But the tactics and strategy start even before a golfer goes on to the course - there is also what they take onto the course.Professional golfers constantly tinker with their equipment, with the driver and the putter being the most in danger of being thrown out of the bag and replaced with something else potentially more successful. It was doubtless the same at Augusta last month when the South African was pipped by Phil Mickelson after an epic duel.A few days later an eminent columnist on this newspaper made the bizarre claim that because each player merely hit his own ball and had no effect on his opponents, tactics and strategy played no part in the game Rubbish. That the struggle is an internal one makes it no less intriguing and rarely does a golfer's "inner voice" speak with as much conviction as Sonia Gandhi's.The language of golf might be emphatically English all over the world, but those inner voices usually speak with many a forked tongue. Only when he conquered his inner voice did the outrageously talented American win his first major championship.Only last weekend Padraig Harrington was describing how he was forever giving himself a good talking to in mid-round. Mickelson's used to tell him to go for every shot, every fiendishly placed flag stick, that only pansies lay up. "If you are hitting the shots, it is not that tough," Campbell said. "A lot of it is just confidence and trusting the wind."Second-round joint-leaders Leonard and JL Lewis struggled to two-over 72 and 75 respectively.* A one-over-par 72 was enough to earn Wales' Becky Morgan a share of the lead going into the final round of the Sybase Classic on the outskirts of New York.
Aiming for a first professional victory, Morgan led by four at halfway after a second round 64 but ended the third day on 10-under alongside the American Sherri Steinhauer.. It was David Gower who said, when asked if the two words about him he most disliked were "laid" and "back": "No, 'caught Dujon'." Ernie Els would have answered "runner-up". The "Big Easy" has suffered his fair share at the hands of Tiger Woods, but the mind goes back to his defeat by Tom Lehman in the 1996 Open at Royal Lytham. Gay, who missed the cut in his last three starts, also threatened the course record and led by as many as three shots on the back nine. But he had bogeys on the 14th, 16th and 18th holes and finished with a 65.Campbell began with an eagle and two birdies before alternating two more birdies with a pair of bogeys to make the turn at four-under But he recorded five birdies on the back nine. Chad Campbell matched the course record with a nine-under-par 61 to share the lead after the third round of The Colonial in Fort Worth, Texas on Saturday.
Both did it last year.Campbell is now at eight-under, level with Brian Gay and Steve Flesch, and two shots ahead of Zach Johnson. Substitutes not used: Thomson (gk), Mehmet.Celtic (4-4-2): Marshall; Agathe, Balde, Varga, McNamara; Petrov, Lennon, Pearson (Wallace, 57), Thompson; Larsson, Sutton. Substitutes not used: McGovern (gk), Lambert, Mjallby, Beattie.Referee: S Dougal.Booked: Dunfermline: Brewster, Darren Young; Celtic: Lennon.Man of the match: Larsson.Attendance: 50,846.. "It was good to put a smile on the faces of the fans and to do the Double But the club will go on without me. Celtic have great players and a great manager and they will continue to grow."Dunfermline will go forward too. Their compensation for contributing to a pulsating final is a place in the Uefa Cup, their first European football in three decades. "I am proud of my players," said Jimmy Calderwood, the Dunfermline manager.
"They gave everything but Celtic lifted the pace in the second half and we could not cope."Goals: Skerla (40) 0-1; Larsson (58) 1-1; Larsson (71) 2-1; Petrov (84) 3-1.Dunfermline Athletic (4-4-2): Stillie; Nicholson, Skerla, Labonte, Byrne (Tod, 87); Derek Young, Darren Young, Mason, (Grondin, 81), Dempsey (Bullen, 59); Crawford, Brewster. Alan Thompson's pass allowed him to elude Labonte once more and he swept a left-foot finish past Stillie without even looking to see where the goal was."Henrik is a magician," declared O'Neill. "We need a few better words in the English language than 'fantastic' and 'marvellous' to describe him What a way for him to leave the scene. We will miss him badly, not just on the pitch but in the dressing room. We will mourn him for a while, maybe a year or two, but we will try to get another hero.""I did not want to leave as a loser," reflected Larsson.