Golf: Horror start before Campbell settles

Michael Campbell

New Zealand golfer Michael Campbell mixed the good with the bad at the PGA Championship yesterday.

Campbell had a round of liquorice allsorts in posting a three-over 73 to sit in a share of 80th place, six strokes behind a leading pack of six.

The US Open champion registered six bogeys and three birdies after enduring a horror start.

Starting at the 10th hole, he completed his opening nine holes even with the card after two bogeys cancelled out a brace of birdies.

He stumbled on the trip home, though, with three successive bogeys from the first before nabbing one shot back with a birdie three on the seventh, but he immediately gave that back by bogeying the next.

Campbell hit 10 of 14 fairways and just eight of 18 greens in regulation, needing 29 putts in his round.

"Off the tee wasn't too good today," he said. "The weather was obviously baking those greens, making them very dry and making it a different golf course than in practice rounds."

- NZPA