Golf: Campbell says 'enough'

New Zealander Michael Campbell intends taking an extended break from competitive golf after crashing out of the Masters today. Photo / Brett Phibbs

New Zealander Michael Campbell intends taking an extended break from competitive golf after crashing out of the Masters today.

Campbell made it 10 missed cuts in 10 appearances at Augusta after adding an 81 to his opening round 83 to be 20-over.

The former United States Open champion will withdraw from the Spanish Open starting on April 29 and the Italian Open the following week, and hinted he might also sit out the US Open commencing on June 17 at Pebble Beach.

Campbell has now posted scores in the 80s six times in a dozen rounds this season.

"It's been a pretty miserable start of the year for me and once again mentally it's just not there and I need get away from the game a little bit or maybe for a month or even six months," he said.

"I just need to get myself sorted out mentally because it's just not working and Michael Campbell should not be shooting these scores, simple as that."

Campbell said the week of the Masters was always a little different.

"It can really get to you and if you're not on you're A game it makes you look like an idiot," he said.

"A course like Augusta National, there is nowhere to hide and it just magnifies all your bad things and for two days I've been pretty bad."

He had come to Augusta hoping to turn his fortunes around but he was left feeling "pretty much the worst I've felt about my performances since I turned professional".

"That's why it's time to do something about it because this is ridiculous, as I shouldn't be hitting the shots I'm hitting," he said.

"I need to confront it and just rectify it. Enough is enough."

His second round at the Masters was a mix of two birdies, at the second and 12th holes, with four bogeys, two double bogeys and a triple bogey at the par-four 14th.

At the par-five 13th, he had been in Rae's Creek but managed to get up and down to save par.

From the next tee, Campbell played a poor drive, was short with his second shot and then played a poor chip that rolled some 15 metres away from the hole from where he needed a further four shots.

- NZPA