Two-time champion said the tournament was instrumental in him becoming a Christian after missing the cut on Friday<\/p>\n
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\u2019s 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.<\/p>\n
\u201cI never mentioned it to the public but this tournament actually was very instrumental in me becoming a Christian,\u201d 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 \u201cthe Last Supper\u201d, which must have been what got him thinking about it. \u201cI 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.\u201d<\/p>\n
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