Golf's intricacies push evergreen Langer and Guan on similar paths

Golf is often regarded as a sport that reflects life's complexities, testing your skills, perseverance and inner strength.

- Chuah Choo Chiang

It also serves stark reminders on how fragile and challenging life can be, and often requires 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, are such examples.

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 victories, 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 in 2024 to repair a torn Achilles tendon on his left heel following a pickleball mishap.