Bernhard Langer wins his 26th title on the Champions Tour

Bernhard Langer won the Chubb Classic on Sunday for his 26th PGA Champions Tour title, closing with a one-over-par 73 for a three-stroke victory in Naples, Fla.

Seven strokes ahead after opening with rounds of 62 and 66, the 58-year-old German star finished at 15 under 201 at TwinEagles. He also won in 2011 and 2013, was second in 2012 and tied for second in 2014.

Fred Couples had a 66 to finish second.

Langer completed his sixth wire-to-wire triumph. He’s third on the 50-and-over tour’s victory list, behind Hale Irwin (45) and Lee Trevino (29).

“Whenever you make a drastic change or a change of some sort, you never know,” said Langer, who used a long putter. “I’m 58 now, so if you look at the statistics, a lot of guys don’t win when they’re near 60. But I still think I have some good golf left in me and I’m glad the way I putted this week was probably better than I putted many weeks last year when I was anchored.

“That gives me hope that I can probably pursue with this style and still do very, very well.”

Using an approach of smart-aggressive, Langer was one over through 10 holes before making his first birdie on No. 11.

“I actually played extremely well starting off the first whatever, seven, eight holes, I hit a lot of quality golf shots,” he said.

Couples drew within two shots with a birdie on 17 and Langer’s bogey on 15. Couples had a three-putt bogey on 18, and Langer birdied 17 to push the margin to four. On 18, Langer put his second shot in the water and salvaged a bogey.

“Well, I played pretty darn well,” Couples said. “I haven’t played in a little while and I hit the ball very, very solid the whole week.

“I needed obviously a better round yesterday, that’s what kind of killed me.”

Schwartzel wins again in South Africa

Charl Schwartzel raced away from the rest of the field to win the European Tour’s Tshwane Open in Pretoria, South Africa, by eight shots as he closed with a seven-under 63 to finish 16 under par.

Schwartzel, who held a one-shot lead heading into the final round, had seven birdies and an eagle to cruise to victory and his second tour title this season. The former U.S. Masters champion finished with four birdies in his last seven holes for his runaway victory at Pretoria Country Club.

It delivered an 11th European Tour title for Schwartzel, who had ended a two-year drought on the tour by winning the Alfred Dunhill Championship in November. Eight of Schwartzel’s 11 wins have come in South Africa.

Schwartzel won from Denmark’s Jeff Winther, who closed with a 64 for second outright at eight under. Winther was the only non-South African in the top six, with Anthony Michael third at six under and Justin Walters, Richard Sterne and Dean Burmester tied for fourth another shot back.

Ko does it again in New Zealand

Unfazed by an earthquake just before she teed off, top-ranked Lydia Ko won the New Zealand Women’s Open in Christchurch for the third time in four years.

The magnitude 5.7 quake rattled the area about 10 minutes before Ko began play. She started the round on time and play wasn’t interrupted by the quake.

Ko closed with a two-under 70 for a two-stroke victory. The 18-year-old South Korean-born New Zealander finished at 10-under 206 at Clearwater Golf Club. She also won the national championship in 2013 and 2015.

England’s Felicity Johnson, South Korean amateur Hye Jin Choi and Denmark’s Nanna Koerstz Madsen tied for second. Johnson shot 67, Choi 69, and Madsen 70.

The event was sanctioned by the Ladies European Tour and Australian Ladies PGA.