BMW INTERNATIONAL OPEN

Local hero Langer starts final round

only two behind leader Goosen

FROM THE AOL GOLF NEWS SERVICE

Bernhard Langer's 16th attempt to become the oldest winner in European Tour history might just be the one when he finally does it.
The 51-year-old German goes into Sunday's final round of the BMW International Open in Munich - not far from where he grew up - in second place, only two behind South African star Retief Goosen.
If he does go on to take the 75th victory of his professional career Langer, pictured above, will look back on the 16th hole of his third round on Saturday as a key moment.
After driving into the trees on the reachable par-4, the double Masters champion, five times a runner-up in this event without ever winning it, chipped far too strongly but then sank a birdie putt of around 70 feet.
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Playing his first event in Europe for over nine months, Langer, now the leading money-winner on the US Champions (Seniors) Tour, had seven birdies in all for a 65 that took him onto the 15-under-par mark of 201.

The age record he is trying to break is that of Ireland's Des Smyth, who was 48 when he captured the 2001 Madeira Islands Open.
This is the one Tour event in his home country that Langer has never won, but only two years ago he was second to Swede Niclas Fasth - and that after starting with a 76 and surviving the halfway cut with nothing to spare.
"This is as close as I could get to winning at home and it would mean a lot," he said. "It would also be very special with my son Stefan on my bag. We have only one more tournament together before he goes off to college.
"I'm at a stage where I just want to enjoy my golf. I don't want to grind any more and I don't have anything to prove - I've been very blessed."
Goosen, who has led since his opening 64 on Thursday, shot 67, but should have been even further in front. He missed a putt of barely a foot on the long sixth and closed with a bogey 6 after finding a bad lie in a fairway bunker.
England's Nick Dougherty went in the water off the 18th tee - it has troubled him all week - and by also taking six fell into a tie for third on 14 under with Scot David Drysdale.
THIRD ROUND TOTALS

Par 216 (3x72)

199 Retief Goosen (Rsa) 64 68 67
201 Bernhard Langer (Ger) 68 68 65
202 David Drysdale 70 64 68, Nick Dougherty 69 65 68
203 Soren Kjeldsen (Den) 68 65 70, James Kingston (Rsa) 67 69 67
204 Paul Broadhurst 69 70 65, Graeme Storm 70 70 64
205 Felipe Aguilar (Chi) 69 70 66, Rafael Echenique (Arg) 68 69 68, Thomas Levet (Fra) 68 67 70
206 Miguel Angel Jimenez (Spa) 69 67 70, Danny Willett 67 68 71, Pelle Edberg (Swe) 71 69 66
207 Gary Orr 70 70 67, Shiv Kapur (Ind) 71 66 70, Anders Hansen (Den) 69 69 69, Magnus A Carlsson (Swe) 73 68 66, Maarten Lafeber (Ned) 67 70 70, Louis Oosthuizen (Rsa) 69 69 69, Peter Lawrie 69 68 70, Rory McIlroy 71 67 69, Richard Green (Aus) 71 68 68, Bradley Dredge 72 69 66
208 Marco Ruiz (Par) 73 67 68, Scott Strange (Aus) 70 68 70, Phillip Price 67 72 69, David Lynn 67 70 71, Peter Hedblom (Swe) 70 69 69, Oliver Fisher 68 69 71
209 Gary Lockerbie 72 68 69, Jean-Baptiste Gonnet (Fra) 70 70 69, Stephen Dodd 68 69 72, Andrew Coltart 67 71 71, Fabrizio Zanotti (Par) 72 69 68, Gregory Bourdy (Fra) 67 71 71, Shiv Shankar Prasad Chowrasia (Ind) 69 70 70, Thongchai Jaidee (Tha) 69 66 74
210 Anthony Wall 74 66 70, Richard Finch 66 71 73, Jarmo Sandelin (Swe) 68 71 71, Markus Brier (Aut) 69 71 70, Klas Eriksson (Swe) 70 71 69, John Bickerton 70 70 70, Johan Edfors (Swe) 71 69 70
211 Robert Jan Derksen (Ned) 69 71 71, Chris Wood 71 69 71, Luke Donald 70 68 73, Steven O'Hara 71 70 70, Chinnarat Phadungsil (Tha) 69 69 73, Richard Sterne (Rsa) 72 68 71, Seve Benson 70 71 70
212 Lee Slattery 70 70 72, Niclas Fasth (Swe) 67 73 72, Bernd Wiesberger (Aut) 70 70 72, Henrik Stenson (Swe) 68 72 72, Michael Hoey 70 71 71
213 Gary Murphy 71 70 72, Gareth Maybin 71 68 74, Max Kramer (Aut) 71 69 73, Colin Montgomerie 70 71 72, Scott Drummond 71 69 73
214 Hennie Otto (Rsa) 72 69 73, Gonzalo Fernandez-Castano (Spa) 69 71 74, Kenneth Ferrie 69 72 73, Marcus Fraser (Aus) 67 74 73
215 Joakim Haeggman (Swe) 72 67 76, Phillip Archer 69 72 74
217 Carlos Del Moral (Spa) 70 71 76
219 Michael Jonzon (Swe) 70 71 78, Barry Lane 68 73 78