Former champion Kaymer reflects on returning to Pinehurst for U.S. Open

Martin Kaymer discusses winning 2014 U.S. Open and hopes it'll give him confidence for this year's tournament

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00:00I haven't been back since since I won there so it's obviously I have a lot of

00:04good memories the way I played golf all week obviously was good but what Bryson

00:11was just talking about you know that's that excitement that you have all week

00:14long you know being in contention being on top trying to ride that wave as long

00:18as possible and I was very proud of myself very similar to what he just said

00:23the way I was handling myself all week long because it's quite difficult

00:27leading a golf tournament by that many shots especially a big big golf

00:31tournament not only you expecting yourself to win but everybody's

00:35expecting you to win and that is very difficult to continue and not compare

00:39yourself to what you have done the last couple days so every day I started new

00:43and I enjoyed I enjoyed playing golf I enjoyed the golf course and I enjoyed

00:51the challenge and sometimes you tell yourself I want to go out there and have

00:55fun but it's not that easy you know sometimes if you have a tough start then

00:59you do get nervous you you do have some shaky shots and if you pull them off the

01:05way you want them that gives you the ultimate confidence and then you can

01:08continue your journey so and I and I did that really well back then and this is

01:14what I'm searching for you know right now and pinehurst obviously has a lot of

01:18good memories for me and hopefully with the forum that is trending in the right

01:24direction and the positivity that I gained back then in pinehurst will

01:28hopefully create some good scores