Kaymer sets final round pace
German Martin Kaymer led the USPGA Championship - final major of the golfing year - by two shots with eight holes to play at a windswept Whistling Straits.
And it had as much to do with the collapse of overnight leader Nick Watney as his own play. Watney was three clear with a round to go, but double-bogeyed the opening hole and triple-bogeyed the short seventh after pushing his tee shot into the rocks and from there into Lake Michigan.
Kaymer was 12 under par, but Rory McIlroy's matching birdie on the 10th brought him back alongside former winner Steve Elkington, now 47, and big-hitting American left-hander Bubba Watson in second place.
McIlroy, who resumed three behind Watney, scrambled well early on, but then bogeyed the fourth following a bad drive.
He got that shot back on the seventh, but bogeyed the next.
Watney, all the way down to joint 11th, also bogeyed the fourth, eighth and ninth in a nightmare outward 43.
His playing partner Dustin Johnson had every sympathy. He was three in front after 54 holes of the US Open in June and shot 82 to let in Northern Ireland's Graeme McDowell.
Johnson this time retained his hopes of making amends by matching McIlroy's one-over effort going out.
In the separate battle for the Ryder Cup places, England's Paul Casey produced his best round in a long time and would have set the clubhouse lead until he bogeyed the last, where he lipped out with an 18-foot chip.
As a result he shared 11th spot with world number two Phil Mickelson, who had posted six under with a best-of-the-day 67, and had to wait to see if that was enough to lift him into an automatic qualifying spot for the US team.
