caddying for him for the 2nd consecutive year. Woods’ ex-wife Elin Nordegren was besides seen onsite astatine Ritz-Carlton Golf Club watching the action.