Martin Kaymer still considers Tiger Woods the best player in the world and said of being ahead of him in the rankings: "Hopefully I can stay there for a while."
Typically modest of this 25 year old German superstar who has just decimated a very strong field to win the Abu Dhabi HSBC Golf Championship for the 3rd time in a row, they'll need a new trophy next year because he gets to keep this one.
He shot 66,66 this weekend for a record breaking -24 264 total, eight shots clear of Rory McIlroy who had a 65,69 ( -16 total) weekend of his own !! Retief Goosen (64) and who else, Graeme McDowell (67) were T3 at -14.
Kaymer did not have a single bogey in his final 60 holes..Of his last 18 rounds 15 have been in the 60's.. He becomes the quickest player to earn over €10 million in European Tour Official Career Earnings, in just 100 events, beating the previous record of Sergio Garcia who took 111 events to pass the €10 million mark in 2007..
I consider this my home course, it suits my game perfectly he would say afterward.. No kidding !!
The records go on and on, and trust me for those of you who don't follow this guy, he will be the world's number 1 player sooner rather than later.
For the first time in 18 years, European golfers occupy the top 2 spots in the world. Nick Faldo and Bernhard Langer were the last. Graeme McDowell has also pushed Phil Mickelson out of the #4 spot.
Phil Mickelson (70) T37 was never a factor and now flies back to Torrey Pines where he and Tiger will get all the hoopla next week
Lee Westwood (73) had a poor showing this week and ended up T64 and Charl Schwartzel (72) cooled off but still finished T8
Paddy Harrington visited the broadcast booth with some great insight, notably that he thought Rory McIlroy's game will improve more playing in Europe this year as opposed to the States because every time he tees it up in Europe he is expected to be in contention, if not to win, and being in contention every week will make him a better player..
Paddy also talked about how he grew up playing with a half set of clubs, his brother had the other half, and he is adamant that young players should do the same to make them better shot makers. He would not let them use any wedge higher than a PW and would take their drivers out of the bag.
Finally he also mentioned that Martin Kaymer's father would not let him use a tee, forcing him to learn how to 'squeeze" the golf ball when striking it..
World Rankings
1. Lee Westwood
2 Martin Kaymer
3 Tiger Woods
4 Graeme McDowell
5 Steve Stricker
6. Phil Mickelson
Leader board
1 KAYMER, Martin -24 18 -6 67 65 66 66 264
2 MCILROY, Rory -16 18 -3 71 67 65 69 272
T3 GOOSEN, Retief -14 18 -8 70 71 69 64 274
T3 MCDOWELL, Graeme -14 18 -5 66 70 71 67 274
T5 MAYBIN, Gareth -12 18 -3 71 67 69 69 276
T5 LYNN, David -12 18 Par 69 68 67 72 276
7 CABRERA-BELLO, Rafael -11 18 -6 71 73 67 66 277
T8 MOLINARI, Francesco -10 18 -6 71 72 69 66 278
T8 GONZALEZ, Ricardo -10 18 -5 72 68 71 67 278
T8 SCHWARTZEL, Charl -10 18 Par 64 71 71 72 278
PGA Tour.. Bob Hope Classic
10 players are within 5 shots of the lead going into today's final round, and most of them are a bunch of guys in their 20's including the 2 leaders Gary Woodland (66) and Jhonattan Vegas (66) at- 24
Chris Baryla (70), Mike Weir (72) and Matt McQuillan (77) all missed the cut
Stephen Ames (68) sterts the day 9 shots off the lead..
Leader board
T1 4 Gary Woodland (PP) -24 65 69 64 66 264
T1 3 Jhonattan Vegas (PP) -24 64 67 67 66 264
3 11 Martin Laird (PP) -22 68 68 64 66 266
T4 14 Chris Kirk (PP) -21 69 68 64 66 267
T4 10 Bill Haas (PP) -21 69 68 68 62 267
T4 15 Daniel Summerhays (PP) -21 69 66 68 64 267
T4 24 Keegan Bradley (PP) -21 66 67 68 66 267
8 36 Greg Chalmers (PP) -20 67 67 65 69 268
T9 21 Kevin Na (PP) -19 69 67 68 65 269
T9 40 Charles Howell III (PP) -19 66 66 70 67 269
T9 7 Matt Kuchar (PP) -19 66 70 67 66 269
T9 23 Boo Weekley (PP) -19 65 66 72 66 269
Bryan Angus
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