2010 PGA Championship

[Range King]

Ok, I am a bit bitter about all the coverage of who lost the PGA C'ship instead of who won it. I guarantee, if the roles were reversed and Martin Kaymer had gotten the penalty, there would not be ANY discussion around this whole bunker topic. It would be a short "Read the rules, shut up and get out of the way."
This representative cover says it all...

http://digital.globalgolfpost.com/gl...fpost/20100816

some people should take their journalistic approach a bit more professionally and show the sportsmanship and spirit of the game that we all pretend to appreciate so much, and get their priorities straight of who won and who made a stupid mistake.

So here it comes: My totally biased partisan post, cheering for my fellow German Martin Kaymer, major winner.

Coming to the PGA C'ship, he was 25 years old, 13th in the World Ranking (5th now), he had already won his 5th title on the Euro Tour this year, finished 3rd at Doral, 8th at Pebble and 7th at the Old Course. I don't know why so many people did not have MK on the radar at all. The guy is consistent, even on the big venues.

After a solid first round he posted 3 rounds with 13 birdies and only 2 bogeys.
On saturday he played 30 holes with 8 birdies and 1 bogey with the precision and consistency of a surgeon, with irons and putter.

Latest at 16th in the final round, he was pushing his game to Championship level, when he holed that par putt.

On 18th in regulation he pulled an incredible up and down, with a Tiger-like clutch putt to secure his place in the playoff.

Then after being 1 behind Bubba in the playoff he absolutely needed to birdie the ridiculously long 17th to have a realistic chance. And just pulled it off.

Then at last, he proved that not only is he a superb ball striker and pressure putter, but also has the brains to win titles. And anybody calling him names for chipping out of a horrible lie should remember that he left himself a 190yd shot to a tucked pin, which he also delivered.

Martin Kaymer is a true champion and fully deserved to win. Congratulations.

(And whoever says he is not, is full of it. )

[JWL1957]

Rory should have won the PGA.That putt on the last and a missed four footer on 15 I think would have won him the event without the need for a playoff.Neither putts were that difficult either, putting under pressure his downfall as it has been once or twice in the past.I hope it won't become a common thing during his career.I'd hate for him to end up like Sergio.

Rory is not the head case that Sergio is. The kid will win a few.

[zeg]

Then at last, he proved that not only is he a superb ball striker and pressure putter, but also has the brains to win titles. And anybody calling him names for chipping out of a horrible lie should remember that he left himself a 190yd shot to a tucked pin, which he also delivered.

Agree. He played solid, solid golf, and was clearly in control on every shot I saw him take. I concur with your assessment of the chip out---you don't get a bonus point for making a hero shot. It was a very smart play. Though in some ways he got lucky---being able to drop from the safer side of the lateral hazard gave Watson a real chance at making a bogey, and even after the pitch went into the bunker, it was just about holed out for a 0-putt bogey. Had that happened and had Kaymer not been able to make the putt in that alternate universe, I think there'd be a lot more second-guessing of his lay-up out of the junk.

It'd still have been the right play, since I bet he gets a better score, on average, with a longer approach than with the high-risk shot out of the scrub, but the critics aren't usually satisfied with that kind of statistics...