Bernhard Langer says he’s out to win on the Champions Tour—a lot.:

“My goal is to dominate”

“If I don’t prepare, why am I here?” he said. “I expect my best 100 percent of the time in most things in life. I’m not going to do 30 or 40 percent in anything.”

Langer’s not kidding This past weekend, he won the Ginns Championship for his second Champions Tour victory in three starts. He now leads the Schwab Cup points.

Bernhard Langer apparently will make his debut on the Champions Tour this weekend.

Lets hope his stay last longer than Seve Ballesteros’

I’m taking this (almost) completely out of context, but in a recent interview Tom Watson called out what he calls the “Tiger Tour”:

“The regular tour is basically a Tiger Woods tour, and some people say that’s getting old,” Watson said. “But our tour doesn’t get old. Every year you have new names coming out. That makes it new and exciting. People will tune in to see how Seve Ballesteros does or to see how Mark O’Meara does. That gives us great viability.

The most important thing about our Champions Tour is that every year somebody of note comes out, usually more than one or two. That gives a new story every year about the tour.”

Watson was, of course, simply trying to hype the steady influx of new (and yet familiar) players onto the Champions Tour. But there’s definitely an edge in those comments.

This year, Gary Player will mark his fiftieth appearance at The Masters. He won the event in 1961, becoming the first non-American to do so. He won again in 1974 and 1978. In all, he won nine majors and 163 tournaments. He’s the only player to have won the British Open in three different decades.

Perhaps even more important in this day and age: he recently celebrated his fiftieth wedding anniversary just before the MasterCard Championship in Hawaii..

And then the 71 year old Player went out and shot two rounds of 69 in that event.

I had the pleasure of watching Player at this past year’s Ford Senior Open in Dearborn, Michigan. While long past his prime—even by Champions Tour standards—you still could see glimpses of the youth. I wonder if there’s ever been a golfer who maximized his skills as much as Player.

Seve Ballesteros—one of the most exciting players of the 1980s—is planning a comeback next year. He was apparently inspired by rounds of 74 and 77 at the Open Championship at Hoylake.

Don’t do it, Seve. Play in one last Masters, if you wish, and then go on the Champions Tour. I guarantee you will be welcomed there.