Campbell trails at Sun City

American Chad Campbell remained rooted to the bottom of the leaderboard in the early stages of the second round of the Nedbank Golf Challenge.

Campbell, who crashed to a first round 80 in Sun City, started brightly with a birdie at the first but then ran up a double-bogey seven on the second hole.

At nine over par Campbell was six shots behind playing partner and defending champion Sergio Garcia, who had opened with four pars.

Lee Westwood, Stuart Appleby and local favourites Retief Goosen and Ernie Els shared the overnight lead on two under after rounds of 70 yesterday.

The quartet all bemoaned the tough set-up of the Gary Player Country Club course and did not expect things to get any easier going into the weekend.

Changes, particularly on the 14th, 17th and 18th, have made scoring far more difficult for the elite 12-man field.

Behind the leading quartet, only two other players, Nick Price of Zimbabwe - playing in his 14th tournament here – and American Chris DiMarco managed to shoot scores under par.