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Bernhard Langer (born August 27, 1957) is a German
professional golfer.
Langer was born in Anhausen near Augsburg, Bavaria,
Germany. He turned professional in 1976 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 regaining
a place in the top hundred of the rankings three
months before his fiftieth birthday. He played on 10
Ryder Cup teams (1981, 1983, 1985, 1987, 1989, 1991,
1993, 1995, 1997, 2002) and was non-playing captain
of the victorious European 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,
Stefan, Christina, and Jason. They maintain homes in
Langer's birthplace of Anhausen and in Boca Raton,
Florida. Langer is known to be a devout Christian.
