Kenny Perry sank a 15-foot putt on the final hole to hold off a late charge by Bernhard Langer and win the 22nd annual 3M Championship. Langer closed a four-stroke gap on the back nine with a run of five birdies on his first six holes on the back nine. He added another at 17 to move into a tie with Perry at 22-under going to 18. Playing one group in front, Langer saw his chances slip away when his second shot nearly went in the hazard just off the green. With an awkward lie, he knocked it out to 30 feet and had to settle for par. Perry made it interesting on the final hole. He hit his second under the skyboxes, and after getting a drop, he chipped from off the green to 15 feet and drained his winning putt. Perry finished with a 7-under 65.

Final-round notes from the 3M Championship

• Hale Irwin bettered his age for the third consecutive day when he finished with a 4-under 68. The 69-year-old Irwin shot rounds of 68-66-68 and became the first player to better his age three times in a Champions Tour event since Gary Player at the 2009 Mitsubishi Electric Championship at Hualalai.

• Hale Irwin finished T9, his first top-10 finish of the year and the 210th of his career, which is a Tour record. It was his first top-10 finish since the 2013 Mitsubishi Electric Championship at Hualalai.

• With three consecutive rounds in the 60s at the 3M Championship, it marked the first time Irwin had posted three rounds in the 60s in a 54-hole event since the 2010 Mitsubishi Electric Championship at Hualalai.

• With his victory, Kenny Perry claims his second win of the 2014 season (he won the Regions Tradition) and also wins for the seventh time in his career. He earns a check for $262,500, which put him over the $1 million mark ($1,183,961) in season earnings for the third year in succession.

• With two wins in 2014, Kenny Perry becomes the third multiple winner on the Champions Tour, joining Bernhard Langer and Colin Montgomerie.

• Kenny Perry’s 54-hole total of 23-under 193 fell two strokes shy of the tournament mark of 25-under-par by David Frost in 2010, but it was the second-best 54-hole total in event history, matching R.W. Eaks total in 2008.

• Bernhard Langer nearly parlayed his 9-under 63 into his second win in as many weeks, but he finished one shy in his bid for his fifth win of 2014. Langer did earn $154,000 to push his 2014 earnings to $2,375,020. It was also Langer’s 16th runner-up finish on the Champions Tour as well as his 51st top-3 finish in 141 career starts and 10th this year in 15 events.

• Bernhard Langer also increased his lead in the season-long Charles Schwab Cup race by picking up 154 points. Langer now has 3,346 points and leads Colin Montgomerie by 355 points. Kenny Perry moved into third place with his win and now owns 1,495 points. Jay Haas is fourth with 1,480 and Jeff Sluman is fifth with 1,313.

• Despite falling one shot short of Kenny Perry, Bernhard Langer has now finished in the top 10 in 27 of his last 29 starts on the Champions Tour and 28 of 30 starts if you include this year’s Masters.

• Wes Short, Jr., made a final-round run at the tournament scoring record but his 10-under 62 fell one short of the record set in the final round in 2010 by that year’s champion David Frost. Short’s effort paid off. He jumped from T43 to T9 in the final standings.

• Marco Dawson, who at one point was tied for the lead on the front nine, finished T3 in his first appearance in this event. More importantly, his finish earned him a spot in the upcoming Dick’s Sporting Goods Open in two weeks as a top-10 finisher not previously exempt. Dawson had open qualified earlier in the week and it was his fourth top-10 finish in nine starts this year. He has now earned $421,461 this year and continues to move up the money list. He is now 22nd which will be critical for him for the reshuffle later this year.

• When D.A. Weibring withdrew earlier in the week, Gary Hallberg got a spot in the field. Hallberg took full advantage of his good fortune, finishing T9 and leaving with a check for $40,541.

• Paul Goydos finished T9 in his Champions Tour debut.

• Three weeks after losing in a playoff at the U.S. Senior Open to Colin Montgomerie, Gene Sauers turned in another stellar performance. Sauers finished T3 and was one of three players finishing at 20-under.

• Jeff Maggert tied the tournament record with 24 birdies for the three rounds, matching the number posted by R.W. Eaks in 2008. Bernhard Langer finished with 22. A total of six players had 20 or more birdies.

• Mark O’Meara birdied 10 of the 12 par-5 holes for the event, while Bernhard Langer made birdies on 15 of the 30 par-4s.

• The final scoring average for the tournament was 69.609 which was the lowest in tournament history. The previous low was 70.056 in 2008. There were 122 rounds in the 60s for the three rounds and 180 rounds were below par.