{"id":790,"date":"2005-06-22T07:42:59","date_gmt":"2005-06-22T12:42:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesandtrap.com\/uncategorized\/campbell_not_being_given_his_due\/"},"modified":"2005-06-22T07:42:59","modified_gmt":"2005-06-22T12:42:59","slug":"campbell_not_being_given_his_due","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesandtrap.com\/b\/swing_thoughts\/campbell_not_being_given_his_due","title":{"rendered":"Campbell Not Being Given his Due"},"content":{"rendered":"

We received an email from The Sand Trap reader Bruce Hardie on Tuesday, and we’d like to share it.<\/p>\n

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I’m a fan of The Sand Trap and you and the rest of your writers should be congratulated.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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I’m surprised, and maybe even a little hurt, by some of the reactions to Michael Campbell’s win. Some of the press seem to think that he was some second rate scrub who got lucky.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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Ned Barnett says<\/a> “Campbell’s win was great for his career, his bank account and his family, but it wasn’t great for golf… The leaderboard was full of little-known international players who are little-known for a reason.”<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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I think<\/em> he’s implying that the internationals aren’t known because they aren’t good enough, or aren’t marketable enough.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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Is this opinion widespread in the US media? I’ts hard to tell from Australia. I would remind Mr. Barnett that golf is played in pretty much every country in the world, not just the U.S. Even in Antarctica you will find some guy has set up a hole somewhere and will be trying send a ball into it with as few shots as he can. Campbell started playing golf on a 9-hole paddock where the greens are fenced off from the sheep. This is the story of the country kid with a cut-down 5 iron eventually winning the US Open – How is that not great for golf?<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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Perhaps I’m a little touchy because he’s a local but I feel a real sense of snobbery developed around the PGA Tour. The Ernie Els incident being another example. Who holds the Ryder cup though \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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Is this really how this week is being reported? Or have I missed it?<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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Keep up the great work,
\nBruce<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

I have a few things to say in response. First, Bruce, it’s not just the U.S. media that’s putting down Campbell. The stories seem to be (in this order):<\/p>\n

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  1. Tiger’s failure to win.<\/li>\n
  2. Goosen’s huge collapse.<\/li>\n
  3. Campbell? Oh yeah, he won, but only because Tiger didn’t and Goosen collapsed.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    The worldwide media (save for New Zealand and Australia, a country that loves claiming Kiwis as their own when it suits them) has also missed the boat on other stories: where was Ernie Els? He’s won a few times internationally against substantially weaker fields to maintain his world ranking, but his play in the U.S. has been abysmal. Where was Phil Mickelson? His Masters defense was short-lived and he finished two shots outside of his own outrageous “the winning score will be +10” prediction.<\/p>\n

    It’s not just that the media is ignoring Michael Campbell – it’s that they’re ignoring everything that’s not Tiger or heartbreak. Jason Gore will get more press than Michael Campbell. And yet Michael Campbell will still get more ink than Annika Sorenstam. Fair? No. The way things go? You bet.<\/p>\n

    Michael Campbell hasn’t been heard from in ten years. He’s been a success story waiting to happen since before then, as you point out, and nobody’s picked up on it. People love underdogs, but the media decided that the underdog at the 105th U.S. Open was Jason Gore. Campbell shot 69, Gore 85. Fair? No. The way things go? You bet.<\/p>\n

    I’ve got no answers for you. I’ve said before and I’ll say it again that I’m a fan of good golf. Good – great – golf was played on Sunday at the U.S. Open. It was played by Tiger Woods for 14 holes. It was played by Michael Campbell for 18 holes.<\/p>\n

    True golf fans appreciate Campbell’s play on Sunday, and true golf fans know who won<\/em> the U.S. Open on Sunday, not just who lost<\/em> it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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