Fred Couples won the Champions Tour’s Toshiba Classic this past weekend for his second in a row. That’s two wins in three starts; he finished second to Tom Watson in the other.

It’s hardly fair. Couple can still compete on the regular Tour. Boom Boom is going to be the new Hale Irwin on that tour.

Champions Tour member Ken Green lost both is brother, and his girlfriend in an RV crash last week. Now it appears that he will lose his leg.

Green’s agent said that the damage to the right leg was so extensive that doctors will be forced to amputate below the knee.

Very sad.

More here.

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.