Kaymer hit a wayward tee ball
on the 15th hole Thursday en
route to a first-round 79.
Kaymer struggles again By Tim Rosaforte
54 AUGUST 20, 2012 ❮ GOLFWORLD.COM
Coming out of the scoring cabin after the first round of the PGA Championship at Kiawah Island’s Ocean
Course, you would have never known
Martin Kaymer just shot 79. The
German’s head was up, his shoulders
back. He was stoic. “It sounds so
silly,” he said. “You shoot 79 and you
feel good about your game. It can’t be
right. It’s very strange.”
Very strange indeed considering
that, just two years ago, Kaymer won
the PGA Championship in a playoff
against Bubba Watson at Whistling
Straits, or that in February 2011 he as-
cended to the No. 1 player in the world
and remained there for eight weeks.
At the time nobody was surprised,
nobody said Kaymer didn’t “feel like”
the No. 1 player in the world, which is
what Luke Donald and Lee Westwood
heard because they climbed to the top
without having won a major.
