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Bernhard Langer

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The cover of Bernhard Langer's autobiography (2002).
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The cover of Bernhard Langer's autobiography (2002).

Bernhard Langer or Bernard Langer (born August 27, 1957 in Anhausen near Augsburg, Bavaria, Germany) is a German professional golfer.

Langer turned professional in 1972 and has won many events in Europe and the United States, among them The Masters in 1985 and 1993. He was the inaugural World Number 1 when the Official World Golf Rankings were introduced in 1986, and he became a member of the World Golf Hall of Fame in 2001. He ranks second in career wins on the European Tour, with forty and has also played regularly on the U.S. based PGA Tour, especially in the late 1980s and since 2000. He has shown great durability, finishing in a tie for fifth at The Open Championship the month before his forty-eighth birthday and holding a place in the top hundred of the rankings into his late forties. He was non-playing captain of the victorious European Ryder Cup team in 2004.

Through much of his career, Langer has battled the "yips", a term used to denote a strong tendency to flinch or twitch during putting. He has changed his grip on the putter numerous times in an attempt to cure this problem; while he has been mostly successful, this tendency has colored his career. Langer is remembered nearly as much for one particular missed putt as he is for his titles. In the 1991 Ryder Cup, Langer missed a five-foot putt that would have tied the Ryder Cup and allowed the European team to retain the trophy.

Langer has been married to his American wife Vikki Carol since 1984. They have four children: Jackie (b. 1986), Stefan (b. 1990), Christina (b. 1993), and Jason (b. 2000). They maintain homes in Langer's birthplace of Anhausen and in Boca Raton, Florida.

Langer is known to be a devout Christian.

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European Tour wins

PGA Tour wins

The Masters did not count as a European Tour event until 1997.

Other wins

Note: the German National Open Championship is a different event from the German Open listed five times in the European Tour wins section. That event was open to all comers, German and non-German. The German National Open Championship is "open" to German golfers whether they are amateur or professional.

Results in major championships

Tournament 1976 1977 1978 1979
The Masters DNP DNP DNP DNP
U.S. Open DNP DNP DNP DNP
The Open Championship CUT DNP CUT DNP
PGA Championship DNP DNP DNP DNP

Tournament 1980 1981 1982 1983 1984 1985 1986 1987 1988 1989
The Masters DNP DNP CUT DNP T31 1 T16 T7 T9 T26
U.S. Open DNP DNP CUT DNP DNP CUT T8 T4 CUT T59
The Open Championship T51 2 T13 T56 T2 T3 T3 T17 70 80
PGA Championship DNP DNP DNP DNP DNP T32 CUT T21 CUT T61

Tournament 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999
The Masters T7 T32 T31 1 T25 T31 T36 T7 T39 T11
U.S. Open CUT CUT T23 CUT T23 T36 DSQ CUT CUT DNP
The Open Championship T48 T9 T59 3 T60 T24 WD T38 CUT T18
PGA Championship CUT CUT T40 CUT T25 DNP 76 T23 DNP T61

Tournament 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006
The Masters T28 T6 T32 CUT T4 T20 CUT
U.S. Open CUT T40 T35 T32 DNP T33 DNP
The Open Championship T11 T3 T28 CUT DNP T5
PGA Championship T46 CUT T23 T57 T66 T47

DNP = did not play
DSQ = disqualified
CUT = missed the half way cut
"T" indicates a tie for a place.
Green background for wins. Yellow background for top-10.

See also

External links


Official World Golf Rankings | World No. 1's in men's golf since 1986.
Severiano Ballesteros | Fred Couples | David Duval | Ernie Els | Nick Faldo | Bernhard Langer | Tom Lehman | Greg Norman | Nick Price | Vijay Singh | Tiger Woods † | Ian Woosnam
† Tiger Woods (USA) is the current World No. 1, and has spent most weeks in that position, currently over 390.

 

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