📍Anhausen, Diedorf, Germany
1957 – 1976“Bernhard Langer was born in August 1957 in Anhausen, a small, Catholic village in the farmland near Augsburg, in Bavaria. His father, Erwin, was a bricklayer who had been captured by Russian troops at the end of the Second World War and escaped by jumping from a moving train on its way to a Siberian prison camp, later settling in Anhausen. His mother, Walburga, worked as a waitress, and the family was modest and devout. As a boy, Bernhard helped his father lay bricks, mixing mortar and setting bricks along a string to keep them straight, and he has said he learned his work ethic there. When he was about eight, he followed his older brother, Erwin, by bicycle to a golf course some miles from home to caddie, earning pocket money. He fell in love with the game, practising whenever the caddies were allowed, and he was soon better than the members. Golf was almost unknown in Germany then, and there were few people to teach him; he largely taught himself, reading and watching. At fifteen he left school to become an assistant professional at the Munich Country Club, and he turned professional in 1972. He went on to win the Masters twice, in 1985 and 1993, and became the first German world number one. A devout Christian, he has continued to win on the senior tour into his sixties, setting records for longevity. Anhausen has always been proud of its bricklayer's son.”
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