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Campbell was an assistant professional. Late in the final round he was in good shape to win but heeled his tee shot at the 16th hole and found a deep bunker (later dubbed
Campbell's grave). The gallery tried to convince him to play backward but unfortunately he ignored their advice and took eight on the hole. Willie Park, Jr. would go on to win by a single stroke.
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in three successive years from 1880 to 1882—when he was only 13 years old. Campbell's strength was his ability in match play. In 1882, when
Campbell was 20 years old, an admirer offered to back him against the world for $ 30,000. From 1883 to 1888 he played anyone who would accept his challenge to
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was played in almost incessant rain and a cross wind. Campbell was the warm favourite amongst the local crowd and was followed by the majority of the spectators. Despite all his success his most famous golfing moment—which turned out to be a disastrous failure—would come here, at
Prestwick, where
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Campbell was one of the first foreign professional golfers to come to the United States, and his coming was due to W. B. Thomas, who was at the time of
Campbell's death in 1900 serving as president of the
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Like many golfers from his era, he started out as a caddie at the links at
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eight times in the 1880s. Campbell emigrated to
America in 1894. He finished alone in sixth place in the
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he came in sixth. Campbell resigned his post at The
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556:Note: Campbell never played in the
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568:NYF = Tournament not yet founded
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672:Connolly, J.R. (2 March 1900).
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221:– 25 November 1900 in
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521:The Open Championship
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365:Forest Hills Cemetery
275:The Open Championship
247:Newport, Rhode Island
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626:"Famous Golfer Dead"
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237:which was the first
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632:. 26 November 1900.
227:professional golfer
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454:Tournament
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327:in Boston.
282:Golf career
267:Willie Dunn
259:David Brown
215:Musselburgh
63:Musselburgh
761:Categories
580:References
253:Early life
65:, Scotland
56:1862-07-14
705:20 August
487:U.S. Open
311:. In the
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219:Scotland
133:Children
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503:NYF
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