Upset Martin Kaymer sets the record straight

Martin Kaymer got ever so slightly aggrieved yesterday as he held court in the PGA Championship interview room at Whistling Straits.

He had won his first major here in Wisconsin in 2010, a victory that capped a remarkable season for the European Tour as it followed Graeme McDowell’s US Open and Louis Oosthuizen’s Open successes at Pebble Beach and St Andrews respectively.

Yet for some at his press conference here by the shores of Lake Michigan, there was a sense his victory was less a case of the German’s majestic putting and ball-striking that week and more that he was a beneficiary of a quirky course design with its 1000-plus bunkers and the way one of them derailed an unfortunate Dustin Johnson.