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Michael Campbell says the PGA Tour in the United States is the same week after week and he far prefers a globetrotting golfing life.
Campbell, fresh from winning the Goodwill Trophy with the Rest of the World Team over the combined US-Europe side, will play the Hong Kong Open starting today.
The New Zealander said he enjoyed the chance to play golf in different countries around the world. "I enjoy sampling different cultures. For me, the PGA Tour [in the US] is pretty much the same old stuff every week.
"Same hotel room, same type of golf course, same speed of the greens, same bunkers, rough is the same. Monotony is not very nice in my life.
"I like a change. That's why I spend six months in Australia and six months in England. My kids enjoy that and my wife enjoys that."
Campbell, US Open champion in 2005, said players such as Arnold Palmer, Jack Nicklaus and Gary Player had taken professional golf to the world 40 years ago, plying their trade everywhere.
"Golf is heading in that direction now. It is a wonderful thing to have the top players in the world playing the game in all four corners of the world."
Campbell was looking forward to teeing off at the Hong Kong Golf Club in Fanling, where he finished in a tie for 10th three years ago. "It's a course I really enjoy playing and one that's been around a long time."
Other top players competing include defending champion Colin Montgomerie of Scotland and two-times major winner South African Retief Goosen.
- NZPA
