Bernhard Langer

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May 21^th 2012
Alvaro Quiros a fine fifth at World Match Play Championship

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May 14^th 2012
Geoff Ogilvy an impressive 12th at “THE PLAYERS”

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May 07t^h 2012
Bernhard Langer shines with another top 5 finish

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April 30^th 2012
Miguel Ángel Jiménez shines with season’s best performance

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Winner Charles Schwab Cup 2010

Profile

Date of birth: August 27^th1957
Birthplace: Anhausen at Augsburg
Nationality: German
Interests: skiing, football, cycling, all sports
Turned professional: 1976

The exeptional golfer from Anhausen is one of the world’s best golf players and the person who made golf popular in Germany. He was junior world champion back in 1979.

He has won 79 international tournaments so far, including two victoriees at the world´s most prestigious tournaments, the Masters in Atlanta on the U.S. PGA Tour. In 2001, Langer was inducted into the World Golf Hall of Fame, and in 2006 he was appointed an Honorary Officer of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire by Queen Elisabeth II. Furthermore, in 2008 and 2009 he won the Champions Tour Title “Player of the Year”. Langer’s most recent success in the year 2010 is the win of the Allianz Championship in his adopted home of Florida.

Along with Severiano Ballesteros, Nick Faldo, Sandy Lyle, and Ian Woosman, Bernhard Langer is one of the “Big Five,” a group of world-class golfers who were all born within 12 months of one another, have won at least one major tournament, and have enabled Europe to hold its own against the United States in the Ryder Cup.

Awards

• Winner of the German Federal Cross of Merit
• "European Tour Golfer" of the Year in 1985 and 1993
• Winner of the "Golden Compass" media prize in 1999
• First number 1 in the new world rankings launched in 1986
• Five Star Professional Award in 1999
• Member of the World Golf Hall of Fame since 2001
• PGA Professional of the Year 2001
• Nominated for "World Comeback of the Year" in 2002 (Laureus Award)

• Appointed to be an Honorary Officer of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (honorary OBE) by Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II in 2006GC 2010

  Career highlights

• 2 Majors: US Masters 1985 and 1993
• 5 Ryder Cup wins as a player: 1985, 1987, 1995, 1997 and 2002)
• 1 Ryder Cup win as captain: 2004 (with a record score of 18.5 - 9.5)
• More than 70 wins worldwide
• 42 wins on the European Tour since 1980
• Champions Tour Titel "Player of the Year" 2008 and 2009
• Winner of the Allianz Championship at Broken Sound