Oldest Winners Ever on the Champions Tour
The Overall Record-Holder: Bernhard Langer, Age 64
In 2021, Bernhard Langer became the first 64-year-old to win on the Champions Tour. In 2022, he broke his own record as oldest Champions Tour winner by winning again. It won't be surprising if before long his name is the only one that appears on the list below.For now, Langer's record stands at 64 years, 5 months, 23 days. That's how old he was when he won the 2022 Champions Tour Chubb Classic on February 20, 2022. Langer shot his age (64) in the first round, then added a pair of 68s in the 54-hole tournament. He won with a final score of 16-under 200, three strokes better than the second-place golfer. It was Langer's 43rd career win on the senior circuit.
Langer first broke the record as oldest Champions Tour winner at the 2021 Dominion Energy Charity Classic, where he became the first 64-year-old to win on the tour. Langer's victory in that tournament happened in a playoff.
When Langer moved to the top, he displaced the previous record-holder, Scott Hoch. The Champions Tour had listed Hoch as it's oldest-ever winner, even though Hoch himself felt he didn't deserve the record. In 2019, at age 63, Hoch won the Bass Pro Shops Legends of Golf. But that was a team tournament in which Hoch partnered Tom Pernice Jr. It was also a tournament played on a par-3 course.
Because of those facts — team tournament, par-3 course — Hoch said he didn't feel like it should count as the record: "It's a team event. It's great that I won, but I don't think you can compare that to an individual win."
But, Hoch's protests to the contrary, the Champions Tour did, in fact, count Hoch as the tour's oldest-ever winner. The debate over whether Hoch's team win in 2019 really should count for the record was rendered moot when Langer took over the top spot at age 64.
The List of Oldest Champions Tour Winners
These are the golfers who've won at age 62 and older:
- Bernhard Langer: 64 years, 5 months, 23 days, 2022 Chubb Classic
- Bernhard Langer: 64 years, 1 month, 27 days, 2021 Dominion Energy Charity Classic
- Scott Hoch: 63 years, 5 months, 4 days, 2019 Bass Pro Shops Legends of Golf at Big Cedar Lodge
- Mike Fetchick: 63 years to the day, 1985 Hilton Head Seniors Invitational
- Jay Haas: 62 years, 10 months, 7 days, 2016 Toshiba Classic
- Gary Player: 62 years, 9 months, 22 days, 1998 Northville Long Island Classic
- Bernhard Langer: 62 years, 6 months, 3 days, 2020 Cologuard Classic
- Mark O'Meara: 62 years, 1 month, 18 days, 2019 Cologuard Classic
