At the season's final major at Whistling Straits in Wisconsin, Martin Kaymer of Germany emerged as winner of the 92nd PGA Championship, edging Bubba Watson in a three-hole playoff.
Kaymer, who won his first major title, made a 15-foot par putt on the 72nd hole to tie Watson for the clubhouse lead at 11-under par, forcing the playoff.
American Dustin Johnson looked to join the pair as he birdied #17. However, his drive on #18 went well right of the fairway into a crowd of spectators. Not knowing that he was in a bunker that people had been walking in all week, Johnson ground his club into the sand before hitting his second shot into the rough behind the 18th green, eventually bogeying the hole and forcing what seemed like a three-man playoff. However, the PGA enforced a two-shot penalty on Johnson for the grounding, causing him to fall back to 9-under in a tie for fifth place.
In the playoff, Watson birdied the first hole at #10, while Kaymer answered with a birdie at #17. On the third playoff hole at 18, Watson's second shot was well short of green and fell into Seven Mile Creek. From there, Kaymar just needed bogey for the win and he calmly tapped in from two feet.
"I don't realize what happened," Kaymer said. "I just won my first major. I've got goose bumps just talking about it." Kaymer's win also moves him up to #5 in the world golf rankings and earned him $1.35 million.
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