Trio of Masters champions together with legend ‘struggling to stroll’ will miss Augusta

The Masters has been hit by a number of blows.

Bernhard Langer during his farewell appearance at the Masters

Bernhard Langer throughout his farewell look on the Masters (Picture: Getty Photographs) This text accommodates affiliate hyperlinks, we are going to obtain a fee on any gross sales we generate from it. Study extra

The checklist of absent Masters legends from the Augusta area continues to develop following the high-profile withdrawals of Tiger Woods and Phil Mickelson. Bernhard Langer, who claimed the title in 1985 and 1993, made his farewell look at Augusta final 12 months, regardless of acknowledging earlier than the event that “strolling remains to be troublesome” after an Achilles tendon tear.

He stated: “I am not 100 per cent and perhaps I by no means will likely be, however strolling remains to be troublesome. So I have been driving a cart for probably the most half – effectively, strolling 18 holes. I can stroll, I am okay strolling 9 holes, however then I get slightly fatigued and stiff and all that type of stuff. It is nonetheless a course of making an attempt to get higher in that division. I am hoping to play nice, and I’ve to play nice to make the reduce as a result of the course is so lengthy for me that nothing however nice will do it.”

Langer went on to place in a commendable show throughout his Augusta swansong, narrowly lacking the reduce. Whereas the German is not going to characteristic on this 12 months’s competitors, he’s anticipated to attend the distinguished Champions Dinner, which will likely be hosted by defending champion Rory McIlroy.

Elsewhere, two-time main champion Collin Morikawa is a health doubt for the Masters as a result of a again grievance that compelled him to withdraw from final month’s Gamers Championship after only one gap.