Campbell rollercoaster back on track

LESS than two months ago Michael Campbell stood 417th in the world and it looked as if we might be witnessing the decline and fall of a once great player.

Good enough to have been ranked 12th in May 2001, Campbell had just missed 15 of his last 18 halfway cuts and the game that had pushed Tiger Woods into second place at the 2005 US Open appeared a distant memory.

Major winners do not always bounce back after going into a slump – Ian Baker-Finch eventually gave up trying and David Duval is still a shadow of his former self – but the 39-year-old New Zealander did not panic.