Two New Zealand golfers beat their own demons to survive the second round cut at the PGA Championship in the United States today.
Both Michael Campbell and Mark Brown will contest the money rounds of the year's fourth and final major tournament on a challenging Oakland Hills CountryClub course in Michigan.
Campbell is the best placed to do well over the weekend, his second round of over-over-par 71 leaving him in a tie for 21st place on 144, five shots behind the leader, American JB Holmes.
Brown assured himself of a pay cheque by posting an impressive 69 as he became one of just six players to dip into red figures today.
That represented an eight-shot improvement on his opening round effort and left him in a share of 35th place on 146, three shots inside the cut mark.
Both New Zealanders are determined to do well for contrasting reasons.
Campbell is battling to break out of a protracted form slump which has left his victory at the 2005 US Open but a distant memory, while Brown, a two-time winner on the Asian Tour this season, is playing in his first major.
So far they have completed half the job, but Brown has already shown that he belongs in the elite company with a fine round containing four birdies, highlighted by his holing out from the greenside bunker at the seventh.
Campbell, too, held his nerve to improve on his overnight share of 43rd place and complete 36 holes without a double bogey to his name.
He did have three bogeys today but cancelled those out with birdies at the first, seventh, 13th and 14th holes.
