{"id":42240,"date":"2020-08-07T06:19:00","date_gmt":"2020-08-07T03:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/pga-championship-jason-day-martin-kaymer-have-strong-first-rounds\/"},"modified":"2020-08-07T06:19:00","modified_gmt":"2020-08-07T03:19:00","slug":"pga-championship-jason-day-martin-kaymer-have-strong-first-rounds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/pga-championship-jason-day-martin-kaymer-have-strong-first-rounds\/","title":{"rendered":"#PGA Championship: Jason Day, Martin Kaymer have strong first rounds"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#PGA Championship: Jason Day, Martin Kaymer have strong first rounds<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

\n SAN FRANCISCO \u2014 You may have wondered where Jason Day and Martin Kaymer have been.<\/p>\n

Two of the top international golfers of the past decade have seen their form dip in recent years and neither has spent a lot of time in the tournament spotlight.<\/p>\n

That changed Thursday in the opening round of the PGA Championship at TPC Harding Park, where Day, from Australia, seized a share of the early lead with Brendon Todd with a 5-under-par 65 and Kaymer, from Germany, is one back with a 66, tied with eight other players at 4-under, including two-time defending champion Brooks Koepka and Justin Rose.<\/p>\n

Tiger Woods, who entered the week having played only four tournament rounds since February, is also in good position after shooting a 2-under 68, his first opening round in the 60s in a major championship since 2014, when he began the British Open with a 69 at Royal Liverpool.<\/p>\n

Kaymer, who won the 2010 PGA Championship and the 2014 U.S. Open, entered this week having played only one tournament in 2020 \u2014 last week\u2019s Barracuda Championship, where he missed the cut.<\/p>\n

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Martin Kaymer and Jason Day<\/span>Getty Images; AP<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Suffice it to say, Kaymer didn\u2019t come to San Francisco with a lot of mojo.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s why he decided to try to create his own mojo Wednesday night.<\/p>\n

\u201cExpectations were very low, to be honest, because I didn\u2019t really know where my game<\/a> was at,\u2019\u2019 Kaymer said. \u201cI knew I was playing OK, but on a golf course like this, OK play doesn\u2019t really get you far. Knowing this going into this week, I needed something. So [Wednesday] night I was watching the U.S. Open actually from 2014, the back nine, trying to get some kind of positivity in my game because it hasn\u2019t been much recently because of no play.<\/p>\n

\u201cDefinitely that video \u2026 helped me to believe that my putting was good enough; that my ball-striking was good enough, even though it\u2019s a few years back, but it\u2019s always nice to remember those moments and feel the same that you felt that day.\u2019\u2019<\/p>\n

How did this idea come about?<\/p>\n

\u201cI was going for some dinner and on the way home I didn\u2019t feel that good,\u2019\u2019 he said. \u201cI was not that happ<\/a>y for some reason. I don\u2019t know, sometimes that happens. And then I thought I needed to lift my spirit a little bit. And I went on YouTube<\/a> and I found that video, I think it\u2019s an hour and 45 minutes or so, of us playing the back nine. I just watched it. I mean, there\u2019s not much to do right now other than hanging out in your hotel room by yourself.\u2019\u2019<\/p>\n

Asked when the last time he dialed up that video for motivation, Kaymer said it was \u201ca long, long time \u2026 maybe four, five years.\u2019\u2019<\/p>\n

\u201cI like to go back to those moments,\u2019\u2019 he said. \u201cI know you shouldn\u2019t live in the past, but if the past can help you in the present moment, I\u2019ll take it.\u2019\u2019<\/p>\n

So he did.<\/p>\n

Day, like Kaymer, is a former PGA champion, winning his at Whistling Straits in 2015. And he, too, has struggled with his form of late, partially because of ongoing back issues.<\/p>\n

But Day\u2019s form has come around in recent weeks, with a tie for seventh at the Workday event at Muirfield, a tie for fourth the following week at the Memorial and a tie for sixth last week in Memphis.<\/p>\n

\u201cI feel like the momentum that I\u2019ve had over the last three starts has kind of seeped into this week,\u2019\u2019 Day said. \u201cEvery day I\u2019m excited to go back to the golf course and play, whereas before I was struggling to get up and going, \u2018Oh, do I want to kind of put myself through this again?\u2019 To be honest, I\u2019m excited to get out and play every week now.\u2019\u2019<\/p>\n

Todd, too, should be excited to come out based on his hot play of late. He has two wins already this season and had chances to win a couple more that were ruined by poor final rounds.<\/p>\n

Todd followed a Saturday 61 that gave him the lead entering the final round of the Travel<\/a>ers Championship and closed with a 75 to lose to Dustin Johnson. He, too, was in the mix last week in Memphis, where he shot another Sunday 75 with no birdies, just like at Travelers.\n <\/p><\/div>\n

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