Congrats to Michael Campbell. Some people are calling this a fluke, and are calling Campbell an "unknown", but to hard core golf fans, he is a golfing talent that finally put it all together for a week.
In the early and mid-90s, he was mentioned as one of the up and coming stars - almost always in the same breath as Ernie Els and Vijay Singh. He had the lead in the 95 British Open with 18 to play - the one where John Daly beat Constantino Rocca in a playoff - but shot 76 and lost by 1. He never seemed to recover until now.
Good for him.
As for Goosen, geesh. 81? My God, that's a choke. They're comparing it to Gil Morgan's 81 at Pebble in 92 - but at least then, they had 30-40 mph winds to deal with. (Tom Kite ended up winning over Derek's favorite golfer, Monty. Nicklaus gave the title to Monty when he shot 70 and was in the clubhouse as the leaders were flailing in the wind - only Kite was steady enough to take it away from Monty.).
Congrats to Campbell and also to Jason Gore, who should have more than enough sponsor exemptions this year to ease the pain of that 84.
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