Martin Kaymer
| Martin Kaymer | |
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| Personnel | |
| Nation: |
 Germany
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| Career data | |
| Professional since: | 2005 |
| Current tour: | European Tour (since 2007) |
| Tournament wins: | 22nd |
| Major wins : | 2 (2010, 2014) |
| Awards: |
Sir Henry Cotton Rookie of the Year Award (2007), Harry Vardon Trophy (2010), Winner of the Race to Dubai (2010), Race to Dubai European Tour Golfer of the Year (2010), The European Tour Players' Player of the Year for 2010 Breakthrough Performance of the Year, Laureus World Sports Awards (2011), Laureus World Sports Awards (2013) |
Martin Kaymer (born December 28, 1984 in Düsseldorf ) is a German professional golfer . With the PGA Championship (2010) and the US Open (2014) he has won two of the major tournaments so far . After Bernhard Langer , Kaymer is the second German to belong to the circle of major winners. Like Langer, he was the leader in the golf world rankings for a while . In February 2011, at the age of 26, he was the second youngest player to date and held the top position for eight weeks.
life and career
schooldays
Martin Kaymer comes from Mettmann , where he first attended the Kirchendeller Weg primary school and then the Heinrich-Heine-Gymnasium for a few years. Later he switched to the Lore-Lorentz-Gymnasium in Düsseldorf, which was specially designed for sports.
He seriously started playing golf at the age of 10 at GC Mettmann. Before that he also played football. He later started for the Bundesliga club GC Bergisch Land in Wuppertal , where he celebrated his greatest success as an amateur. At the age of 15, he already had a handicap of 0.
Kaymer names the South African Ernie Els as a role model . He is trained by Günter Kessler , who is also the trainer of Bettina Hauert and Marcel Siem . Martin Kaymer lives in Mettmann .
2005/2006
At the end of 2005 he switched to the professional camp with a handicap of +4.8. He started the 2006 season on the EPD Tour , a tournament series for young professionals. With a round of 59, recorded on June 21, 2006 at the Habsberg Classic, he achieved the lowest result ever achieved by a German player in an official tournament. In total, he achieved five victories and won the annual ranking ( Order of Merit ) ahead of schedule. In July 2006 he was able to qualify for the Vodafone Challenge, a Challenge Tour tournament that he won straight away. This gave him the right to start the remaining tournaments of the Challenge Tour 2006. There he reached fourth place in the annual ranking with a second win and further good placements and thus the right to play for the 2007 season of the PGA European Tour . Thereupon he was voted “Player of the Year 2006” by the German section of the PGA.
2007
On the European Tour 2007 he achieved his best result at the Scandinavian Masters , where he was leading until shortly before the end and finished second. With four further top ten placements, Martin Kaymer secured not only the right to play for 2008, but also a starting place in the elite field at the end of the season in Valderrama at the Volvo Masters . There he finished sixth and ended the 2007 season with a 41st place in the European Tour Order of Merit and prize money of 754,691 euros. As a result, the European Tour presented him with the Sir Henry Cotton Rookie of the Year Award as the best newcomer of the season.
2008
At his first tournament in 2008, the Abu Dhabi Golf Championship , Martin Kaymer won his first victory on the European Tour and made it into the top 50 of the golf world rankings for the first time. He became the youngest German winner of a European Tour tournament ahead of Bernhard Langer who was 14 days older when he won his first win. After finishing second at the Dubai Desert Classic two weeks later, Kaymer reached number 21 in the world rankings and received the European Tour Golfer of the Month for January 2008 award . In June 2008 he became the first German and to date the youngest professional to win the BMW International Open , a tournament in which Bernhard Langer took second place five times. With a shared second place at the Volvo Masters, he finished the season in eighth place in the Order of Merit (prize money: 1,794,500 euros).
2009
In 2009 he won two consecutive victories in July: first at the Open de France and a week later at the Scottish Open in Loch Lomond , he won titles three and four on the European Tour. On July 13, 2009 Kaymer reached number 11 in the world rankings. Because of a foot injury that he sustained on the go-cart track during his summer vacation (end of August 2009), Kaymer had to take a break for almost two months before he intervened again in the Castelló Masters (October 22nd to 25th, 2009) . There he achieved a shared second place. Kaymer missed winning the Race to Dubai due to this injury and finished third after he had a promising lead.
2010
At the start of the 2010 season he was able to win the Abu Dhabi Golf Championship again, which brought him to 6th place in the world rankings and thus to the top ten for the first time. By far the greatest success of his young career Kaymer achieved with winning the PGA Championship 2010 in Whistling Straits. From the second round he showed high-class golf and was able to take the sole lead in the final round. After Bubba Watson was open to him, he was able to prevail in the 3-hole playoff. With this victory he was able to improve from 13th to 5th place in the world rankings and also secured participation in the 2010 Ryder Cup . After Bernhard Langer, he is only the second German golfer to win a major tournament is. At the Ryder Cup he won both four-balls (with Lee Westwood and Ian Poulter), shared in the foursome (with Westwood) and lost his singles match. The following weekend he won the Alfred Dunhill Links Championship at St Andrews by three shots from Danny Willett . He became the first player since Tiger Woods in 2006 and the first European since Nick Faldo in 1989 to win three consecutive tournaments. In the world rankings, he rose to fourth place in a row. On October 25th, he improved to third place in the world rankings. At the end of the 2010 season, Martin Kaymer won the Race to Dubai (the Order of Merit) of the European Tour as the second German after Bernhard Langer and was together with Graeme McDowell "2010 Race to Dubai European Tour Golfer of the Year". This award was presented to two golfers at the same time for the first time in tour history. In addition, he was awarded "The European Tour Players' Player of the Year for 2010" by the tour players of the European Tour.
2011
On January 23, 2011, after his ninth victory, he overtook Tiger Woods by eight strokes on the European Tour in Abu Dhabi, finishing second in the world rankings. A month later, he put himself at the top of the world rankings with his semi-final victory over Bubba Watson and the final at the WGC Accenture Match Play Championships. After Bernhard Langer, he is only the second German to have succeeded. In April, he lost his number 1 status back to Westwood when Westwood won the Indonesian Masters on the Asian Tour .
Kaymer has been with caddy Christian Donald, Luke Donald's brother, since June. At the 140th edition of the Open Championship, Kaymer was third after two good first rounds, but in the end had to settle for position twelve and eight strokes behind the Northern Irishman Darren Clarke .
In November, Martin Kaymer celebrated his tenth success in the 120th tournament played on the European Tour at the WGC-HSBC Champions in Shanghai . With nine birdies on the last twelve holes and a 63 final round, he won by three strokes ahead of Sweden's Fredrik Jacobson - the lowest final round ever achieved in a tournament in the World Golf Championships series. With prize money of € 842,218 won , he climbed to second place on the European money list and was able to book more than two million euros in one season for the third time in a row. This was also his first win at a WGC tournament and he is the first German to ever win the championships. In addition, Kaymer secured at least two tournament wins in one season for the fourth time in a row.
2012
At the Dubai Desert Classic, Kaymer achieved the first hole-in-one of his professional career on the seventh hole in the second round .
In April Kaymer survived the cut for the first time in his fifth participation in The Masters and finally finished in shared 44th place.
Kaymer was nominated for the European Ryder Cup team in 2012 . At 13:13, Kaymer won his individual match against Steve Stricker with a "1-up" and provided the decisive 14th point through which Europe remained in possession of the Ryder Cup. The victory was only decided on the 18th hole. Kaymer had 2 putts in the game against Stricker to win the game. He first putted the ball behind the flag from 11 meters before taking the final victory for Europe with the second putt.
On December 2, 2012, Martin Kaymer achieved his first win of the year at the Nedbank Golf Challenge in South Africa. In this invitation tournament for 12 players, which is not part of the European Tour, he won prize money of USD 1.25 million.
2013
In 2013 Martin Kaymer played alongside the European Tour for the first time on the PGA Tour , for which he was eligible to play until 2015 thanks to his victory at the PGA Championship. The season ended for the first time since 2007 without a win for Kaymer.
2014
In his second official year as a member of the PGA Tour, Kaymer succeeded in winning its most valuable tournament, the Players Championship . With this victory he reached the top 30 in the world rankings again, before the tournament he was 61st. With the victory at the US Open , he secured his second major title. He maintained the lead during the entire tournament, clearly distancing the competition by eight strokes and setting several tournament records. Kaymer is the first continental European to win the US Open. In October he also won the PGA Grand Slam of Golf . He won the Ryder Cup 2014 for the third time in a row in the European team; he won his singles and reached two more shared matches at the Fourballs / Foursomes. In November Kaymer achieved a shared sixth place at the WGC-HSBC Champions in Shanghai , which he had won in 2011, and was still in the lead until the last hole, when he suffered a water hammer (winner Bubba Watson ).
2015
The first tournament of the year brought Martin Kaymer a defeat. At the Abu Dhabi HSBC Golf Championship in January, Kaymer led confidently for three days. On the final day, he surprisingly fell back to third place after he was already six strokes ahead at the beginning of the last round and even 10 strokes ahead after four holes.
Awards
- 2007 Sir Henry Cotton Rookie of the Year
- 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010 Player of the Year of the PGA of Germany
- 01/2008, 07/2009, 08/2010, 01/2011, 11/2011 The Race to Dubai Golfer of the Month
- 2010
- Harry Vardon Trophy
- Race to Dubai European Tour Golfer of the Year
- 3rd place German athlete of the year
- Laureus World Sports Award in the Breakthrough of the Year category (Newcomer)
- 2013
- Laureus World Sports Award in the Team of the Year category (member of the 2012 Ryder Cup European team)
Amateur victories (2)
- 2003 Austrian amateur championships
- 2004 German amateur championships
Professional victories (22)
European Tour (11)
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| No. | date | competition | Win score | head Start | Runner-up |
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| 1 | 20 Jan 2008 | Abu Dhabi Golf Championship | -15 (66-65-68-74 = 273) | 4 strokes |
 Lee Westwood , Henrik Stenson
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| 2 | 22 Jun 2008 | BMW International Open | -15 (68-63-67-75 = 273) | Playoff |
 Hansen is different
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| 3 | July 5, 2009 | Open de France ALSTOM | -13 (62-72-69-68 = 271) | Playoff |
Lee Westwood
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| 4th | July 12, 2009 | Barclays Scottish Open | -15 (69-65-66-69 = 269) | 2 strokes |
 Gonzalo Fernández-Castaño , Raphaël Jacquelin
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| 5 | 24 Jan 2010 | Abu Dhabi Golf Championship | -21 (67-67-67-66 = 267) | 1 hit |
Ian Poulter
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| 6th | 16 Aug 2010 | PGA Championship | -11 (72-68-67-70 = 277) | Playoff |
 Bubba Watson
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| 7th | 12 Sep 2010 | KLM Open | -14 (67-67-66-66 = 266) | 4 strokes |
 Fabrizio Zanotti , Christian Nilsson
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| 8th | 10 Oct 2010 | Alfred Dunhill Links Championship | -17 (68-69-68-66 = 271) | 3 strokes |
Danny Willett
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| 9 | 23 Jan 2011 | Abu Dhabi Golf Championship | -24 (67-65-66-66 = 264) | 8 strokes |
 Rory McIlroy
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| 10 | 6 Nov 2011 | WGC - HSBC Champions | -20 (69-68-68-63 = 268) | 3 strokes |
Fredrik Jacobson
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| 11 | June 16, 2014 | US Open | -9 (65-65-72-69 = 271) | 8 strokes |
Erik Compton , Rickie Fowler
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European Tour Playoff record (3–1)
| No. | year | competition | opponent | Result |
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| 1 | 2008 | BMW International Open |
Hansen is different
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Victory with birdie on the first hole |
| 2 | 2008 | Alfred Dunhill Links Championship |
Robert Karlsson Ross Fisher
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Defeat by birdie of the opponent on the first hole |
| 3 | 2009 | Open de France ALSTOM |
Lee Westwood
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Victory with par on the first hole |
| 4th | 2010 | PGA Championship |
Bubba Watson
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Victory in 3-hole playoff: Kaymer 4-2-5 = 11, Watson 3-3-6 = 12 |
PGA Tour (3)
| No. | date | competition | Win score | head Start | Runner-up |
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| 1 | 16 Aug 2010 | PGA Championship | -11 (72-68-67-70 = 277) | Playoff |
Bubba Watson
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| 2 | May 12, 2014 | THE PLAYERS Championship | -13 (63-69-72-71 = 275) | 1 hit |
Jim Furyk
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| 3 | June 16, 2014 | US Open | -9 (65-65-72-69 = 271) | 8 strokes |
Erik Compton , Rickie Fowler
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PGA Tour Playoff Record (1–0)
| No. | year | competition | opponent | Result |
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| 1 | 2010 | PGA Championship |
Bubba Watson
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Victory in 3-hole playoff: Kaymer 4-2-5 = 11, Watson 3-3-6 = 12 |
Sunshine Tour (1)
| No. | date | competition | Win score | head Start | Runner-up |
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| 1 | 2 Dec 2012 | Nedbank Golf Challenge | -8 (72-69-70-69 = 280) | 2 strokes |
 Charl Schwartzel
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Challenge Tour (2)
| No. | date | competition | Win score | head Start | Runner-up |
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| 1 | 13 Aug 2006 | Vodafone Challenge | -18 (70-67-64-70 = 271) | 2 strokes |
Matthew King, Álvaro Quirós
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| 2 | 17 Sep 2006 | Open des Volcans | -13 (67-64-69-71 = 271) | 6 strokes |
Michael Lorenzo-Vera
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EPD Tour (6)
| No. | date | competition | Win score | head Start | Runner-up |
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| 1 | June 14, 2005 | Central German Classic (as amateur) |
-19 (67-64-66 = 197) | 5 strokes |
Wolfgang Huget
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| 2 | June 1, 2006 | Lich Classic | -13 (70-64-69 = 203) | 7 strokes |
Mark Grabow Schytter
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| 3 | June 22, 2006 | Habsberg Classic | -27 (68-59-62 = 189) | 10 strokes |
 Rick Huiskamp
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| 4th | 4th July 2006 | Coburg Brose Open | -12 (68-68-68 = 204) | 4 strokes |
Leave Jensen
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| 5 | July 12, 2006 | Winterbrock Classic | -17 (68-60-71 = 199) | 1 hit |
Richard Treis
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| 6th | 17 Aug 2006 | Hockenberg Classic | -17 (72-64-63 = 199) | 7 strokes |
Christoph Günther
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Other victories (1)
| No. | date | competition | Win score | head Start | Runner-up |
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| 1 | 15th October 2014 | PGA Grand Slam of Golf | -6 (65-71 = 136) | PlayOff |
Bubba Watson
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Major Championships
Wins (2)
| year | competition | 54 holes | Win score | head Start | Runner-up |
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| 2010 | PGA Championship | 4 strokes behind | −11 (72–68–67–70 = 277) | Playoff 1 |
Bubba Watson
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| 2014 | US Open | 5 strokes of leadership | −9 (65–65–72–69 = 271) | 8 strokes |
Erik Compton , Rickie Fowler
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1 Bubba Watson defeated in a 3-hole playoff: Kaymer (4-2-5 = 11) and Watson (3-3-6 = 12)
Major tournaments
| Tournament | 2008 | 2009 | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 |
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| The Masters | CUT | CUT | CUT | CUT | T44 | T35 | T31 | CUT | T49 | T16 | 48 | 51 |
| US Open | T53 | CUT | T8 | T39 | T15 | T59 | 1 | CUT | T37 | T35 | CUT | T35 |
| The Open Championship | 80 | T34 | T7 | T12 | CUT | T32 | 70 | T12 | T36 | T37 | CUT | DNP |
| PGA Championship | CUT | T6 | 1 | CUT | CUT | T33 | CUT | T12 | T7 | DNP | T42 | CUT |
DNP = did not participate (Engl. Did not play)
WD = abandoned (Engl. Withdrawn)
CUT = Cut failed
"T" divided placement (Engl. Tied )
Green background for wins
Yellow background for top 10
World Golf Championships tournaments
| competition | 2008 | 2009 | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 |
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| Accenture Match Play Championship / Cadillac Match Play Championship | R64 | R32 | R32 | 2 | R16 | R16 | R64 | G | G | G | DNP | DNP |
| CA Championship / Cadillac Championship | T57 | T35 | T3 | T24 | T20 | T49 | T58 | T31 | T42 | T23 | DNP | DNP |
| Bridgestone Invitational | T68 | T60 | T22 | T29 | T29 | T9 | T56 | T45 | DNP | DNP | DNP | DNP |
| HSBC champions | - | T6 | T30 | 1 | 9 | T8 | T6 | T30 | T40 | DNP | DNP | DNP |
DNP = did not play
G (group phase), VF, R16, R32, R64 = round in which Martin Kaymer lost in match play
"T" = shared rank
"-" = no tournament
Green background for wins
Yellow background for top 10
The HSBC Champions only became a WGC tournament in 2009.
Participation in team competitions
amateur
- Eisenhower Trophy (for Germany): 2004
- St. Andrews Trophy (for continental Europe): 2004
professional
- World Cup (for Germany): 2007, 2008, 2009, 2011
- Ryder Cup (for Europe): 2010 (winner), 2012 (winner), 2014 (winner), 2016
See also
Web links
- Player profile at the European Tour (English)
- Personal website
- Tournament results of the last two years on the Official World Golf Ranking Website (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ In the “Team of the Year” category as a member of the European Ryder Cup team 2012.
- ↑ Archived copy ( Memento of the original from June 28, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ Ethos GmbH: Martin Kaymer website. Retrieved May 23, 2018 .
- ^ "Wunderkind from Germany" ( Memento from September 29, 2007 in the Internet Archive ). Report on www.welt.de
- ↑ BBC: Martin Kaymer wins Dunhill Links Championship
- ↑ OWGR Week 41 - Results ( Memento of 7 March 2012 at the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Kaymer wins player's player award
- ↑ Victory in Abu Dhabi: Kaymer overtook Woods in the world rankings. In: Spiegel Online . January 23, 2011, accessed June 9, 2018 .
- ↑ Kaymer new No. 1 in the world rankings ( Memento from March 2, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ http://www.abendblatt.de/sport/article1798551/Ein-Deutscher-ist-die-Nummer-eins-der-Golf-Weltrangliste.html
- ↑ Official World Golf Ranking - News 2011, Week 17 ( Memento from September 12, 2012 in the web archive archive.today )
- ↑ Donald remains Kaymer's caddy at spox.com July 14, 2011, accessed November 5, 2011.
- ↑ WGC-HSBC Champions 2011 - Leaderboard , accessed November 6, 2011.
- ↑ With this win - Martin Kaymer , Statistical Effects of the Tournament Victory , accessed on November 6, 2011.
- ↑ Holed from 161.85 meters. In: faz.net. February 10, 2012, accessed February 10, 2012 .
- ↑ Kaymer secures the Ryder Cup for Europe FAZ Online, October 1, 2012
- ↑ Resurrection after the crisis. In: sueddeutsche.de. October 1, 2012, accessed April 6, 2015 .
- ↑ Kaymer wins Nedbank Challenge in South Africa
- ↑ PGATOUR.com: Five internationals join TOUR for 2013. The Tour Report, November 20, 2012, accessed December 10, 2012 .
- ↑ Kaymer's journey comes full circle at THE PLAYERS. May 12, 2014, accessed June 9, 2014 .
- ↑ Stal becomes a star in Abu Dhabi , European Tour , January 18, 2015, accessed January 20, 2015
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Kaymer, Martin |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German golfer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 28, 1984 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Dusseldorf |