US Open: Martin Kaymer Claims Second Major

Kaymer Completes Wire-To-Wire US Open Win

Martin Kaymer set his sights on winning the Open Championship at Hoylake next month to complete a "German Grand Slam" following his wire-to-wire triumph in the US Open.

Kaymer cruised to an eight-shot victory over Rickie Fowler and Erik Compton at Pinehurst to add the US Open title to his US PGA Championship victory in 2010.

Kaymer has now won two of the three US-based majors

And with his friend and mentor Bernhard Langer having won the US Masters twice, the Open is the only major championship yet to have been won by a German player.

"We almost have the German Grand Slam, it's only the Open missing," Kaymer joked after a final round of 69 gave him a nine-under-par total of 271, the second lowest total in US Open history. "Winning the PGA, winning this one now, I hope it will make Bernhard proud. I'm sure it will make all Germany proud."

Successive rounds of 65 - the lowest in a US Open at Pinehurst - meant Kaymer had equalled the lowest halfway total in major championship history, as well as eclipsing the US Open record of 131 set by Rory McIlroy at Congressional in 2011.

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