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The former world number one Martin Kaymer is shocked to see the inclusion of Brand Snedeker in the US Ryder Cup team. The US skipper Davis Love III chose the rookie Snedeker as his pick ahead of Hunter Mahan and Rickie Fowler. Love’s four picks were Dustin Johnson, Steve Stricker, Jim Furyk and Snedeker.

Kaymer is really astonished with the picking of Snedeker ahead of Mahan or Fowler. He told that although it was a tough choice between Mahan, Fowler and Brandt but the experience of Mahan or Fowler would be an asset. Snedeker is a real good player but the other two have been a part of the 2010 US Ryder Cup team and they know the pressure.

The German golfer has been out of the circuit for a few weeks and now he is preparing for the KLM Open. Having won the last automatic spot of the European Ryder Cup team, he seems a little relaxed now. He is grouped with the European captain Olazabal and his would-be-teammate in the Ryder Cup, Nicolas Colsaerts. Martin Kaymer reported that they should be sharing their thoughts on the Ryder Cup but his main aim would be to open his title account of this year.

The anxious moments are gone, said Kaymer, as he has been selected in the team. He withdrew his name from the final European Qualifying event last month and it could happen that Kaymer wouldn’t get a spot in the team if Nicolas Colsaerts had finished among the top two at the Johnnie Walker Championship. Kaymer appreciated Colsaerts performance and he wouldn’t have been so unhappy if Colsaerts were to take his place.

Martin Kaymer is a kind of a guy who doesn’t look at the leaderboard if he’s not in that championship. But he told that he was observing Colsaerts’ efforts at the Gleneagles as he was a little doubtful about his own place at the team.

Martin Kaymer, the 27-year-old former world’s No. 1 kept a tactful silence if Tiger Woods could reclaim the top rank. The German said that it will take time before Woods scored another wins.

He refused to comment further if Woods would be included again in the top 10 after his career fell when it was tainted with a scandal.

However, Kaymer said, “we will see,” and praising Woods’s success at Arnold Palmer Invitational in Bay Hill which beaten his two and a half years without winning after the exposé on his love life.

Kaymer further said that Woods’s victory was ‘amazing’ and ‘fantastic,’ so he believed that Woods being the best player, time alone will tell when he will be back to achieving more wins in any tournaments again.

Woods, the 36-year-old fourteen-time winner of major events, fell down from the top 50 rank in 2011, but came back to as high as 6th spot. After his failure in US Masters, he now rests in 8th, with Kaymer ahead of him by one place.

Rory McIlroy, Lee Westwood, and Luke Donald, who represent the top three, form the tough barrier to both Kaymer and Woods. However, Kaymer said that it only needs patience to regain the position he maintained for eight weeks in 2011. He also said that he is playing fine and sometimes patience is the hardest thing to deal with.

According to Kaymer, the top 5 are all playing very well, and even the top 10 or 15 where everyone plays close together, making every week a great competition.

Kaymer had six birdies against a single bogey, a par-four on the 13th; he missed his chance to get an eagle on the par-five 3rd as the ten-time winner on the European Tour pursues his first win after the WGC-HSBC Champions.