Former world number one Martin Kaymer (Mettmann) missed the cut at the Czech Masters.After the end of the second round, which was broken off on Friday because of a thunderstorm, Germany’s top golfer with 147 strokes was only 83rd in the classification.Two strokes were missing for Kaymer to reach the last two rounds.
This means that only two Germans will be represented at the 1.0 million euro tournament.After a strong third round on Saturday afternoon with four birdies Bernd Ritthammer (Nuremberg) stayed three strokes below the course standard (par 72) and moved up to the split eleventh place with 211 strokes.Christian Bräunig from Mannheim, Germany, scores 215 strokes in the 44th division.Place.England’s Lee Slattery leads with 204 strokes before the last round on Sunday.
Like Kaymer, Sebastian Heisele (Munich/152) and Alexander Knappe (Paderborn) also failed at the cut.Florian Fritsch (Munich) was disqualified after a mistake on his score card, but would have missed the cut with 146 strokes anyway.
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The tournament in Prague is the prelude to qualifying for the Ryder Cup 2018 in Paris (28th place).till 30.September).The recently weakened Kaymer hopes to qualify for the fifth consecutive continental comparison against defending champions USA for the fifth time.