{"id":492781,"date":"2025-10-12T05:16:09","date_gmt":"2025-10-12T05:16:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/492781\/"},"modified":"2025-10-12T05:16:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-12T05:16:09","slug":"germans-alex-cejka-bernhard-langer-dueling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/492781\/","title":{"rendered":"Germans Alex Cejka, Bernhard Langer dueling"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A pair of Germans stand first and second with one round to go at the <a href=\"https:\/\/golfweek.usatoday.com\/story\/sports\/golf\/champions\/2025\/10\/10\/pga-tour-champions-regular-season-finale-2025-sas-championship\/86589343007\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">SAS Championship<\/a>, a PGA Tour Champions event being played at Prestonwood Country Club in North Carolina.<\/p>\n<p>Alex Cejka holds a three-shot lead over fellow countryman Bernhard Langer. On a day where most players struggled, Cejka fired a 6-under 66 void of bogeys in the second of three rounds at Prestonwood.<\/p>\n<p>Cejka started his round with four straight pars before making birdie on No. 5, eagle at the par-5 seventh and another birdie at the eighth. After eight consecutive pars, he capped off the stellar outing with back-to-back birdies on Nos. 16 and 17 to put himself three strokes clear of the field.<\/p>\n<p>But chasing him will be Langer, one of golf&#8217;s living legends, who&#8217;s in search of his first win this year. The 68-year-old from Anhausen, Germany, has at least one win in every season he&#8217;s played since joining the PGA Tour Champions in 2007. A win Sunday would mark his 48th.<\/p>\n<p>With just four events left on the schedule after this week, he&#8217;s running out of time in 2025.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I would love to have a win, but hey, life goes on whether I have one more or one less, and one more year or not. There&#8217;s no extra pressure,&#8221; Langer said Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Langer didn&#8217;t find success Saturday quite to the level of Cejka, who turned in the best score of the day by a long shot, but he still managed to card a 2-under 70 and put himself in solo second place with 18 holes remaining.<\/p>\n<p>Charlie Wi sits in solo third at 4 under, one shot ahead of a three-way tie for fourth between Retief Goosen, Steven Alker and Robert Karlsson.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A pair of Germans stand first and second with one round to go at the SAS Championship, a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":492782,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5310],"tags":[14234,55361,2000,299,1824,2826,12,14233,2632,5179,5185,10524,58690,5180,79,6924,15973],"class_list":{"0":"post-492781","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-germany","8":"tag-carolina","9":"tag-champions","10":"tag-eu","11":"tag-europe","12":"tag-germany","13":"tag-golf","14":"tag-news","15":"tag-north","16":"tag-north-carolina","17":"tag-overall","18":"tag-overall-positive","19":"tag-pga","20":"tag-pga-tour-champions","21":"tag-positive","22":"tag-sports","23":"tag-sports-news","24":"tag-tour"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115359500447516892","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/492781","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=492781"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/492781\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/492782"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=492781"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=492781"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=492781"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}