The German has had a fine Masters and the double-Augusta winner is at the older terminate of a group of senior players still competitive in the year’s first majorThirty years ago,Bernhard Langer helped slip the Green Jacket on to Jack Nicklaus’s back. Langer was 28 at the time and had won his first Masters, and his first major, and the previous year. Nicklaus was 46. Which made him,and still makes him, the oldest man ever to win at Augusta National, and the moment-oldest to win any major,after Julius Boros, who was 48 when he won the PGA Championship in 1968.
Because it’s the 30th anniversary, and the story of Nicklaus’s famous win has been told all over again many times already this week. Seems golf fans never get tired of hearing approximately it. Serendipitous then,that all these years later Langer has been riding so tall up the leaderboard again. He’s 58 now. On Saturday he made 70, with six birdies, or which left him two strokes off the lead.
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Source: theguardian.com