Wednesday, April 7, 2010

Last Masters for Cambo?

Michael Campbell is now in his last year of exemptions for entry into the majors on the back of winning the 2005 US Open.  With that in mind and considering his particularly bad run of form for the last few years it is conceivable that this will be his last US Masters Tournament.

It's a real shame he hasn't been able to kick on after the US Open win which for me still rates as my favourite sporting moment.  Cambo has immense talent but it appears the mental side of the game has been tough for him.

I hope he at least makes the cut this weekend but with an unforgiving Augusta course and a game that has abandoned him I don't know if he can make it.

Incidentally there are 19 ways to qualify for the Masters:

  1. Masters Tournament Champions (Lifetime)
  2. U.S. Open Champions (Honorary, non-competing after five years)
  3. The Open Champions (Honorary, non-competing after five years)
  4. PGA Champions (Honorary, non-competing after five years)
  5. Winners of the Players Championship (Three years)
  6. Current U.S. Amateur Champion (6-A) (Honorary, non-competing after one year); Runner-up (6-B) to the current U.S. Amateur Champion
  7. Current British Amateur Champion (Honorary, non-competing after one year)
  8. Current Asian Amateur Champion
  9. Current U.S. Amateur Public Links Champion
  10. Current U.S. Mid-Amateur Champion
  11. The first 16 players, including ties, in the previous year’s Masters Tournament
  12. The first 8 players, including ties, in the previous year’s U.S. Open
  13. The first 4 players, including ties, in the previous year’s Open Championship
  14. The first 4 players, including ties, in the previous year’s PGA Championship
  15. The 30 leaders on the Final Official PGA Tour Money List for the previous calendar year
  16. Winners of PGA Tour Regular Season and Playoff events that award at least a full-point allocation for the season-ending Tour Championship, from previous Masters to current Masters
  17. Those qualifying for the previous year’s season-ending Tour Championship
  18. The 50 leaders on the Final Official World Golf Ranking for the previous calendar year
  19. The 50 leaders on the Official World Golf Ranking published during the week prior to the current Masters Tournament

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