Sunday, September 12, 2010

CLASSY KAYMER WINS KLM OPEN BY FOUR

FROM THE AOL GOLF NEWS  SERVICE
German Martin Kaymer coasted to a four-stroke victory today in the European Tour's KLM Open at Hilversum - four weeks after his US PGA triumph.
The European Tour No 1, making his last appearance before his Ryder Cup debut, closed with a four under par 66 after leading by one at the start of the day.
It gave 25-year-old Kaymer a 14 under total of 266, with Swede Christian Nilsson and Paraguay's Fabrizio Zanotti second on 10 under.
Kaymer's second successive victory takes him more than £412,000 clear of Northern Ireland's Graeme McDowell - Europe's other current major champion - at the top of the European Tour money list.
Kaymer's triumph at Whistling Straits last month started the amazing run of success by Colin Montgomerie's Ryder Cup players.
Peter Hanson won a week later at the Czech Open, then Edoardo Molinari in the Johnnie Walker Championship and Miguel Angel Jimenez last week at the Omega European Masters.
Kaymer, who says his top choices as partners for Celtic Manor would be Rory McIlroy, Lee Westwood and Luke Donald, now heads back to his Arizona base to prepare for his cup debut.
His only mistake on the final day was a bogey at the short 10th, but he had gone to the turn in 33 to be three clear and a birdie two holes later widened the gap again.
Nilsson did chip in on the 210-yard 15th, but followed it with a bogey and Kaymer knew the £248,364 first prize was his after making a 10-foot putt on the same hole.
He added another birdie on the par-five last for good measure, while Zanotti and Nilsson, producing performances that will ensure they keep their Tour cards for next season, also two-putted there for fours that lifted them clear of Open champion Louis Oosthuizen, England's David Horsey and Spanish pair Jose Manuel Lara and Gonzalo Fernandez-Castano.
Francesco Molinari and Ross Fisher were the other two Ryder Cup players in the field and they finished eighth and 11th respectively.

FINAL TOTALS
Par 280 (4x70)266 Martin Kaymer (Ger) 67 67 66 66
270 Christian Nilsson (Swe) 68 65 68 69, Fabrizio Zanotti (Par) 68 68 65 69
271 David Horsey 67 67 69 68, Louis Oosthuizen (Rsa) 73 67 66 65, Gonzalo Fernandez-Castano (Spa) 66 69 67 69, Jose Manuel Lara (Spa) 67 68 71 65
272 Francesco Molinari (Ita) 68 71 67 66, Felipe Aguilar (Chi) 69 69 68 66, Nicolas Colsaerts (Bel) 62 70 70 70
273 Daniel Vancsik (Arg) 68 66 71 68, Chris Wood 67 70 70 66, Shiv Kapur (Ind) 64 68 70 71, Ross Fisher 65 74 68 66, Todd Hamilton (USA) 66 67 70 70, Tano Goya (Arg) 65 70 71 67
274 Christian Cevaer (Fra) 72 68 66 68, Robert Coles 67 72 67 68, Jean-Francois Lucquin (Fra) 66 67 71 70, Ignacio Garrido (Spa) 67 67 72 68, Darren Clarke 68 71 67 68
275 John Parry 70 67 70 68, Markus Brier (Aut) 68 69 71 67, Gregory Bourdy (Fra) 69 69 70 67, James Morrison 68 69 70 68
276 Jeev Milkha Singh (Ind) 69 65 71 71, Damien McGrane 68 67 72 69, Matteo Manassero (Ita) 68 72 69 67, Kenneth Ferrie 64 72 70 70, Raphael Jacquelin (Fra) 65 70 69 72, Graeme Storm 69 70 71 66, Brett Rumford (Aus) 69 65 72 70, Niclas Fasth (Swe) 70 68 69 69
277 Jeppe Huldahl (Den) 68 71 67 71, Peter Hedblom (Swe) 68 70 68 71, Peter Lawrie 69 68 69 71, David Lynn 67 71 69 70, Alvaro Quiros (Spa) 69 69 70 69, Pablo Larrazabal (Spa) 66 70 74 67, Alejandro Canizares (Spa) 68 68 70 71, Thomas Levet (Fra) 68 72 66 71
278 Richard Bland 72 68 69 69, Robert Karlsson (Swe) 67 68 74 69, Tomas Aiken (Rsa) 68 71 69 70, Eirik Tage Johansen (Nor) 72 66 69 71, Scott Strange (Aus) 72 68 71 67, Danny Willett 67 67 75 69, Clodomiro Carranza (Arg) 70 69 69 70, Cameron Tringale (USA) 70 70 68 70
279 Jose-Filipe Lima (Por) 65 72 72 70, Jurrian Van der vaart (Ned) 70 70 71 68, Shane Lowry 71 69 69 70, David Dixon 71 69 70 69, Sion E Bebb 70 68 72 69, Alastair Forsyth 66 74 69 70, Peter O'Malley (Aus) 68 69 73 69
280 Charl Schwartzel (Rsa) 70 68 69 73, Joost Luiten (Ned) 65 69 75 71, Gareth Maybin 72 67 72 69, Oskar Henningsson (Swe) 72 65 73 70, Simon Thornton 69 71 70 70, George Coetzee (Rsa) 69 69 76 66, Michael Hoey 72 67 66 75
281 Richie Ramsay 65 72 69 75, David Howell 69 71 73 68, Sam Little 67 71 73 70
282 Paul Waring 67 68 76 71, Nick Dougherty 65 72 73 72
283 Steve Webster 69 68 76 70, Tim Sluiter (Ned) 70 69 73 71, Julien Guerrier (Fra) 71 68 73 71
284 Rafael Cabrera Bello (Spa) 68 71 70 75
285 Sam Hutsby 71 67 73 74, Gary Boyd 71 69 73 72
286 Johan Edfors (Swe) 67 73 71 75
287 Martin Erlandsson (Swe) 68 70 78 71, Jarmo Sandelin (Swe) 70 70 73 74
289 Danny Lee (Nzl) 67 72 77 73



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