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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 . Langer is known to be a Devout Christian . 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 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
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