Will Bernhard Langer's amazing PGA Tour Champions streak come to an end in Phoenix?

PHOENIX — Say it ain't so, Bernhard Langer.

The king of the PGA Tour Champions, who has won a circuit-leading 47 times, needs to win a 48th in Phoenix this week or an amazing streak will end.

Langer, 68, has won at least once per year every year since he joined the tour in 2007. But he's winless through 27 events in 2025. There are 16 different winners this season, and Langer will need to be the 17th or his run is over.

A year ago, he won the final event of the year to make it 18 years in a row with a win.

The record for most consecutive seasons with at least one win on the PGA Tour is 17, held by Jack Nicklaus (1962-1978) and Arnold Palmer (1955-1971).

Langer's 47 circuit wins and 18 years in a row with at least one win are among the many amazing numbers he's posted.

By winning at Phoenix Country Club one year ago, it was the 25th different PGA Tour Champions tournament he has won.

En route to victory a year ago, Langer shot or beat his age in three of the four rounds in the Schwab Cup Championship, giving him 23 times to turn that trick. In 2025, he's gone and done that another 11 times, bringing his career total to 34.

He fell short of winning the season-long title and is out of the running this year, but he still leads the circuit all-time with six Cup titles. In fact, that's twice as many as the next guy on the list.

It's worth repeating Langer is 68, and, it's worth remembering he suffered a ruptured Achilles and missed seven events after surgery early in 2024.

The PGA Tour Champions all-money leader ($38,157,772) will tee it up on the circuit for a 376th time in 2025. Again, he has 47 wins but also 43 second-place finishes, 29 thirds, 156 top-5s and 237 top-10s. In other words, Langer has posted a top 10 in 63 percent of the Champions events he's started. He also has 11 senior majors titles.

But will he find victory lane before the curtains close on 2025?

Ahead of the U.S. Senior Open in June, Langer said something that could apply to pretty much any week of the season: "In golf, you never know. You find something very small, and all of a sudden we remember how good we can play. The body remembers when something clicks and feels good."

Editor's note: This story originally published on Nov. 11. After three rounds at the 2025 Charles Schwab Cup Championship, Langer is tied for third at 12 under. Steven Alker leads at 17 under and Stewart Cink is second at 16 under but Alker is within striking distance with 18 holes to go.