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
finishing stumble
Fortunately enough I managed to stumble over the finishing line,
foot holes nine played player
He's a world-class player and he showed that today. I was on the back foot with nine holes to play. He just played awesome.
air ball barrel good left piece plate trying
He just left the ball over the plate. I was just trying to get the ball up in the air for a sac fly. But he left it over the plate and I got a good piece of the barrel on it.
arrived british concerned dad leads mum next safety security shocked week zealand
My mum and dad have just arrived from New Zealand and they are shocked just as I am but it leads me to be now concerned about security and safety next week for the British Open,
days focusing happened hopefully job low mind next putting shoot three weeks
My putting was very average. Basically, I wasn't there. My mind was focusing back to what happened two weeks ago, I think, and just wasn't on the job today. Hopefully the next three days I'll shoot low and be in contention.
fantastic played
I played all right and Monty played some fantastic stuff,
expect freshmen produce type
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.
tried
I just tried to give us some confidence.
australia career exciting extend glad invitation remember repay struggling support year
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,
again control few great played silly stuff tee
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.
june mean middle might national sitting
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.
cannot golf good yardstick
He's the yardstick of how good we can get. He does things with his golf stick that we cannot do,
control golf good great nine played
He played great on the first nine holes. That's good golf and you can't control that,
aspects changed formula great management
I changed management groups. All of these aspects are very important for me to succed this year, ... I've got a great formula going right now.