Team Langer defeats Team Tiger Woods for the 6th PNC Championship title

The Woods family broke a long drought Sunday at the PNC Championship, but golf’s most famous family is still searching for the winner’s circle.

On the par-3 hole at the Ritz-Carlton Golf Club, Charlie Woods smoothed a 7-iron from 176 yards that took one hop and rolled into the ace cup.

The golf world went wild as the younger Woods accomplished something his 15-time winning father, Tiger Woods, hadn’t done in a tournament in 26 years, during his third year on the PGA Tour. It was the first time Charlie has been delayed in his entire golf career at the same event where he made his first eagle four years ago in 2020.

Team Woods continued to roll after that. The joint first-round leaders after Saturday’s 59, continued to make birdies. They finished Sunday 57th and a record 36 points 28 under, but in the end it wasn’t enough. The team of Bernhard and Jason Langer also finished in the same place and Bernhard, the last to putt on the first playoff hole, just bent the eagle putt to beat Woods’ and win their second consecutive PNC Championship.

Charlie’s victory and Langer’s win were part of a wild final round at the PGA Tour Champions-sanctioned event that was called “the greatest day in PNC Championship history” by NBC’s Dan Hicks. Shortly after Charlie’s ace, Paddy Harington, son of three-time major winner Padraig Harrington, also made an ace on the 8th hole. The two aces were second and third in 27 games of the tournament.

Woods’ teammates on Sunday and defending champions, Langers took the lead three times on Sunday, but were unable to lead the Woods team. The pair remained consistent for a shot, matching birdies on the same hole nine times, and parrying Charlie’s hole on No. 4 with an eagle on the 5th.

Both teams split the 17th hole and birdied the 18th hole after Langers missed an eagle putt just off the green.

That put them back on 18 when Charlie Woods and Bernhard Langer, hit it at about the same spot in regulation. Tiger Woods hit his approach just to the right of the green while Jason Langer – playing from 20 yards closer due to father Bernhard playing about 50 yards further than Charlie – hit his approach 20 feet to the left of the center hole and green space.

Team Langer has now won a record six PNC Championships and Jason has now won four times and his brother Stefan – Jason’s teammate – has won twice.

It was Tiger Woods’ first tournament since missing out on the Open Championship at Royal Troon. He did not play for the past two weeks at the Hero World Challenge, a charity event he hosted in the Bahamas, saying his game was not sharp and revealing that he had surgery on his sixth back in September.

But remarkably, Tiger Woods decided to walk this without the help of a golf cart for the first time since his second appearance in the event, less than a year after his car crash in February 2021. Since the event is run by the PGA Tour Champions, competitors are allowed to take a cart.

The win was also a complete family event for Team Woods as Tiger Woods has 17-year-old daughter Sam Woods who has made the tournament for him two years in a row. Woods’ ex-wife Elin Nordegren was also seen at the Ritz-Carlton Golf Club watching the match.

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