Round 3 Notebook: Outback Steakhouse Pro-Am

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Final Leaderboard: 1- Bernhard Langer (-9); T2 - Mark O'Meara and Mike Reid (-8); 4 - Tom Kite (-7); T5 - Nick Price, Dan Forsman and Keith Fergus(-6)

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• Bernhard Langer posted his 10th career title on Sunday in just his 51st career start on the Champions Tour. That is the eighth fastest to 10 victories all-time among Champions Tour players. Don January was the fastest, reaching 10 wins in just 26 starts, while Miller Barber won his 10th title in 31 starts. Hale Irwin, the all-time leader in wins with 45, is fourth (40th start) behind Gil Morgan (37 starts).

• Langer's 6-iron to five feet and subsequent birdie on No. 18 on Saturday proved to be the difference when the final round was cancelled on Sunday. His birdie gave him a one-stroke cushion over Mark O'Meara and Mike Reid at the close of play on Saturday.

• Langer's victory is his second in Florida this season. He claimed the Allianz Championship in February when he holed a 45-foot shot from the bunker to defeat John Cook in a one-hole playoff near his home in Boca Raton. Langer has now won three times in the state. His other Florida win came at the 2008 Ginn Championship at Hammock Beach.

• Langer earned $255,000 for the victory and also picked up 255 Charles Schwab Cup points. After six official events, Fred Couples leads the 2010 Charles Schwab Cup race with 931 points, but Langer closed the gap with the win and is now in second place with 734 points. Tom Watson remains third in the season-long race with 433 points. At the end of the official season, the player earning the most Charles Schwab Cup points will receive a $1 million payout.

• With his victory, Langer joins Fred Couples (three wins) as the only multiple winners on the Champions Tour in 2010. The only other player to win an event was Tom Watson at the MasterCard Championship at Hualalai. All six winners are former Masters champions.

• Langer's win was his first top-10 finish in this event in three appearances (T34 in 2008; T13 in 2009) and it also made him the sixth international winner of this event. Langer's win was also the ninth by a member of the World Golf Hall of Fame and the fifth in the last six years.

• Sunday's rain-shortened event marked the first time a Champions Tour event has been shortened to 36 holes due to weather since the 2009 Regions Charity Classic. This was also just the second event in tournament history shortened to 36 holes due to weather. The other came in 2005 when Hale Irwin was a one-stroke winner over Mark McNulty and Morris Hatalsky.

• Couples fell short in his quest for his fourth consecutive Champions Tour title. Couples was bidding to join Chi Chi Rodriguez as the only player to accomplish the feat, but finished T12.

• Langer and his amateur partner Rolf Klam (Niceville, Fla.) won the pro-am portion of the tournament by one stroke over the team of Peter Senior and Steve Hand (Tarpon Springs, Fla.). Langer and Klam posted a 36-hole total of 20-under-par 122.

• Defending champion Nick Price earned his fourth consecutive top-10 finish of the year after finishing T5.

• Five months after left shoulder surgery for a torn bicep tendon, Tom Kite had his first top-10 finish of the season in his fourth start. Kite finished fourth overall.