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Sergio Garcia took three shots from the green, then fired one at a cameraman.
In a wild sequence on Tuesday during the Open Championship final later this month, Garcia was poised to come home in a par 5 par 16 at West Lancashire Golf Club and had a 5-footer for birdie – only to backtrack on it, hit and miss and go off. . It was the first episode I mentioned before Irish Independent.
Garcia’s words were only eight.
“D***! As if it wasn’t hard enough,” he said, according to L Irish Independent.
After two holes, Garcia’s bid to play in the 26th consecutive Open Championship fell through. He finished sixth under the 36 holes, three shots short of the qualifying result.
According to the Irish IndependentGarcia was eight-under through 24 holes, then shot off the 25th (par-4 7th in West Lancashire) after a chip flew the green, and the 28th second (par-4 10th) after three putts. From there, Garcia played even golf, with a birdie on the 11th hole and a bogey on the 13th.
“I was rolling really well,” García said, “I had a really bad break at 7 in the afternoon and it put my momentum down a bit.” Irish Independent. “Then it was hard to get back up again, but I gave it my all. I was thinking maybe Eight might make a playoff, but I was trying to get to Number 10.
“If you come here, you put yourself in that position. I felt like I was close, in my fist, but that’s what it is. I was trying and unfortunately it wasn’t good enough.”
Notably, the outburst isn’t Garcia’s first, his last coming before Tuesday at one of his last PGA Tour events before joining LIV Golf. At a Wells Fargo tournament this past May, the rules official told Garcia that it took too long to find the missing ball — which prompted this response from the Spaniard:
“So, you’re saying it took too long?” Then he walked away and offered these words: “I can’t wait to leave this tour.”
“I can’t wait to get out of here, buddy,” García continued. “Just a few weeks and I won’t have to deal with you anymore.”
The PGA Tour states that the official ruled incorrectly, but the call hung up. And about a month later, Garcia was on the court for LIV’s first tournament.
In Tuesday’s qualifying final, Garcia shot rounds of 67 and 71. In all, 19 players qualified for The Open Championship, scheduled for July 20-23 at Royal Liverpool. (Matt Wallace, Matthew Jordan, Kyle Parker, Alex Fitzpatrick and Tiger Christensen in West Lancashire; Michael Stewart, Marco Bing, Conor McKinney and Graeme Robertson in Dundonald Links; Martin Roeher, Thomas Dietry, Char Schwartzl, Branden Grace and Antoine Rosner in Royal Cinque Ports; Laurie Kanter, Brandon Robinson-Thompson, Matthew Southgate, Jazz Janiwattanund and Oliver Farr at Royal Porthcawl.)
“It was just an excruciating process,” Grace said Thursday, ahead of this week’s LIV event in England. “For me personally, I missed last year’s tournament in St Andrews, and that was very painful. I’ve played a lot of them in a row now, and this was one you really didn’t want to miss.
“I think any time there’s a chance of being able to qualify for the major, we’ll. It doesn’t matter — like I said, Sergio, look at him, he’s played in a lot. I think one of his major runs is coming to an end now because he didn’t qualify, but we’re all still We want to compete against the best, we all want to play in the best events.
“Yeah, I would have gone either way. It’s good, like you said, that the fire is still there, that you really wanted to play well, you really wanted to make it, and just go and try and try again. I think I can still win.” with one, so I will do everything to try to get to this and the next one.”