Bernhard Langer turned 50 in August 2007 and played five times on the PGA Tour Champions, missing out on the Charles Schwab Cup Championship. That was the last time the season finale was held and the two-time Masters champion was not around.
Langer, 69, finished 45th in the Schwab Cup and did not qualify for the 36-man field at Phoenix Country Club next week. He registered only two top 10s in his last 14 starts dating to April. Langer did not play in last week’s event in Arkansas because it would have been four in a row.
“I still have goals to win tournaments and to finish as good as I can week after week. I still enjoy competing,” he said at the Furyk & Friends event in Florida last month.
Things going on around the world the last time Bernhard Langer wasn't in the field @SchwabCupFinale:
— PGA Tour Champions (@ChampionsTour) November 4, 2026
- The first iPhone was less than five months old
- @Instagram hadn't been invented yet
- The reigning @TheMasters champion was 31-year-old Zach Johnson
- The reigning Champion… pic.twitter.com/yJN3TLNaoR
Langer has a record 47 wins on the PGA Tour Champions, with six Schwab Cup titles and 12 senior majors.
This was the first year since he turned 50 in 2007 that he failed to win on the PGA Tour Champions or the Legends Tour in Europe.