Sergio Garcia has at all times had a love-hate relationship with the Masters and Augusta Nationwide.
Place Sunday’s ultimate spherical within the “hate” class.
The 46-year-old Garcia, the 2017 winner of the inexperienced jacket, had a meltdown of epic proportions early in his ultimate spherical Sunday. He tore up the turf on the tee field on No. 2 and smashed his driver on a water cooler.
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The tantrum was so unhealthy that he was issued a code-of-conduct warning by a match official two holes later.
“Clearly, not tremendous pleased with it, however generally it occurs,’’ Garcia mentioned after capturing 75 to complete the week 8-over par and in third-to-last place.
Jon Rahm, who was paired with Garcia, a fellow member of LIV Golf, mentioned, “Clearly, he hasn’t been swinging it the way in which he would love. It wasn’t the best day for him so … not a lot I can say.’’
Garcia was approached by a match official on the fourth gap for a dialog about his meltdown, one which got here with a code-of-conduct warning. A second infraction would have resulted in a two-shot penalty and a 3rd would result in disqualification.
When requested after his spherical what was mentioned to him on the fourth gap, Garcia mentioned, “I’m not going to inform you.”
Requested what his difficulty was, he mentioned, “Dangerous golf. Dangerous pictures.”
Requested if he was given a warning, as was reported by the AP, Garcia mentioned. “Subsequent query, please.”
And the interview, in addition to Garcia’s twenty seventh Masters, was over.
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His newest incident has earnt him widespread criticism.
“Garcia has been an childish basket case all through his grownup life,” Golfweek columnist Eamonn Lynch wrote.
“Maybe a few of that owes to the corrosive frustrations of 73 unsuccessful makes an attempt to win a serious championship, one thing he lastly achieved on the Masters in 2017, and the realisation that he hasn’t delivered to the extent his expertise promised when he emerged as a young person.
“However largely it’s as a result of he’s a jerk.”
In the meantime, Telegraph Golf Correspondent James Corrigan mentioned it was an “embarrassing” incident and that Garcia must “develop up”.
“At 46 years of age, the petulance and anger in Sergio Garcia depressingly reveals no signal of abating,” he wrote.
“Goodness is aware of what was going via Garcia’s head. He was close to the underside of the leaderboard and had little probability of attaining even a backdoor top-20. How embarrassing for a veteran, together with his spouse and two younger youngsters trying on.”
This was not an remoted incident for Garcia.
Finally 12 months’s British Open, he was compelled to play most of his ultimate spherical with out his driver after he slammed the membership into the bottom and broke it on the second gap.
In 2019, he was disqualified from a match in Saudi Arabia after he broken a number of greens in frustration.
In 2022, he bought right into a confrontation with an official on the Wells Fargo Championship after a dispute over a misplaced ball, telling him, “A few extra weeks, I don’t should take care of you any extra,” referring to his impending transfer from the PGA Tour to LIV Golf.
In 2012, Garcia, after capturing a third-round 75 that knocked him from competition, went on a diatribe to Spanish reporters about how he’ll by no means win a Masters.
“I’m not ok,” he informed reporters. “I don’t have the factor I must have. In 13 years, I’ve come to the conclusion that I must play for second or third place.”
5 years later, he received the Masters in a playoff over Justin Rose and later named his daughter Azalea — after the thirteenth gap at Augusta.
Garcia clearly wasn’t in way of thinking coming into the match, based mostly on his struggles in LIV and his pre-tournament feedback.
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Earlier this week, he was requested by a reporter, if there are any holes or pictures the place he wants added focus, Garcia proceeded to say, “Yeah, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17 and 18.”
“This course checks you each single gap,” he went on.
He additionally mentioned he was “not tremendous joyful” together with his sport, including, “In the mean time, I’m not feeling wonderful.”
Garcia, who opened the week with rounds of 72, 75 and 74, had bogeyed the primary gap Sunday after which drove his tee shot on the second gap right into a fairway bunker.
That triggered his mood tantrum as he made two swipes on the floor together with his driver, taking a big divot out of the bottom. Then he smashed his driver in opposition to the underside of a water cooler, which snapped the shaft a number of inches above the membership head.
Garcia has only one prime 10 in 5 LIV Golf begins this season, and in his seven Masters appearances since his win, he’s missed the minimize six instances.