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Bernhard Langer threw the javelin with his club. He threw his ball into the woods.
We’ll write that again.
Bernhard Langer threw the javelin with his club. He threw his ball into the woods.
It still doesn’t sound accurate, does it? Langer – a two-time major winner, one of the greatest Champions Tour players and one of the nicest players you’ll ever meet – explode. the end of the sentence. Golf is undefeated. It takes no prisoners.
The sequence came on Thursday, during the first round of Regions Traditions, the first major tournament on the PGA Tour Champions circuit of the year. Langer was playing well. Through nine holes, he was three. In the third over, Langer had a 15-foot putt for birdie that would have given him a share of the lead.
left missed.
On the par-4 11th, he missed a 20-foot birdie putt to right. It would also have given him the lead.
In the fourth of the twelfth, he missed a 15-foot birdie putt to left. It would also have put him over the top.
Things were taking shape.
On 5/13, from the green, Langer missed 12 feet to Eagle. Then he missed about 3 feet for birdie. He put his left hand on his chin. square. it’s off. was confused. Go around the hole and make a par.
“Oh, oh,” said analyst Lanny Wadkins on the Golf Channel broadcast of the second putt. “It wasn’t a good hit from the start. It closed back in. Wow. That was…
“Shocking,” said analyst Robert Damron.
“It was—well, the clubhead locked up when it came back and it went straight left,” said Wadkins. “He’s trying to put it in right center hole. You don’t see that kind of bobbing in Langer a lot. Unfortunately for him, when you do, it usually leads to more of those.”
“Yeah, they reproduce, those bad shots,” Damron said.
“And that stroke was a little short,” Wadkins said. “So all of a sudden I started having daylight strikes.”
Then came the reason you are here.
Langer walked off the green slowly.
He took his broomstick with his right arm and threw it into the ground.
On the way to 14, he tossed the spectator’s rope.
Then he threw his golf ball into the trees.
“Oh, and there’s something you don’t see every day,” Wadkins said of the batsman.
Announcer Bob Papa said, “Wow, in the past 10 years that I’ve been a PGA Tour Champion, I don’t think I’ve seen Bernhard Langer throw a club.
“This may be the most upsetting thing I’ve ever seen,” Wadkins said.
As I’ve experienced sometimes, things can add up. Langer was not immune. He missed it twice more.
On the par-3 14, he hit an 8-foot putt, then missed.
On the 15th of the same month, Langer missed a 3-foot birdie. He had stabbed the slam dunk, and I went right.
“Oh nooooo,” Damon said on the broadcast.
“No. It was — I hate to say it, but I’ve seen this act before,” Wadkins said. “Bernhard has been through the ellipses in his career. Probably three times at least, and they have not been pretty. And he has changed the methods and mannerisms of putting as many or more than anyone else.”
“It’s kind of a shock because he only started three holes early,” Baba said.
“When you have problems setting things up, you just go with all the confidence in the world and make it all up,” Wadkins said. “Trust is a fragile thing. And it only takes someone so bad as to hit a bar 5 to completely break it. And that seems to have happened.”
From there, through his final three holes, Langer took four shots. recovered.
For par 4 16, he made 18 inches for par. The stroke was strong. He had a relieved look. On the par-3 17th, after hitting a tee into the left green side dugout, he made a 6-footer for par. At age 18, Langer was hitting a fielding from 50 feet, making a second from about a yard out.
He finished with three under 69s, and no gigs. He came back on Friday and shot a par 72.
“Well, we’ve always talked about Langer being one of the best correctors on the course,” Papa said after the 15th hole. “We’ve seen that over the years when he’s been struggling with hitting shots. He always seems to find a way back in. When you put yourself right, it’s a little bit different.”
“That’s something different, yeah,” Wadkins said.