After Bernhard Langer’s last putt at the Masters, the audience rose and applauded Germany’s golf icon. Fred Ridley, the chairman of the Augusta National Golf Club, received the 67-year-old green on the 18th. Then long hand in hand with his wife Vikki Carol ran along the trellis of the fans for one last time as a participant, who cheered him and celebrated him for his impressive performance on the legendary golf course in the US state of Georgia, but the Masters champion from 1985 and 1993 had given his chance to extend with the Major tournament. “A terrible one.” Ende “that Langer would fail because of this blow on the cut and would no longer compete at the weekend, the veteran didn’t know certain at the time – but he suspected. “I played really well today and just had a terrible ending, that hit me. But I didn’t know if I was running on track 18 for the last time or whether I’m still here tomorrow,” Langer told the broadcaster Espn.Am Friday evening (local time). In the end, the 67-year-old needed one blow too much and had to leave his loved golf course after rounds of 74 and 73 strokes. External content activate up to the 15th of the player was good that Langer would be able to compete with the two decisive rounds. But the veteran struck his ball into the water on the Par 5 with the third blow. In the end he needed seven blows on 15th hole. “It was very annoying. Otherwise I would be here this weekend,” said Langer after the round. “But that’s how it is with the Golf. It can be the most beautiful game, and sometimes it can be very brutal. It is a very narrow line.” Hunter creates the cut diving on the final hole for a failure. At the decisive putt to the par, his ball ran wafer -thin past the hole. Long stood after two days on three strokes over Par, which cut made all players with a maximum of two strokes on par – including Stephan Jäger from Munich for a long time, the tournament ended two days earlier when he had hoped – but the Swabian who has been living in the USA was still happily. “The last two days were special for me, even when I ran to the first discount yesterday, I got standing ovations and people really applauded me,” he said. “I almost came to tears and I almost started crying. Then I said to myself, pull you together, you have some golf here.” More about further ads had announced in advance to start the Major tournament at the Magnolia Lane for the last time. With his first Masters triumph 40 years ago, he suddenly moved Golf in Germany. In 1993 he again secured the legendary green jacket for the winner. In the future, Langer only wants to concentrate on the tournaments of the US senior tour. “This is really a fairy tale” “A lot of emotions have gone through my head, while the past two days when I ran the fairways,” said Langer. “I saw my wife, my four children, two of my grandchildren were here and supported me, friends from Germany, family from Germany. Even friends from all over the world ran a few lanes with me. That meant a lot.” With a view of his unique golf career so far, it became long sentimental. He would never have believed that he would ever play in America, live in America, marry an American, raise his children here and then win the world’s biggest tournament. “Yes, that’s really a fairy tale,” said Langer. Activate external content, so let go of the master’s way completely. “We make a documentary about my life. So it is a documentary that will be broadcast in Germany in a few months,” revealed Langer. “And this is the last part of it.” He wants to enjoy the remaining two tournament days in Augusta with his whole family. “We won’t be bored. It will be a good weekend either way,” promised Langer. During the tournament for Langer, the younger generation is going for everything for everything on Saturday and Sunday. Justin Rose from England is still in the lead before the weekend. After his strong 65 round at the start, he followed a 71 round on Friday. He has now a lead on Bryson Dechamea from the USA with eight strokes under par. Rory McIlroy played the best round of the day and, thanks to the only 66 strokes on the second day, improved to the shared third place. Like Corey Conners, he is under par at six and has two strokes behind Rose.
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