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Bernhard Langer ‘the gold standard’ for PGA Tour Champions? What about Hale Irwin?

By Gary Baines – 11/29/2021

How soon they forget.

That was my reaction earlier this month when I saw a tweet from the folks at PGA Tour Champions.

In the wake of Bernhard Langer winning the season-long Charles Schwab Cup competition for the sixth time, the tweet read: “Bernhard Langer is the gold standard” before listing his career senior tour totals in the categories of earnings, seasons leading the money list, Champions wins, runner-up finishes, top-10s and Schwab Cups (a competition which began in 2001).

They were all extremely impressive numbers, and Langer seems like a wonderful guy who’s deserving of loads of accolades. 

But when I look up “gold standard” on the dictionary of my handy-dandy laptop, the definition that comes up in this sense of the words is “the best, most reliable, or most prestigious thing of its type.”

So, being a sports writer based in Boulder who has spen