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Martin Kaymer (-18) is the undisputed leader of the Abu Dhabi Golf Championship HSBC after the third day. The German will start tomorrow with a tasty margin of five strokes over Rory McIlroy. Just a couple of things that prevent us from securing strongly that the last day will be a walk down the Champs Elysees to the Teutonic …

One: if someone is able to string a birdie after another and finished the tournament with a scandal is Vueltona McIlroy. Bad enemy to anyone.

Two: a gray day will need to have good Kaymer in the Abu Dhabi Golf Club. Makes ‘sixty-odd’ like hotcakes. Today ended on the 18th hole with a kind of nervous smile, shy, as if to say I do not really know why, but I get around this field.

If any of these two factors in the equation, the trophy and we can go poking into the pocket of German.

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Sunday ended the Dubai World Championship, a tournament worth 7.5 million euros in prize money, contest last season in the Race to Dubai European Tour golf.

The final victory corresponded to Swede Robert Karlsson, but still more was the title for the German Martin Kaymer who took the Race to Dubai, which means being the best European player of the year, also taking a hefty premium of 1.3 million euros.

Karlsson overcame a tiebreaker to English Ian Poulter, who had taken command of the tournament in the second round.

Poulter ended the final day with 70 hits, while Swede Karlsson impacts did with 67 after scoring five birdies, the last in the hole 18 -, an eagle and two bogeys.

The first playoff hole ended even, while in the second Poulter made a bogey and Karlsson scored a birdie that gave him the tournament title.

Great performance also met Cadiz Alvaro Quiros, who finished third in big comeback after a slow start the first day.

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German golfer Martin Kaymer, who on Thursday will begin its participation in the Masters Andalucia Valderrama in order to unseat Tiger Woods world title, said he did not expect to “fight for number one so soon.”

Kaymer, as reported by the tournament organizers in a statement, acknowledged at a news conference that his main goal is to “win the Race of Dubai”, but now plays “more confident” and enjoy “more in the field.”

The German, who arrives at Valderrama after winning the last three tournaments he has played, the U.S. PGA Championship, the KLM Open and Dunhill Alfred Ryder Cup as well as the European team, stressed that, if not out of bounds to Cadiz number one, will have “more opportunities” to do in his career.

Kaymer has emphasized that Valderrama is one of the most beautiful courses in the world “and one of his favorite without a doubt,” so when I heard that the Masters Andalucia would be played in San Roque decided to sign “immediately “.

Tiger Woods lasted one week his lead in the golf world rankings, followed by England’s Lee Westwood and German Martin Kaymer, who has taken the third place by American Phil Mickelson and stars in the only change of positions among the top ten.

Woods, who has 281 weeks in a row in front of the standings, will return to competition in early November Martin Kaymer, winner of the US PGA championship, was fourth last week at the Grand Slam Cup, proves that brings together the winners of the Big Four of the season in two days at Port Royal Golf Course, Southampton (Bermuda), where the victory took Ernie Els. The South African has won none in 2010 and participated in place of Phil Mickelson, who stands out through injury.

The U.S. Open Champion Golf, Northern Ireland’s Graeme McDowell, hopes to have a good result and plan to leave with a winning attitude in the season-ending event in the United States, the PGA Grand Slam of Golf, to be held in Bermuda and where every year involving the winners of the four majors.

Along with the British ‘hero’ of the last European Ryder Cup will be Germany’s Martin Kaymer, who won the PGA Championship, while Phil Mickelson missed the U.S. and South African Louis Oosthuizen, winners of the Masters and the ‘British’, respectively , and will be replaced by South African Ernie Els and American David Toms. The San Diego will not participate in the tournament suffering from arthritis, while the South African ganadorel Bermuda will not play due to an ankle injury.

McDowell has its sights set on victory in the prestigious event four players, but said the home you’re looking to enjoy two days of competition in the field of Port Royal Golf Course in Southampton, as much as possible.

“It will be a great experience to be there this week. There will be an element of fun in it, but I’m also looking to try to make a show as a big winner in ‘major’,” said