Kaymer caution over hat-trick bid

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The young German headed to Turnberry from Loch Lomond on Sunday night as both the French and Scottish Open champion following an eight-day double worth than £1million.

The Dusseldorf star said: "Everybody asks me about the third win in a row, but we are playing a major and the field is going to be the best we have all year long."

He will try to become the first player to win three consecutive European Tour titles since Seve Ballesteros in 1986.

This time, of course, he will have to beat world number one Tiger Woods, one of the few players who have ever done such a hat-trick - 10 years ago when he won the last two events of the US Tour season, then travelled to Spain and added the American Express world championship.

Kaymer, now second on the Race To Dubai money list and a best-ever 11th in the world, followed his play-off victory over Lee Westwood in Paris with a two-stroke win over France's Raphael Jacquelin and Spaniard Gonzalo Fernandez-Castano.

"I think if you win in the home of golf in Scotland it's always very special," he continued.

"I struggled after my first two wins (he missed the cut both times), but this week was different. I don't know why, but just my form I think.

"I'm playing so solid and not making any big mistakes - and my short game is good.

"I've never been to Turnberry, but my manager played there a couple of weeks ago and said it's going to be really, really difficult. That's always good. If you play majors they should be difficult."