Golf: Campbell cleared to play after scare

Injured New Zealand golfer Michael Campbell has been given the all-clear to contest next week's lucrative Accenture matchplay championship in Arizona.

Campbell was in doubt for the first of this year's world golf championship events after injuring his neck on Friday while working out in the gym of a Kuala Lumpur hotel. He had just completed the second round of the Malaysian Open.

Campbell visited his Sydney-based physio yesterday and was told the injury was muscular and not serious. The former US Open champion suffered the injury when he lost his balance while undertaking a series of head stands.