Martin Kaymer Elevates to Golf’s Elite with 2014 US Open Victory

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Published: June 16, 2014

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It’s time to revise the debate about who the best golfer under the age of 30 is.

Martin Kaymer shuffled that deck in a big way Sunday with one of the most dominating U.S. Open triumphs of this century.

Tiger Woods was better while winning at 12 under in 2000, and Rory McIlroy was a record-setting 16 under in 2011, but Kaymer can take a place right alongside them after finishing nine under and winning by a whopping eight strokes.

Kaymer’s German roots and machine-like march to victory beg for comparisons to the company whose logo is on his game-day shirts—Mercedes-Benz.

He looked like a product of German engineering precision while joining Woods and McIlroy on the short list of seven players who have won wire to wire in 114 U.S. Opens.



No one ever got closer than four shots of Kaymer’s lead over the last 48 holes, and with his 30th birthday still six months away, he’s one of the few players to win two majors before reaching the big three-o.

“I was playing for second,” conceded Erik Compton in his interview with NBC, after tying with Rickie Fowler for second. “I think we all were playing for second.”

Only three players broke par for the tournament, though it might be more accurate to say Fowler and Compton fractured par at one under while Kaymer thoroughly bulldozed it.

Said NBC golf analyst Johnny Miller, looking back on Kaymer’s red-hot start, “He basically demolished the field after his two 65s.”

Keegan Bradley was in Kaymer’s group for those two rounds that led to a U.S. Open-record 130 for 36 holes. Naturally, he was impressed.

“He's a guy that is really tough,” Bradley told reporters at his Sunday press conference. “If you got him in a Ryder Cup match or coming down the end of a tournament, he's probably a guy you would rather not face. ...
Article Source: Bleacher Report - Golf

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