A outstanding 50-year profession on the European Tour has come to an finish for German Bernhard Langer.
By Rob Willis
The curtain got here down on a European Tour profession spanning 50 years and 513 tournaments when Bernhard Langer performed his remaining DP World Tour occasion on the BMW Worldwide Open in his native Germany.
Langer, who started his skilled journey as a young person earlier than evolving into one of many premier gamers in world golf and was twice a winner of the US Masters, introduced his retirement from the DP World Tour (European Tour) after lacking the 36-hole reduce on the BMW occasion performed in Munich.
At 66 years of age, Langer teed it up in his 513th match in Europe, fittingly at a Golfclub München Eichenried venue which was only a 60-mile drive from his hometown of Anhausen.
In a celebrated profession, Langer claimed 42 victories in these 513 tournaments, two European Order of Benefit titles and performed on 10 Ryder Cup groups, to go together with his two wins at Augusta Nationwide.
Langer grew to become golf’s first World Quantity One when the Official World Golf Rating was launched in 1986, whereas his 42 wins makes him the second most profitable within the historical past of the European Tour, behind solely Spaniard Seve Ballesteros who received on 50 events.
Outdoors of Europe, Langer received 3 times on the PGA TOUR and is certainly one of simply 5 golfers to have received skilled occasions on all six continents the place golf is performed.
Since turning 50 and becoming a member of the senior ranks, Langer’s dominance is unparalleled, the German successful a document 12 Senior Main Championships and 50 titles in complete, together with a record-setting 46 victories on the PGA TOUR Champions.
