The two-time Masters winner bids a tearful farewell and officially retires… details below.

Bernhard Langer, who won the Masters twice, won 42 tournaments on what was once called the European Tour and set a record 46 wins among players over 50, lived his experience for the first time after 52 years as a professional. He said he wasn’t sure how to react. After all, Langer said he’d never said goodbye to golf.

“It’s going to be very emotional,” the 66-year-old told the DP World Tour website.

Of course it will. Despite the game suggesting otherwise, he is human, albeit perhaps otherworldly, perhaps robotic.And on Friday, at the Munich Eichenried Golf Club in Munich, Germany, about 45 minutes from where Langer grew up, things got very, very bad. Earlier, he said that this week, the BMW International Open will become its last on the European road, after 512 previous departures, and after the cycles of 71 and 73, Langer missed the weekend in three shots.

After that, he released his visor 18, and the believers welcomed. He embraced his playing partner, fellow German Marcel Siem, who in turn embraced his playing partner Martin Kaymer, also a fellow German. They followed him. The runger succumbed to the thumb’s thumb. He gave the waves. He kissed. He praised his family and friends. He signed a card. Then they asked him what this tour means to him and what he thought the week would be like and what happened.

“It’s hard to put into words,” he told the Golf Channel cameras. “Well, it was kind of a dream for me growing up in a village of 800 people where no one knew what golf was, and when I told my classmates I was going to go golfing, they thought I was crazy and thought I was a golfer or a mini-golfer or something. So people had no idea. And it was a really strange situation, even when I left school and I was trying to become a professional golfer, people didn’t even know what it was, somehow it didn’t exist. not even as a profession, so it was very difficult. difficult. , but it was my dream.”