Woods won the 14th hole with a par when Campbell made double bogey. The next four holes were gut-check time for both players, but Campbell was the one who came out with the confidence boost into the quarterfinals.

“I think all of it, really (will help),” Campbell said. “I think to be able to come out and get that lead early and also to be able to rebound from things that happened on 11 and 12. I think I can take both things from it, and getting the ball up and down on 17 was pretty huge, too.”

While many will view Campbell’s victory over Woods as an upset, others would say that’s too hasty a judgment. He’s been playing extremely well this season with a tie for second at the Sony Open in Hawaii and the win in his first two starts.

“I really felt good coming in here,” Campbell said. “I felt like I was hitting the ball well, driving it well, hitting my irons pretty good, rolling my putts pretty good. I was confident I could go out there and make it a good match.”

Campbell, who was voted by his peers as the “most likely to win a major” in the 2003 issue of Sports Illustrated, maintained he didn’t lose any sleep when he learned he would be playing Woods in the third round.

“I was definitely excited to be playing the No. 1 guy in the world,” said Campbell, who received the last scholarship to UNLV when Woods opted to go to Stanford instead.

“You want to play the best guys. … You want to play the best so you can see how good you are and how you perform against the best.”

On Friday, Campbell got his answer.