Article 6WK0Q Bernhard Langer keeps the faith right to the end of a classy Masters farewell

Bernhard Langer keeps the faith right to the end of a classy Masters farewell

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Andy Bull at Augusta
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Two-time champion said the tournament was instrumental in him becoming a Christian after missing the cut on Friday

You expect to find Jim Nantz waiting for the Masters champion in Butler Cabin on Sunday evening, but it must be a surprise to find God is in there with him, too. But, as Bernhard Langer explained after finishing his 136th and final competitive round at the Masters on Friday evening, apparently that's what happened to him when he won the tournament for the first time in 1985, back when it was Brent Musburger asking the questions on CBS. In one of the more extraordinary revelations, Langer told the press that he saw the light right by the side of the 18th green here at Augusta National.

I never mentioned it to the public but this tournament actually was very instrumental in me becoming a Christian," Langer said, in a somewhat incongruous reply to a question about the fact that he was the last man to win a major using a persimmon driver. Apparently the club went by the name the Last Supper", which must have been what got him thinking about it. I grew up Catholic, and I thought I was a Christian. But I basically used Jesus Christ in a very bad way in my first interview in Butler Cabin."

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