I’ll be crying’ Golf legend confirms he will play The Masters one last time in 2025
Golf legend Bernhard Langer confirms the 2025 Masters will be his final competitive appearance at Augusta National in April.

Golf legend Bernhard Langer has confirmed in an interview with Garrett Johnston that he will tee it up in The Masters for the final time in his career in April 2025.

Langer, 67, revealed the update on the latest episode of Johnston’s popular Beyond the Clubhouse podcast.

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The German is eligible to still participate in The Masters at famed Augusta National as a result of being a past champion.

Langer has twice slipped on the iconic Green Jacket in his career following victories in 1985 and 1993.

He won by two shots in 1985 and by a more comfortable margin of four shots eight years later.

Those were Langer’s only two major wins in a career that has seen him win an incredible 124 times around the world as a professional.

Langer won 42 times on the European Tour, which puts him second behind Spanish late great Seve Ballesteros who won 50 times on the circuit.

He also won three times on the PGA Tour.

Arguably Langer’s most impressive career stat is having won a record 47 times on the PGA Tour Champions, the last of which came in November 2024 at the Charles Schwab Cup Championship aged 67.

But back to the top of the story and Langer has confirmed to golf journalist Garett Johnston that he will bid final farewell to Augusta National and The Masters in April.

The 2025 Masters Tournament takes place from 10-13 April.

Langer was unable to take part in The Masters earlier this season after recovering from a ruptured Achilles tendon that forced him out of the game for some time.

Scroll down for Langer’s comments about making the 2025 Masters his last…

“It will be very difficult,” Langer revealed on the latest episode of Beyond the Clubhouse.

“It will be emotional for me to say goodbye to the U.S. Masters as a competitor, especially with all of the family and friends I’m going to have there. I’ve got friends from Europe, Germany and then all of my family will be there, my kids and my grandkids too.

“I’ll be teary-eyed coming up 18, it’s going to be a tough one, emotional, but I’ve had my time, now it’s time for the young guys. It’s a young man’s golf course…”

Langer added: “As soon as I missed this year I figured I would make the next Masters my last one. So the plan is to be at Augusta in April and say goodbye to The Masters as a competitor, but I will plan to be there for many more years to enjoy the tournament and to be a part of the Par 3 Contest, the Champions Dinner on Tuesday night and the many other traditions they have.”

On what Augusta National means to Langer, he said: “To me, it’s a very, very special place. It’s very personal. It’s the only major I’ve won. I’ve won it twice. I’ve been playing there now I think this will be my 41st start at The Masters.

“It’s been a very long time, and it’s just a very unique place. It’s the only major venue that we play each and every year.”

When Johnston pressed Langer further on how he came to make his decision about calling time on his Masters career in 2025, Langer replied: “Well the last few years I’ve felt that the course is just getting longer and longer.

“They have numerous holes now that are 520, 530 yards and they’re par-4s. They also the mow the fairways into you from the tee, so the ball doesn’t run like it does on some other courses, and it’s no fun hitting 3-woods, 2-hybrids into those greens that are really designed to be hit into with a 7, 8 or 9-iron like the young guys do.

“I had a conversation with Jack Nicklaus about 10 years ago during a practice round with him and I asked him ‘Jack, in your prime, what was the longest iron that you ever hit into a par-4 at Augusta. Well, it didn’t take him long but he said that the longest was maybe an 8-iron. It was all wedges, 9-irons, and 8-irons. When you look at the green complexes they are designed to receive shots from a short or medium iron, not with a 3-wood or 2-hybrid the way I have to off of sidehill and downhill lies half the time.”