Michael Campbell
Michael Campbell
Michael Shane Campbell, CNZMis a retired New Zealand professional golfer who is best known for having won the 2005 U.S. Open and the richest prize in golf, the £1,000,000 HSBC World Match Play Championship, in the same year. He played on the European Tour and the PGA Tour of Australasia...
ProfessionGolfer
Date of Birth23 February 1969
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We gelled very well. It was incredible how we putted so well on the back nine.
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He's the yardstick of how good we can get. He does things with his golf stick that we cannot do,
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He said to me, 'Michael, from now on you have responsibilities to promote this game around the world.' And that's what I'm doing. I think it's important for guys to go around the world and promote this game. I want to share my success with people from different parts of the world.
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I played great tee to green, but I had a few silly holes, ... Monty is up there doing his stuff again but I can't control what he does. I can just control my own destiny.
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I'm not that concerned. I mean 90%, you're probably 4 or 5% off a national average. If I'm still sitting here in the middle of June at that 90% I might be a lot more concerned.
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The consensus here is that ten hours on a plane is too far. You get cooks, cleaners, a great house, everything is free, you're playing for a million. Yet it's still not good enough for them. I'm totally bewildered.
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I just tried to give us some confidence.
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I remember that the PGA of Australia were one of the first to extend a sponsors' invitation to me when I was struggling back in 1997-98 and I am glad to be able to repay their support after the most exciting year of my career to date,
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Being seniors, we have to produce in these type of situations. We can't expect our freshmen to come through for us all the time.
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I knew I had to play well today. I enjoyed beating the two-time U.S. Open champion. But I have another job tomorrow. ... I just have to recharge the batteries.
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I knew I had to bring my 'A' game today and I did. I had a great start to the round with eagle on the fourth and that set the whole mood of the game. But the most important thing was that I couldn't let up and had to keep my foot on the accelerator.
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I knew, Phil knew, Vijay (Singh) knew, that once he gets over the stomach bug or whatever he's got, he's going to come out and play well, and he did.
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I played all right and Monty played some fantastic stuff,