Martin Kaymer got over his French weekend flop by spending four hours mowing and weeding his grandmother’s lawns.
Kaymer finished last in the prestigious French event with shock weekend scores of 78 and 77 for a 16-over par total on the 2018 Ryder Cup host venue.
The World No. 14 drove home but then spent some four hours on Monday at his 85-year old grandmother’s house in what Kaymer described as ‘great theraphy’.
Martin Kaymer fresh from mowing and weeding his grandmother's lawn. (Photo - www.golfbytourmiss.com)
“When I arrived here in Scotland, I felt very relaxed, very refreshed after having a couple of days at home, and after my weekend scores in France,” said Kaymer.
“I drove home from France and then on Monday was a relaxing day at my grandma’s house where I did work for her in the backyard.
“I mowed the lawns and then I pulled out, how you say it in English, the bad flowers – the weeds in the lawn.
“I really enjoyed it and it was fun. It’s a different thing to do. I look at it as therapy. To get completely away from golf and just do normal work, and what normal people do.
“That’s why I enjoy it once in a while.”
And with the media enjoying the story, Kaymer was asked if his grandmother (his father’s mother) Inca paid him for mowing the lawns and cutting the hedge.
“No, there was no rate,” he smiled.
“Just a cup of coffee and a cake after I had finished.
“But it’s just nice to go back to the old days, lets say when I was a kid. I used to play in the backyard a lot with my brother who played football, and I would go to my grand parents house and have a completely normal day where you just hang out with your family, talk about completely different stuff. Stuff other than birdies, world rankings and golf courses, how many bunkers are there and stuff like that.
“But my grand mother is fit and she still gives me instructions. Though she knows nothing about golf.”
Kaymer, who captured the 2009 Scottish Open and a week after winning the French title, will play the first two rounds of this year’s event in the company of Dane Thomas Bjorn and Scotland’s Scott Jamieson.
