The season of the PGA Tour Champions is still going on and this is the second week of the Charles Schwab playoff. This weekend, they are hosting the TimberTech Championship. In 2023, the event returns after being held for 17 consecutive years. The tour is being played at the Broken Sound Club, The Old Course, Boca Raton, Florida from November 3-5.

Veteran Bernhard Langer returns as the defending champion, hoping to make a second win. But before he steps onto the field, he has made sure to bust an important myth about golf.

Bernhard Langer depends on his skills to win in golf

The field for the TimberTech Championship 2023 is filled with players like Steve Alker, Ernie Els, Padraig Harrington, David Toms, Jerry Kelly, Y.E. Yang, and others. These names have decades of experience under their belt and have learned many tricks of the trade that help them deliver their best. 

Langer will be facing the seasoned golfers this week, and to get ahead of them, he will be relying on his skills rather than tactics of the mind. Disagreeing with the common golf phrase that golf is 90 percent mental, the two-time Masters champion has a different point of view to share. “If you say that you have no I.Q., I’m sorry. If you put two players together with the same level of technique and experience and capability then it becomes very much mental,” he said.

He continued, “Because what is going to differentiate those two guys who are playing at the very top of their game? But if I take you on tomorrow, I don’t know how good you are, but it doesn’t matter. You could be one of the best mental in the world, I could be the worst, and I’m still going to beat you out there just because of the different techniques we have, and the different experiences we have.”

The German player has been playing golf for many years now, and was among the world’s leading golfers throughout the 1980s and ’90s. After a great stint on the PGA Tour, he moved on to the PGA Tour Champions.

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Who are Langer’s opponents at TimberTech Championship?

With a prize purse of a whopping $2.2 million, this is tournament number two in the Charles Schwab Cup Playoffs. And the event has a few favorite players besides Langer who are likely to win. There is Padraig Harrington who is currently ranked at 9 in the Charles Schwab Cup rankings. Next is Ernie Els who is on 5th position in the standings, and has a total of twelve top-10 finishes in 2023.

Other names are Steven Alker and Stephen Ames who will all be giving Bernhard a tough competition. Will he be able to defend his title? We will find out on Sunday.

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