Martin Kaymer is a professional golfer from Germany and is a former world number one, having reached the top of the Official Golf World Rankings in 2011. He scaled the top of the rankings by finishing as the runner up in the World Golf Championship Accenture Match Play Championship but he would rule the golf world only for eight weeks before losing the top spot to English golfer Lee Westwood.
Born in Dusseldorf in Germany in 1984, Kaymer turned professional at the age of 21 years in 2005. He joined the European Tour in that same year. Till date, Kaymer has won 10 titles on the European Tour, four of which came in 2010, winning the Race to Dubai, which was formerly known as the Order of Merit. Among those wins that won Martin Kaymer the Race to Dubai title was The PGA Championship, a win that made him only the second German in history to win a Major championship after the legendary Bernhard Langer.
Kaymer also went on to win the World Golf Championship HSBC Champions in 2011, thus becoming only the tenth player in the history of golf to win a major championship as well as a World Golf Championship event. The German was the star man for the European team in the Ryder Cup of 2012, and he sank a putt in the 18th hole on the final day of the event to help his European team retain the Ryder Cup.
The European team overturned a deficit of four points against the United States team on the final day, a performance that brought Martin Kaymer fame throughout the European golf circuit and he was hailed as one of the brightest prospects for Europe against the barrage of American golfers that tend to dominate the world of golf.