Golf: Kaymer makes early Dutch exit

HILVERSUM: World number three Martin Kaymer said he was ‘a little shocked’ at the sudden reversal of form that saw him make an early exit from the Dutch Open. A one-under 69 when he returned to finish his disrupted second round was not enough to rescue the 2010 US PGA champion, whose three-over 143 total was three shots off the cut mark. Kaymer is now in serious danger of losing his world ranking place to U.S. Open champion and world number four Rory McIlroy. Kaymer paid dearly for two wayward shots that cost him double-bogeys on the sixth and seventh holes.

Published in The Express Tribune, September 11^th, 2011.