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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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 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'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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It was pretty ugly out there. I kept telling myself: 'I'm the U.S. Open champion, I'm good enough to win this match.' It wasn't my best scoring day and I'll have to find my A game for Goosen.
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I want to play Memorial, but I can't play that now because of my restrictions. I feel that my wings have been clipped a little bit. I want to be a global player. I want to play in Europe and Australia and different parts of the world. But I couldn't commit to 15 events.
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It's definitely frustrating not being able to get runners in when you get them on in the early innings. But we stuck with it and we kept confidence.
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It's definitely frustrating. But we've got to look at it like the balls will eventually start falling.
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It's disheartening that we have the biggest prize in the world and half the guys don't turn up.
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It was a bit of a strange day. I made a fast start and he came back at me and suddenly I was four down after 18 holes.
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It was a different kind of tension from what I felt at the U.S. Open over the last nine holes, ... Its one-on-one, you're playing against a man not the golf course. Paul was such a tough competitor. I knew if I just let up one second, he would be right in there.
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To hold this trophy is a wonderful feeling,
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To have the first edge on the Americans on their home soil, it's a huge advantage. It's amazing how we got together so quickly as a team. We've got the same sort of mentality.