TreeWhile playing in a tournament in 1982, Bernhard Langer found himself in a quandary on the seventeenth hole. He hit a 9-iron for his second shot and pulled it to the left. The ball disappeared into a giant oak tree near the green - and did not come down. Eventually, Langer found it lying in a small indentation on a giant branch fifteen feet above the ground. Langer had two options. The first was taking a penalty shot. Langer opted for the second:
"I hit the ball from up in the tree onto the green," he later recalled, "and the crowd went absolutely crazy! The TV cameras had everything on tape and hours later the picture of me hitting the ball out of the tree went around the world."
["Two days later I flew to Akron Ohio to play the World Series golf tournament which was my first ever event in the US," Langer remembered. "I was co-leader after three rounds and I heard the people in the crowd saying: 'There's the guy who was up in the tree!'" (While playing at the Williams World Challenge in California, an unofficial tournament hosted by Tiger Woods, in December 2001, Langer climbed another tree to shake a ball loose. He took a penalty stroke but managed to save par.)]
Langer, Bernhard (?- ) American golfer
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