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    Bernhard Langer shot a 67 in the first round of the tournament after a long layoff from competition due to COVID-19. While it felt a bit strange at first to be playing without fans, he got into a groove after a couple holes and birdied several early holes. The course played differently without grandstands and fans around some holes like 9 and 18. Langer hopes to build on his solid start and regain the confidence he had earlier in the year before competitions were suspended.

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    Bernhard Langer shot a 67 in the first round of the tournament after a long layoff from competition due to COVID-19. While it felt a bit strange at first to be playing without fans, he got into a groove after a couple holes and birdied several early holes. The course played differently without grandstands and fans around some holes like 9 and 18. Langer hopes to build on his solid start and regain the confidence he had earlier in the year before competitions were suspended.

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    Bernhard Langer shot a 67 in the first round of the tournament after a long layoff from competition due to COVID-19. While it felt a bit strange at first to be playing without fans, he got into a groove after a couple holes and birdied several early holes. The course played differently without grandstands and fans around some holes like 9 and 18. Langer hopes to build on his solid start and regain the confidence he had earlier in the year before competitions were suspended.

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    ROUND 1 INTERVIEW

    July 31, 2020

    BERNHARD LANGER

    THE MODERATOR: Bernhard, great playing today. How did it feel to get off to a good
    start after such a long layoff from competition?

    BERNHARD LANGER: Yeah, it felt good. It was almost kind of new, a little
    apprehensive, didn't know what to expect. But didn't take too long to get into the
    groove. And I had a solid day. Made a bunch of birdies out there, and just a couple of
    bogeys, but got to work on that stuff, too. Work on the short game a little bit. There
    were just two bad chip shots really.

    THE MODERATOR: Did it take you any time to get into your round, or did it kind of feel
    like old hat once you got in there?

    BERNHARD LANGER: It took a couple of holes to get back to pretty comfortable. And
    started very solid. Hit a lot of good shots, gave myself opportunities. Birdied the
    second, and then made another birdie somewhere not too long after that. So it felt
    pretty comfortable out there.

    Q. What about the course today? No fans. Obviously, 17 is a completely


    different animal out there.

    BERNHARD LANGER: Yeah.

    Q. Tell us a little bit about that aspect of it, missing the fans, and especially 17
    there.

    BERNHARD LANGER: Right. It's different. Very different playing without fans. And
    it's unprecedented. I have been on Tour 44 years and don't ever recall not having fans,
    so it's very weird in a sense. So but you just -- as you play, you just try and accept what
    it is, block it out. We are grateful we can play. Other sports probably struggle a lot
    more. We're outside, we have fresh air. We can do social distancing, so the danger is
    much less than other sports where there's contact and closeness. So, yeah, we got to
    get used to that, having no fans, for a little while. And hopefully it won't be that long till
    they come back and we will enjoy the atmosphere again like we normally do at 17,
    where it's -- it's just amazing. But right now we're going to deal with what it is.

    Q. What about -- Billy said something about this just a second ago. He said
    coming down the holes like 9 and 18, where you got all of this infrastructure in the
    past, the way the hole plays, and he said he almost didn't recognize some of the

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    holes.

    BERNHARD LANGER: Absolutely, yeah. It looks different, yeah. I played a practice


    round and I look at the 18th green, I'm going, man, this looks so different without all the
    grandstands around it. It's actually a lot of open ground beyond the green. You never
    see that normally as a player. So it does look different. But we kind of shoot for the pin
    or for the hole anyway, so we just have to adjust.

    Q. I was going to say you got this momentum going right now. Seems like it kind
    of picked up where you left off a little bit here. Do you feel like you're in that
    groove that you were back in March?

    BERNHARD LANGER: Probably not quite, but it takes a few days and a few weeks to
    get into a real groove. But I was playing very solid early on in the year, had -- first four
    tournaments I could have won all four, I had a chance, and only won one. But as I said,
    I was more or less in the groove, had a lot of confidence. And you got to build that up
    again. It's just by having several good rounds, your confidence will build up and you
    build on that and you keep playing with that, looking forward to more tournaments. So it
    will take a couple days, but hopefully we'll get there.

    Q. You touched on this a second ago, but, I mean, in that group that you were
    playing in, that would be the biggest group here this weekend with fans going
    around. Was it kind of strange (inaudible) man, nobody's watching us?

    BERNHARD LANGER: Oh, absolutely. It's just very different. I played with Ernie Els.
    He had a hole in one today, and we were the only ones clapping and cheering. And so
    everybody around us on other holes were going, oh, what's going on? Somebody had a
    hole in one. But normally that would have been a huge cheer. You could have heard
    that roar all over the golf course. And it's just how it is right now.

    Q. Were there any adjustments you made from those practice rounds the day
    before till today?

    BERNHARD LANGER: No, not really. The golf course plays very similar. We had a bit
    of rain. It played firm my first practice round, and it played soft after the rain, softish.
    And right now it's sort of in between. The wind switched as well. Early in the week we
    had -- I think it was westerly wind, now we have northerly winds, so the golf course plays
    a little different. But very similar to yesterday. We had the pro-am yesterday. The
    conditions were very much like today. The golf course is in great shape. And no
    excuses, just got to hit it well, hit fairways, hit greens, and make some putts.

    Q. Our German friend wanted to get one question on camera in German.

    BERNHARD LANGER: All right. They show golf in Germany now?

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    Q. Bernhard, you shot a 67 today. What was it like to get off to such a good start
    after going off?

    BERNHARD LANGER: (Speaking German.)

    Q. Couldn't have said it better myself.

    BERNHARD LANGER: You understood all of that, right?

    THE MODERATOR: Thanks, Bernhard.

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