Eaks shot a final round 7-under 65 to win the Champions Tour 3M Championship, posting the lowest score in the tournament’s 16-year history to finish with a 54-hole total of 193, four shots better than Ed Dougherty’s finish in 2000. His total is the fourth-lowest score in the tour’s 29-year history.

“I never dreamed I could shoot that low,” said Eaks, who finished at 23 under. “I’ve had a chance to get in the 20s a couple of times and just could never get there.”

“I didn’t think you could go that low,” said Bernhard Langer, who tied Gary Hallberg for second at 17-under 199.

But it wasn’t easy down the stretch.

Eaks, who had one top-10 finish in 14 previous events he completed this year, led by as many as six on the front nine at the TPC Twin Cities, but back-to-back birdies by Gene Jones cut the lead to two on 14.

Eaks’ second shot on the par-4 15th went through the green, but he regrouped and chipped in out of the rough for birdie. He estimated the shot went 22 or 23 feet.

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