“It's something that all of us do at times,” Langer said. “The left shoulder doesn't go behind the ball, it kind of gets a little bit in front or over the ball, and then you come down steep and you pull-hook it or you reverse and then you push-slice it -- the dreaded double-cross.

“I've done that many times. We all know the feeling I think.”

Trade winds that blew nearly 50 mph at times and intermittent, sometimes heavy, rain added to the challenge for both men. The Germans played with Jamaica in the first group off the tee, and Langer said he talked to some locals who said the winds are always at their worst early in the day.

“There were shots, I mean, I remember standing on (No.) 11, the par 3, (where) I had no clue what to hit it and how to hit it,” Langer said. “I just wanted to hit it and get under the umbrella. “It was difficult. I think that's why the scores are so high because, you know, the greens are good. You can make putts, but when the wind is this strong, if you don't hit the fairway, the rough is growing day-by-day and the ball is sitting down. It's pretty tough.”

Langer, who said he plans to play the Champions Tour when he turns 50 next year, enjoyed having his 16-year-old on the bag on Thursday. Stefan, who is already a plus-1 handicap, was caddying for the second time.

“He does very well,” Langer said. “I watched him today. I was in one bunker and he took extra care to make it real smooth, because some caddies just go in and … leave some marks behind and the next player goes in and finds a terrible lie.

“I even asked him to look at some of the putts because we play these kind of greens in Florida, Bermudagrass greens, very grainy. That's what he grew up on basically and so he's pretty decent at reading greens, too.”

Langer says he’s a “fairly disciplined” father and expects his son to finish college before entertaining thoughts of turning pro. He knows he may have set a “bad example,” though.

“I didn't go to college,” Langer admitted. “So he might come up to me one day and say: Oh, well, you turned pro when you were 15, but that's not going to go very far.”

Fathers, after all, know best.