Augusta, Georgia – End YIPS – the inability to make even short boats – professional golf players’ functions.
to Bernhard LangerBring him to his knees.
“These were the most difficult times in my life, in my life in the golf,” said Langer, 67, who will play this week in his forty -first masters. “I had YIPS on four different occasions. It seems that it is all seven years for some reason, not recently, thank God.”
Its depths came in 1989 in The Buick Invitational in Detroit, after his first Master’s victories, when he missed the reduction despite hitting 17 Greens in the organization on Thursday and 16 on Friday. His position was so shaky, to the point that it was for the 11th front.
He said: “I went back to my hotel and literally got my knee.” “I was already a believer at the time, and I said a prayer like God, if you want to do with this game, I am ready to give up.
A friend was praying with him and said: “I don’t think he did with you yet.”
Not a mile. Lancer will not continue to win the National Ugosta again in 1993, but he continued to become the largest player in history, with 12 major major championships and at least one victory in each of 18 years in his upper tour.
The citizen of Germany considers these green jackets the height of his success, and his voice trembled with passion on Monday after watching a master’s degree highlighting a video of himself in the media center hall.
Bernhard Langer celebrates after winning the second masters title in 1993.
(Ed Rink / Associated Press)
He said: “It was an incredible journey for a young man born in a village consisting of 800 people in an area where the golf game was not, to make it here.” “To get an invitation to play the professors [the] For the first time when it was very difficult for European or international players to have an invitation, then win the first in the third -term masters was just a dream that became true. It is incredible. “
Langer, as in the shape and youth as a half -life player, was absent last year after suffering from a torn Achilles tendon while playing pickled ball in Boca Raton, Florida, where he lives.
Four years ago, when the Master’s degree was moved to November in the Kofid’s pandemic, Langer, 63, became the oldest player ever. It may not seem, but the age is attached to it.
“The training course passes long and became shorter and shorter,” he said. “I hit the hybrid as other children hit 9 iron and 8 iron, and perhaps even pegs. So I knew that I wouldn’t be in competition anymore.
A few years ago, I asked the club president, “Is there a time limit? Are we time when we are sixty years old? He said, “No, you will know when it’s time to resign.
That day came.
He said, “It is time to resign.” “I am no longer able to compete in this course anymore. We are playing, 7,500 yards, and I am used to playing the courses about 7100. I can still compete there, but not at this distance.”
Bernhard Langer strikes from a warehouse to the third green during the last round of the PNC championship in Orlando, Florida, in December.
(Villan M. Sonk / Associated Press)
Any of those distances diminishes compared to the distance he reached from his youth in the small hotzin, Germany, which is an agricultural village where his father was a catalyst for motorcycles.
The golf game was a strange and mysterious pursuit of a German child at the time, and Langer said that there were only 100 rides or so in the country at the time. His older brother was a box in a path about eight miles from the family’s home, and he followed his steps. When he was a young man, Bernhard was riding his bike to the cycle, spending days withdrawing the golf bags that were as long as it was.
He said: “I would like to say that I fell in love with money first.” “As a box, I was getting money when he was 9 years old. It was great.”
In the 2019 article for GOOLF Digest, remember Langer waiting to work with other Caddies in a small shed, sit on a seat and stare for hours in the switching sequence of Jack Nickelus.
“For years, I did not know who was Jack, Arnold Palmer, or Bin Hujan.” “There was almost no golf game on TV, and there are no golf books and a very small number of golf magazines. Golf was a small sport.”
However, it did not take, though, to develop the love of the game that competes at least his love for the money that lines its pockets.
He said: “We were able to practice a little chips and chips and hit the balls on a scale if there are no members to Caddy.” “We could not buy golf clubs, but one of the members ignored some of his old sticks. They already had bamboo shafts. It was of wood 2, 3 iron, iron 7 and a beaten with a bent column. So I always say that this is where the problems of my situation came.”
He can laugh now. But at different points throughout his career, his issues were threatening professionally. The most famous was lost, and ID 6 feet in the 1991 Rider Cup on Kiaa Island. He burned the right edge, half its match with Hill Irwin and giving the United States a narrow victory. This broke a line that the Europeans won in 1985 and 87 and linked them in 89.
Bernhard Langer celebrates after winning the PNC championship in December.
(Villan M. Sonk / Associated Press)
“It was destroyed because I left my team mates,” Langer wrote in his article in Golf Digest’s article. “The following week was the German Master, a championship that helped her. In the last hole, she faced 15 feet to enter a separate match. There were two votes in my head. The other voice said,“ The past is not related;
“The second sound should be with a louder voice, because I made the bot, then I defeated Rodger Davis in the qualifiers. Since that time, I managed to calm the first voice.”
Langer, who almost all the style of his career tried to calm this voice. However, because it is likely to be reminded of a lot during his final appearance, his success speaks loud enough for everyone to hear.
