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Sunday 15 August 2010PGA Tour · European TourYear in Review

Kaymer wins PGA Championship

Whistling Straits, Kohler, Wisconsin · Thursday 12 to Sunday 15 August 2010 · Martin Kaymer’s win no. 1 on the PGA Tour · purse $7,500,000 USD · 92nd PGA Championship; decided by a three-hole aggregate playoff

The headline is set by GNN from the record. Reports from the papers of the day are below as they are found.

The weather

13 h 49 m

of daylight on the final day, the sun 60° up at noon, and that night a waxing crescent moon (computed from the date and the place).

  1. R131°/24°C · wind 16 km/h SSE, gusts 32 · 1.4 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the course Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
  2. R227°/24°C · wind 26 km/h SSE, gusts 46 · 0.7 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the course Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
  3. R328°/23°C · wind 17 km/h SW, gusts 39 · 2.2 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the course Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
  4. R426°/20°C · wind 25 km/h W, gusts 41 · 0 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the course Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis

The name over time

  1. PGA Championship

1916–2026 in our record, 108 editions.

The ones it got away from

  • Bubba Watson USA · 277Closed with 68 to set the clubhouse target and birdied the first playoff hole, but hit his 6-iron second on the 18th into the creek and lost the three-hole aggregate playoff by one stroke Martin Kaymer wins PGA in playoff (AP via ESPN)
  • Dustin Johnson USA · 279Led by one standing on the 72nd tee, then was given a two-stroke penalty for grounding his club in a trampled bunker right of the 18th fairway, turning a bogey 5 into a 7 and a playoff place into T5 Martin Kaymer wins PGA in playoff (AP via ESPN)

156 started · cut +1, 71 made it

Same week

Men's major

PGA Championship

Whistling Straits (Straits Course), Kohler

4 of 5 researched

Winner

Martin Kaymer

277Total
−11To par
playoff: 3-hole aggregate (holes 10, 17, 18); beat Bubba Watson; Kaymer 4-2-5 = 11; Watson 3-3-6 = 12; 18 (aggregate settled)Margin
PlayoffDecided

Runner-up: Bubba Watson

From the papers

ASAP Sports (interview transcript)

I said to my caddie on the sixth hole, I said, "It doesn't really matter what happened today, but it's the first time in my career that I'm leading a major championship."

Martin Kaymer, quoted in ASAP Sports (interview transcript), 15 August 2010. The report

AP via ESPN

I don't realize what happened. I just won my first major. I've got goose bumps just talking about it.

Martin Kaymer, quoted in AP via ESPN, 15 August 2010. The report

ASAP Sports (interview transcript)

I play to win a golf tournament. I don't play to lay up and hopefully make a par and tie or win.

Bubba Watson, quoted in ASAP Sports (interview transcript), 15 August 2010. The report
Top 10
PosPlayerRoundsTotalTo par
1Martin Kaymer72 · 68 · 67 · 70277−11
2Bubba Watson68 · 71 · 70 · 68277−11
T3Zach Johnson69 · 70 · 69 · 70278−10
T3Rory McIlroy71 · 68 · 67 · 72278−10
T5Steve Elkington71 · 70 · 67 · 71279−9
T5Jason Dufner73 · 66 · 69 · 71279−9
T5Dustin Johnson71 · 68 · 67 · 73279−9
T8Camilo Villegas71 · 71 · 70 · 68280−8
T8Wen-Chong Liang72 · 71 · 64 · 73280−8
T10Matt Kuchar67 · 69 · 73 · 72281−7
T10Jason Day69 · 72 · 66 · 74281−7
The golfer

born 1984-12-28, Düsseldorf, West Germany; GER; turned pro 2005; age 25 that week; tour wins to date: 1; majors to date: 1; world No. 13 that week (OWGR rankBefore (OWGR player profile events table, 92nd PGA Championship 2010)).

Martin Kaymer’s player card · Source

What’s in the bag

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