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Golf's intricacies push likes of Langer and Guan on similar path

Golf is often regarded as a sport that reflects life’s complexities, where it tests your skills, perseverance and inner strength. If successful, it is a game that can be played for decades and reward those who excel at the highest level.

In contrast, the sport also serves out stark reminders as to how fragile and challenging life can be, and it often calls on human resilience and sheer determination to shine through adversity.

Germany’s Bernhard Langer, who at 67 years young is a winner of 124 tournaments around the world, and Chinese-Australian Jeffrey Guan, who turned pro a year ago, offer glimpses as to how our Royal and Ancient sport may be the very fabric that shape the lives of those who dedicate themselves to the game.

From his maiden professional triumph in 1980, the evergreen Langer has shown he is built as sturdy and performance-driven like those fine cars that his country is so famous for. He is the second-most winningest golfer on the DP World Tour with 42 wins, including two Masters titles, and as he pushes towards 70, the grandfather of four is showing no signs of winding down on the fairways.

On PGA Tour Champions, a circuit for players age 50 and above, he continues to show an insatiable appetite to keep winning against men much younger than him. That, too, despite requiring surgery earlier this year to repair a torn Achilles on his left heel following a pickleball mishap.

The German maestro was in his element at the season-ending Charles Schwab Championship earlier this month, firing three brilliant rounds that matched his age or lower en route to a 47th victory on PGA Tour Champions. His latest triumph extended his streak of winning at least once in each season for the past 18 years, and prolonged his proud record as the oldest winner in Champions history.

“Winning never gets old,” Langer responded when asked what motivates him to push his body to maintain a high level of fitness. “People say why I am I still playing … well, this is why, because I enjoy the adrenaline, I enjoy being in the hunt and I still feel like I can win. You need to have the drive and discipline to put the work in.”

While Langer cements his legacy, on the opposite

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