The German golfer is not going to be enjoying on the Masters this yr as he continues to battle with an Achilles tendon damage.
The previous Masters winner is not going to return to Augusta Nationwide this yr (Picture: Getty)
Bernhard Langer has confirmed he is not going to be collaborating within the Masters in April attributable to ongoing severe well being issues. The German golfer admitted that “strolling continues to be tough” earlier than his ultimate spherical at Augusta Nationwide in 2025.
The 68-year-old turned skilled in 1972 and continues to grace the fairways to at the present time. Langer gained his first Masters in 1985 by two strokes and secured his second inexperienced jacket in 1993 with a four-shot benefit over Chip Beck. Talking forward of his final Masters look final yr, the seasoned golfer admitted an Achilles tendon tear in 2024 disrupted his efficiency and continues to impression him. He stated: “So I am not getting in there with a mindset of successful anymore, that prepare has handed.
“However attempting to nonetheless carry out and present some good pictures and hopefully be there on the weekend. To get again to the place I used to be and I at all times thought I might come again, it was only a matter of when and the way.”
Discussing his difficulties on the course, Langer added: “So it was a protracted and hard course of. It nonetheless is. I am not one hundred pc and perhaps I by no means will probably be, however strolling continues to be tough. So I have been using a cart for probably the most half – properly, strolling 18 holes.
“I can stroll, I am okay strolling 9 holes, however then I get just a little fatigued and stiff and all that sort of stuff. It is nonetheless a course of attempting to get higher in that division. I am hoping to play nice, and I’ve to play nice to make the minimize as a result of the course is so lengthy for me that nothing however nice will do it.
“I am coming in with two and three-irons the place the opposite guys are hitting nine-irons, on each gap, and that is simply arduous to compete.”
The German gained two Masters titles between the Nineteen Eighties and Nineties (Picture: Getty)
Sadly, Langer missed the minimize in 2025 and won’t characteristic this yr. The final time he reached the ultimate spherical was in 2020, when he completed tied for twenty ninth.
Langer’s health stays an ongoing problem however the golfer acknowledges he has not contemplated retirement. When questioned whether or not he had a selected age in thoughts for stepping away, he stated: “No, I by no means had a quantity in thoughts.
“I at all times stated the three issues that must be in place, initially, I’ve obtained to be wholesome to swing the membership the way in which I wish to swing it. Secondly, I’ve obtained to benefit from the sport and have a need, and definitely I must be in competition or enjoying at a stage the place I am not ending within the backside third of the sphere each week.
“I’ve at all times stated, if these three issues are nonetheless there, if I’ve the will, the well being and the success, I in all probability will proceed to play the Champions Tour. When one or two of these items go away, then it is in all probability time to stop enjoying.
Langer is presently nonetheless hitting the golf green (Picture: Getty)
“Clearly if I am not wholesome, I am unable to play in any respect. If I haven’t got some success, I’ll not get pleasure from it as a lot, after which it is time to pack it in, too.”
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Langer continues to excel on the senior {golfing} circuit, securing 12 main championships since becoming a member of the tour in 2015. His most up-to-date victory was in November 2024 on the Charles Schwab Cup Championship.
He completed 14th on this similar event in 2025 and most lately tied for sixth place on the Cologuard Traditional final weekend.
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