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Bernhard Langer's last supper

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AUGUSTA, Ga. -- It took a trip through Amen Corner for Bernhard Langer to find religion.

In 1985, the German won his first green jacket at Augusta National, used Jesus' name in vain in his champions' interview at Butler Cabin, then had an awakening days later at a Bible study in Hilton Head, South Carolina. In 1993, he won his second Masters on Easter Sunday at the mother church of American golf.

"This tournament was more meaningful to me than most people know, even in a spiritual sense," Langer, 67, said Friday.

He spoke in past tense because a bogey left him on the wrong side of the cut line in his 41st -- and final -- Masters as a member of the field.