Brian Campbell, left Michael Mcdermott on the 18th Green in Augusta National on Sunday.
Masters.com
Augusta, GA – Brian Campbell has a home game next week.
He is a resident of Hilton Head Island, SC, so Harbor Town – the host country of RBC heritage – is a well -known territory.
This week at Augusta National For Campbell, anyway?
Not so much.
Campbell, who ranks 113th in the world, is playing in his first Master Through his victory in Mexico opens in February. Not that you would know. He played the first 36 holes in one to make the cut from two. On Saturday, Campbell was stumbled on with a third round 76, but then withdrew Sunday with seven birds-including three straight to 10, 11 and 12 along the 68th four-sided four.
“To show my first masters,” he said, “I’m very proud.”
Campbell did not play well, he also played quickly. That’s because he was the first player out of Sunday, at 9:40 am his name was unaccompanied on Tee sheet because technically he didn’t have a partner playing. Well, he doneBut the record books will show that he did not do it because he played not alongside another masters participant, but rather with the 50-year-old Augusta National Resident Marker Michael Mcdermott.
Mcdermott’s services were called this weekend when a strange number of players made the cut, leaving the first pairing in the third and fourth rounds that needed a player played. In the third round, Mcdermott, which is a National member of Augusta and CEO of Kathmere Capital Management in Wayne, Pa., Played with Tom Kimwho called his partner plus-3-Handicap playing a “full ballerina”.
On Sunday, it was Campbell’s turn to play with the man of the masters mystery.
Campbell described him to play with McDermott as “wonderful” but also “strange” because he is not used to seeing his partners playing their balls before they had given up, which Mcdermott made occasions to keep the game moving and staying out of Campbell’s path.
“A kind of travel,” Campbell said.
He added that he and McDermott were “excited to get fresh greens in front of everyone”.
Those glass surfaces were good for him. Campbell had its best placement of the week, needed only 1.44 strokes. He also housed three bird shocks of 11 meters or longer.
When asked if playing with McDermott helped Campbell because he could only focus on his game, Campbell said: “He really allowed me to do an area inside and do what I want to do.” He added that McDermott’s heartfelt and easy way also helped him on that front.
Campbell said he has learned volumes about Augusta National this week – about the forms of shot and the types that the course requires, the importance of resting your body and mind between rounds and for the complications of frozen greens.
“I hit a lot of strokes I have never seen what they have done before,” he said.
He said he wanted to adopt the history of the country and to attract the steps of the greats who have rejected these roads.
“I grew up looking at the tiger chip from a few points, so I would go there and look at them shots,” Campbell said.
