Sky Sports pundit in disbelief over ‘incredible’ Martin Kaymer fact as US Open returns to Pinehurst

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Sky Sports pundit Jamie Spence was left stunned after learning one fact about Martin Kaymer as the German prepares to return to Pinehurst No.2 for the US Open this week.

Few players have mastered playing at Pinehurst quite like Martin Kaymer did back in 2014, when the US Open returned to the North Carolina course for a third time.

Just four players have ever shot under par in a US Open at Pinehurst No. 2, with three of them finishing on -1. Kaymer meanwhile, won the 2014 US Open by eight shots on -9.

It was the 39-year-old’s second major championship win after the 2010 PGA Championship. He had also won the Players Championship in 2014, so it appeared to be a return to form for the European who had gone almost three years without a victory beforehand.

Sky pundit stunned as Martin Kaymer prepares for Pinehurst return

Remarkably however, the LIV Golf star has not won over the last decade – something which really surprised Jamie Spence on the Sky Sports Golf Podcast.

“Is that right? That’s incredible, isn’t it, to think of that. The thing is with Martin, he tried to change his game for a period there, didn’t he, tried to get a draw, but this was in that period when he was playing that little cut,” he said.

“He had chipping woes, after that, you saw him because he putted everything round Pinehurst. He had chipping woes and it sort of went to his game a bit. It’s very difficult to compete if you’ve got a flaw in your game that glaring. But yeah, you would never have said that. Never.”

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Kaymer was one of those players you could really not blame for going to LIV Golf when he did, as his career appeared to be on something of a decline.

He had not played in a Ryder Cup since 2016, and he registered one top three finish on the DP World Tour between 2015 and 2019.

Kaymer himself has admitted recently that he cannot believe that he has gone a decade without a victory, so it will be very interesting to see how he gets on this week.

You would imagine that few will be tipping him to compete with the likes of Scottie Scheffler and Xander Schauffele. But what he did in 2014 remains one of the great major championship performances of the modern era.