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Martin Kaymer (; born 28 December 1984) is a German professional golfer. A winner of two major championships, he was also the No. 1 ranked golfer in the Official World Golf Ranking for eight weeks in 2011. Born in Düsseldorf, West Germany, Kaymer turned professional at age 20 in 2005 and is a member of the European Tour. He has won eleven tournaments on the tour including four in 2010 to win for the first time the Race to Dubai, formerly the Order of Merit. Among those wins was the PGA Championship in the United States, which made him only the second German (after Bernhard Langer) to win a major championship. He also won the WGC-HSBC Champions to become the tenth player to win both a major title and a World Golf Championship event. Kaymer sank a putt on the 18th hole on the final day of the Ryder Cup in 2012, which retained the cup for Europe and successfully overturned a four-point deficit against the United States at the start of the final day's play. In May 2014, Kaymer won the The Players Championship, the flagship event of the PGA Tour. A month later, he led each round of the U.S. Open and won his second major by eight strokes. ==Early professional career== Kaymer picked up his first professional win at the age of 20 as an amateur at the Central German Classic in 2005 on the third-tier EPD Tour. He shot a −19 (67-64-66=197) to win the tournament by a margin of five strokes.〔(Central German Classic 2005 – Results )〕 Kaymer played full-time on the EPD Tour in 2006 from February to August. He played in 14 tournaments and picked up five victories. He finished in the top 10 in all but two of the tournaments.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=GolfBox Livescoring – Order of Merit )〕 Kaymer won the Order of Merit on the EPD Tour in 2006 by earning €26,664. Kaymer shot a round of 59 (−13) in the second round of the Habsburg Classic. This was his scorecard: Due to his success on the EPD Tour, Kaymer received an invitation to compete in and then won his first event on the Challenge Tour, the Vodafone Challenge in his native Germany.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=2006 Vodafone Challenge – Leaderboard )〕 He played in eight events from August to October winning again a month later at the Open des Volcans in France.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=2006 Open des Volcans - Challenge de France – Leaderboard )〕 Kaymer ended up finishing 4th on the Order of Merit list despite playing in only eight events. In all he earned €93,321.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Martin Kaymer – Career Record )〕 He finished in the top 5 in six tournaments, and his worst finish was a 13th place finish. Due to Kaymer's success on the Challenge Tour, he earned a European Tour card for 2007. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Martin Kaymer」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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