Big-hitting Brit Laura Davies will be looking to stop a run-of-outs as she headlines the field in the Canberra Ladies Classic at Royal Canberra today.
By her own admission the four-time major winner hasn't had a lot of success in the two-year history of the event, but she will be looking to change that when she tees off at 9am.
''[I] didn't do well last year and didn't do particularly well the year before but this year I've been practising for two weeks, up and down the driving at home, and I am hoping to hit the ground running this year,'' Davies said.
One of the main attractions for the former world No1 is the Royal Canberra course.
''I love [the course]. It is quite a narrow course, you have got to hit a lot of fairways, but it is generous in that there is no out-of-bounds,'' she explained. ''It is a good mixture of tight and where you can be aggressive on some holes.''
She also loves the nightlife in Kingston when play has finished.
''In the evenings you are covered for something to do, it's not boring ... so there is no downside to coming to Canberra,'' Davies said.
Davies, who will play alongside Lindsey Wright and Sarah Jane Smith today, finished 16th in last year's Canberra Ladies Classic and 19th in 2010.
Campbell, 31, has revealed how last year she lost her desire to be out on tour, despite starting 2011 with her best ALPG tour season which included a runner-up finish to world No1 Yani Tseng at the Australian Ladies Masters.
''I was really looking forward to the year,'' Campbell said. ''I had come off the best home tour season in February, but nothing happened once I got to Japan.
''I struggled. I was lonely and missing family and friends. I was asking myself if I wanted to keep doing this.''
But after speaking with her boyfriend Damon Welsford, also a pro golfer, the couple decided that he would return to Japan and work as her caddie in 2012.
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