The 20-year-old, who hopes to turn professional next year, only just missed out on first place at the Asian Amateur Championship at the Singapore Island Country Club earlier this month and he hopes to rectify that this week.
"It was a hard one to swallow, but I was injured and it went well, considering."
This time round, Campbell is better prepared and excited to be playing at what he describes as an "impressive course".
"You've got to really look at how to use the slopes to direct the ball. You can't just go flying at flags. You've really got to think your way around here, which is good. It's definitely a thinking man's course.
"I've got a bit of the local knowledge around and a few of the guys have local caddies, which is good."
Campbell has been living and training in Melbourne since February this year and he said the conditions were similar there and had prepared him well for what lay ahead at The Hills golf course.
"Everyone is pretty solid out here and it's probably good we have got an extra few days practice. I think the Aussies would be fairly used to conditions like this, like the hard greens."
A small golfing twist would see his very own coach, Marty Joyce, lead the Australian boys into battle this week, but Campbell said there was no confusing Joyce's loyalties.
"He's the Australian coach, but he's half Kiwi.
"He will still help me out - well he'd better."
Campbell's golfing tale began at age 4, when he was given a tailor-made set of golf clubs from the Masterton Golf Club, where his mother also competed.
He began to take the sport seriously at 13, when he realised he was not coming first in other codes, as he was with golf.
"I don't play sports that I'm not good at."
What now for the farm boy from Masterton?
"Hopefully, get a tour card somewhere and keep progressing and see where it takes me.
"Definitely want one of those [an Open], but I suppose it's about each day trying to get better, and if you're getting better each day you're going to keep improving."
Campbell thinks his team has the talent to win the stroke play tournament.
"It would be real good if the team could get a win here. We've got a great team here." Campbell said the team knew each other pretty well and he and his closest Kiwi competitor, Ryan Fox, have paired up yet again as room mates.
"Me and Foxy normally room together.
"He's pretty good normally - just loves his beef jerky and has just got an iPad.
"He's playing that 24/7. You can't get him off it.
"It's awesome, coming to Queenstown and playing in an event like this. Mum's come down for the trip, too."
The Four Nations Cup is an amalgamation of two tournaments, the Four Nations (between NZ, Australia, Japan and Canada) and the Southern Cross Cup (between NZ, Australia, South Africa and Argentina).
The four international teams competing are New Zealand, Australia, South Africa and Argentina.
The stroke play event means each team is made up of four male players and the best three scores from each team are added up at the end of each 18-hole day to complete the team score.
The tournament begins today and runs until Sunday.
Four Nations
New Zealand: Ryan Fox (Royal Auckland), Ben Campbell (Masterton), Mathew Perry (Hamilton), Vaughan McCall (Gore).
Australia: Maverick Antcliff, Brett Drewitt, Ryan Peake, Todd Sinnott.
Argentina: Jorge Ferdandez Valdes, Franco Romero, Thomas Baik, Martin Kim.
South Africa: Ruan De Smidt, Haydn Porteous, Jared Harvey, Brandon Stone.
