{"id":453,"date":"2005-02-03T07:30:57","date_gmt":"2005-02-03T12:30:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesandtrap.com\/uncategorized\/once_is_enough_for_langer\/"},"modified":"2005-02-03T07:30:57","modified_gmt":"2005-02-03T12:30:57","slug":"once_is_enough_for_langer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesandtrap.com\/b\/other\/once_is_enough_for_langer","title":{"rendered":"Once is Enough for Langer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Bernhard Langer\" src=\"\/b\/imgs\/other\/bernhard_langer.jpg\" width=\"180\" height=\"142\" class=\"bordered\" \/>Early in November of 2004, the <a href=\"http:\/\/thesandtrap.com\/international\/lehman_to_captain_us_ryder_cup_team\/\" title=\"Lehman Chosen as Captain\">United States chose Tom Lehman<\/a> as its captain for the 2006 Ryder Cup. The European team has taken a bit longer to choose its leader for the 2006 campaign. Ryder Cup super-star Colin Montgomerie decided he&#8217;s not done trouncing American opponents and <a href=\"http:\/\/thesandtrap.com\/international\/monty_sidesteps_ryder_cup_captaincy\/\" title=\"Monty Sidesteps Captaincy\">withdrew his name<\/a> from consideration. This left three possible choices: Ian Woosnam, Nick Faldo, and Bernhard Langer. Better make that two. Now it appears Langer has decided <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pga.com\/news\/rydercup\/langer020205.cfm?rss\" title=\"Langer Steps Down\" class=\"external external_icon\">he&#8217;s going to step aside<\/a> and allow someone else to fill the position. Although Langer removed himself from the captain&#8217;s seat, he still has ambitions of being in Ireland saying, &#8220;I have every intention of being a playing member of the 2006 European team.&#8221; This comes as bittersweet news to American golf fans considering Langer&#8217;s 10 Ryder Cup appearances and 21-15-6 cumulative record.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nSo who will replace Langer? Most &#8220;insiders&#8221; have earmarked <a href=\"http:\/\/www.woosie.com\/\" title=\"Ian Woosnam\" class=\"external external_icon\">Ian Woosnam<\/a> over Nick Faldo. Woosnam definitely has the experience required for the job. He&#8217;s played on eight Ryder Cups and was Sam Torrence&#8217;s Vice-Captain in 2002. If Woosnam is chosen, any European criticisms of Lehman&#8217;s edicate at the 1999 Ryder Cup are likely to be countered since Woosnam has had past run-ins with the law. In December 2003, he was held in Jersey for intoxication and six months later was involved in a disturbance at a bar which may have cost him the 2004 captaincy. Whatever the European Tour tournament commitee&#8217;s decision is, expect an announcement on March 2.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"credit\">Photo Credit: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbv-net.de\/public\/home\/nachrichten\" title=\"bbv-net\" class=\"external external_icon\">BBV-Net<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Victorious in 2004, European Ryder Cup Captain Bernhard Langer has withdrawn his name from captaincy in 2006.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[98,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-453","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hot_topics","category-other"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - 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