Kaymer wins PGA golf Championship

American Bubba Watson and Germany's Martin Kaymer are in a playoff to decide the winner of the 92nd PGA Championship after a penalty kept American Dustin Johnson from joining them.Watson and Kaymer were level at 11-under 277 after the final round of the last major championship of the season.Johnson appeared to be set to join them in the playoff but he was slapped with a two-stroke penalty for grounding his club in a bunker on the 18th hole.

Martin Kaymer won the PGA Championship in a play-off but a split-second brush with a spectator-trampled sand trap cost Dustin Johnson his chance of a first grand slam win.The 26-year-old American Johnson took a one-shot lead into the 18th hole in the final major of the season when he was KO'd by the rule book at the Whistling Straits course."I think it is very sad he got a two-stroke penalty," Kaymer said."He played great golf. On this course it is very tough to see what is a bunker and what is not a bunker."

World number one Martin Kaymer of Germany and the rival he beat in a playoff for his first major title, American Bubba Watson, will play alongside each other again at the PGA Transitions Championship here on Thursday.Kaymer, Watson and American Nick Watney, a winner last week, were grouped together for the first and second rounds of the $5.5 million tournament at Innisbrook's 7,340-yard, par-71 Copperhead course.Watney comes off a victory at last week's World Golf Championships event at Doral, his sixth top-10 showing in a row dating to last year's PGA Tour Championship.

Tiger Woods will welcome US Open champion Graeme McDowell and PGA Championship winner Martin Kaymer of Germany to his five million-dollar World Challenge tournament in December.Woods, set to surrender his world number one ranking at the end of the month after a reign of 281 weeks, announced on Tuesday 15 of the 17 rivals he will face in his charity event from December 2-5 at Sherwood Golf Club.US veteran Jim Furyk, who won last month's Tour Championship, will defend the Challenge crown he won last year by one stroke over Northern Ireland's McDowell.

Fellow Irishman Padraig Harrington put the competition between Rory McIlroy and Tiger Woods for golf supremacy in perfect perspective Sunday after McIlroy romped to a record-setting eight-shot victory in the PGA Championship at Kiawah Island, S.C., for his second major triumph. ''Rory is showing that with his `A' game, everybody [...]

Germany's Martin Kaymer won the 1.5 million euro Abu Dhabi Golf Championship for the second time in three years Sunday when he prevailed over Ian Poulter by one shot.Kaymer, who started the day one ahead of Poulter and Rory McIlroy, shot a six-under par 66 to finish with a four-day tally of 21-under-par 267.Poulter matched him with a 66 of his own, but Kaymer edged ahead with a birdie on the final hole.

Rory McIlroy stormed to his second major title on Sunday as he won the PGA Championship by eight shots at Kiawah Island in South Carolina and returned to the top of the world golf rankings.

Germany's Martin Kaymer looks set for an unprecedented third Abu Dhabi Golf Championship title as he opened up a five shot lead after the third round of the 2.7 million dollars European Tour event here on Saturday.The European No1 and US PGA Championship winner shot his second consecutive bogey-free round - this time a six-under par 66 - to open his formidable lead at 18-under 198.