Super Senior

Miguel Angel Jimenez may have found that ’50 has come quickly but he sees no need to stop doing something he relishes

Bernhard Langer

Formidable Four: Players Who Just Got Better with Age

Bernhard Langer

The stats may suggest otherwise, but the German was arguably at his best towards his late thirties in an era when he was competing with a new brigade of young guns and courses that relied on greater power. Still able to compete at the highest level at the age of 57, which is frightening and inspiring.

Kenny Perry

Eleven of the Kentucky native’s 14 PGA Tour wins have come after hitting 40. He played his first Ryder Cup at the age of 44. At the age of 48 he almost became the oldest winner of the US Masters in 2009, but ended up losing a three-way play-off to Ángel Cabrera on the second extra hole.

Rocco Mediate

Enjoyed relative success in his early thirties, but his best golf came around the turn of his 40th birthday. His final win on the PGA Tour came in 2010 at the Frys.com Open at the age of 47. However Mediate is best remembered for his epic play-off battle with Tiger Woods at the 2008 US Open when, aged 45, he was just one 15ft putt away from sealing the most unlikely of Major wins.

Tom Lehman

Lehman was 37 when he won the Open in 1996. It was his third PGA Tour victory, and came only two years after his first, but a long 14 years after turning professional in 1982. Early-career failures would force Lehman to fight for his tour card in the late eighties by playing in Asia and South Africa.

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Written by Jeremy Elwood

Photography by AFP

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