Golf Legend Announces 2025 Will Be His Final Masters Appearance

On April 7, golf legend Bernhard Langer announced that 2025 will be his final appearance at The Masters. He's played for a total of four decades, and this week will mark his 41st start in the championship at Augusta. 

"It's very emotional," Langer, 67, said in an interview on April 7. "You can tell already my voice is breaking a bit. Just realizing it's going to be my last competitive Masters after, you know, four decades... it's going to be bittersweet. I knew it was time to call it quits as a player — I wanted to do it last year but I couldn't with my achilles surgery."

"The course is just getting too long and I'm getting shorter and shorter and I'm hitting hybrids where the other kids are hitting nine irons and eight irons. Maybe wedges," he continued. "So I knew I wasn't going to be in contention anymore."

After four decades playing in the Masters Tournament, Bernhard Langer will make 2025 his 41st and final start. #themasters pic.twitter.com/bxFyyoyzU5

— The Masters (@TheMasters) April 7, 2025

Fans reacted to the news on X.

"This should be put underneath the definition of class act," one person wrote.

"He's been such a great player and being for a long time! Play well," someone else said.

"An absolute credit to the game. Congratulations Mr. Langer on a fantastic career and for giving so much back to the game," a third comment read.

The two-time Masters champion — once in 1985 and again in 1993 — is one of the most successful players in the game. 

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