Langer wins on 7th extra hole; O'Hair earns trip to Masters

Bernhard Langer outlasted defending champion Jay Haas in the Toshiba Classic at Newport Beach, Calif., birdieing the final hole of regulation to force a playoff and winning with a birdie when Haas missed a 3-footer on the seventh extra hole.

Langer, the 50-year-old German star who won the 1985 and 1993 Masters, has two victories in nine career Champions Tour starts. Last October, he won the Administaff Small Business Classic in Texas in his fourth event on the 50-and-over tour.

After bogeying the par-3 17th to drop a stroke behind, Langer made a 12-foot birdie putt on the par-5 18th to force the playoff at 14-under 199. Haas closed with a 6-under 65, while Langer had a 69 on the Newport Beach Country Club course.

Scott Simpson (65), Ben Crenshaw (67) and Gary McCord (67) tied for third at 11 under, and Curtis Strange (66) and first-round Tim Simpson (70) were 10 under.

PODS Championship: Sean O'Hair took advantage of a stunning collapse by Stewart Cink to win the PODS Championship, closing with a 2-under 69 at Palm Harbor, Fla., to earn a trip to the Masters.

O'Hair hadn't won since the John Deere Classic his PGA Tour rookie season in 2005, butt he turned it around on the back nine of Innisbrook with a 30-foot birdie and a pair of par putts that were equally important, building such a margin that he could afford a bogey at the 18th for a 2-shot victory.

It was his first victory since the John Deere Classic as a 22-year-old rookie in 2005.

Cink had a 4-shot lead after two holes, still had control on the back nine, then dropped 4 shots in a four-hole stretch of the Copperhead Course at Innisbrook.