In the longest playoff in the history of the Senior Open Championship, US golfer Mark Wiebe won his first title at Royal Birkdale on Monday morning.
The Links, Constance Belle Mare Plage
He beat German Bernhard Langer, a two-time Masters champion, at the fifth extra hole of a sudden-death playoff.
Wiebe, the eighth American winner, said he was “speechless”, continuing: “£I just was luckier today and last night than Bernie I guess. I also feel like Bernie has won, what, a couple hundred tournaments. He’s won so many, I feel like this was my turn.”
David Frost, winner of MCB Tour Championship 2012, also played well and finished 3rd in the tournament.
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