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
bring eagle foot fourth game great knew mood round start today
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.
backside great played quite seeing today
Seeing Retief's backside all day today was quite different. Obviously, he played great and he was holing all his putts.
backside quite seeing today
Seeing Retief's backside all day today was quite different,
course darts difficult greens harder rain throwing today
The rain is making the course play so much harder and while it was like throwing darts at the greens yesterday, today it was a lot more difficult to find the hole.
beating enjoyed job knew open
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.
bug gets phil stomach whatever
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.
consensus good great hours plane playing ten totally
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.
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.
best game good kept open scoring telling ugly win
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.
australia commit europe global parts wings
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.
definitely early kept runners stuck
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.
balls definitely eventually start
It's definitely frustrating. But we've got to look at it like the balls will eventually start falling.
biggest guys half prize turn
It's disheartening that we have the biggest prize in the world and half the guys don't turn up.
bit came fast four start strange suddenly
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.