Kaymer already proved he has a head for heights
Trailing 10-6, which in these international team competitions can be interpreted as insurmountable, it figured to matter not at all. By the 11th match, it was assumed the Americans would have clinched it and Kaymer’s Ryder Cup involvement would be a distant memory. He had played in just one team match — a sloppy and poorly-executed four-ball loss alongside Justin Rose late on the Friday — then he had sat on a golf cart all of Saturday.
Others may have felt badly for Kaymer, but he did not. “I wouldn’t have put myself on the team,” he said.
