Sergio García Fernández (; born 9 January 1980) is a Spanish
professional golfer
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. He turned professional in 1999 and played on the
European Tour
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and
PGA Tour
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prior to joining
LIV Golf
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in 2022. García has won 36 international tournaments as a professional, most notably the
2008 Players Championship and the
2017 Masters Tournament. García was also the Chairman of Spanish football team
CF Borriol.
García has spent much of his career in the top 10 of the
Official World Golf Ranking
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, including over 300 weeks in the top 10 between 2000 and 2009, and
over 450 weeks in the top 10 in total. He reached his highest career ranking, second, after winning the
HSBC Champions tournament in November 2008. García has achieved career earnings of more than US$43 million. As a player, he is noted for strong iron play and accuracy. In the
Ryder Cup
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, he competed in ten of the eleven matches playing during his professional career cumulatively earning a record 28.5 points during those matches.
Early years and amateur career
García began playing golf at the age of three and was taught by his father, Victor, who is a club professional. García won his club championship at age 12. Four years later, he set a record as the youngest player to make the cut at a European Tour event, the
1995
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Turespaña Open Mediterrania. This record was broken by amateur Jason Hak in November 2008 at the
UBS Hong Kong Open, beating García's record by 107 days. In 1995, García became the youngest player to win the
European Amateur. He followed that with a win in the
Boys Amateur Championship in 1997. He won a professional tournament, the 1997 Catalan Open, as an amateur.
Garcia was part of the Spanish teams winning the
European Boys' Team Championship in 1996 and 1997. In 1998, he won
The Amateur Championship
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at
Muirfield and reached the semi-finals of the
U.S. Amateur
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. He also finished second in the 1998
Argentine Open, being the low amateur, and winning the Pereira Iraola Cup.
Professional career
García turned professional in 1999 after shooting the lowest amateur score in the
1999 Masters Tournament. His first title on the
European Tour
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came in his sixth start as a professional, in July 1999 at the
Irish Open. He first achieved worldwide prominence with a duel against
Tiger Woods
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in the 1999
PGA Championship
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, where he eventually finished second, losing by one stroke. Late in the final round, García with his ball up against a tree trunk in the right rough on the 16th hole, and the green hidden from view, he swung hard with his eyes shut and hit a low curving fade that ran up onto the green. As the shot traveled, he sprinted madly into the fairway and then scissor-kick jumped to see the result. Shortly afterwards he became the youngest player ever to compete in the
Ryder Cup
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. In 2002, during a practice round, García made an
albatross
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(double eagle) on the par-5 second hole at the Masters, one of the few players to have ever done so. On the hole at the
Augusta National Golf Club
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Founded by Bobby Jones and Clifford Rob ...
, he holed a 2-iron following a drive.
When García first turned professional, he had an unorthodox swing with a circular loop and long large lag, and this method drew comparisons to
Ben Hogan
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, one of the best players of all time. But during the 2003 season, he worked towards making his swing more conventional, but has largely kept his original method. In his early years, he repeatedly gripped, released, and regripped his hands on the club handle before finally taking a shot. This "waggle" habit created a stir, especially at the 2002
U.S. Open when some spectators shouted out, "Hit the ball, Sergio!", and some people audibly counted the number of regrips into the twenties. Since then he has eliminated the habit. Responding to criticism of his swing, he said, "My swing works for me, so why should I change it? I prefer to have a natural swing and play well rather than a perfect swing and not be able to play good."
PGA Tour titles
At the age of 21, García won his first PGA Tour event at the
2001
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MasterCard Colonial in
Fort Worth, Texas
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, and then won again at the
Buick Classic in New York the same year. He was the youngest Tour winner since Tiger Woods in 1996 at age 20. In
2002
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, García won the
Mercedes Championships in early January, and in
2004
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Events January
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, he won the
EDS Byron Nelson Championship and the Buick Classic for the second time. His sixth PGA Tour victory came at the 2005
Booz Allen Classic. As of October 2020, he has eleven PGA Tour victories, including the 2017
Masters Tournament
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. He also plays a limited schedule on the European Tour, where he has 16 tour level victories to his name.
Ryder Cup star
García has been a member of every European
Ryder Cup
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team since
1999
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, with the exception of 2010 and 2023, and has a career record at the Ryder Cup of 25–13–7 (). He has been in six winning sides and his singles win in
2018
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made him the all-time Ryder Cup points leader, with 25 points in 9 appearances, overtaking
Nick Faldo
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's 25 points in 11 appearances.
By winning three of his four matches at
Whistling Straits in
2021
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, he extended this record to 28 points, and also surpassed Faldo as the player with the most individual match victories, with 25.
In the
2006 Ryder Cup, at the
K Club in Republic of Ireland, García won both his fourball and foursome matches (with
José María Olazábal
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and
Luke Donald
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, respectively) on day one, beating
David Toms
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and
Brett Wetterich in the fourballs and
Tiger Woods
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and
Jim Furyk in the foursomes. On day two, he paired up with Olazábal again, who won both their matches against
Phil Mickelson
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and
Chris DiMarco in both the foursomes and fourballs. Going into the final day in the singles, García was heavily tipped to be the second person to win all their matches in one Ryder Cup; however,
Stewart Cink beat him 4 and 3. Europe won the cup again, with 18 points to the United States' 9 points. At the
2020 Ryder Cup, Garcia won the inaugural Nicklaus-Jacklin Award for the European team. It is an award given to the player whose teamwork, sportsmanship, performance and decisions epitomized the spirit of the Ryder Cup.
2007: Near-miss at the Open Championship
In March 2007, García received criticism for a spitting incident at the
WGC-CA Championship. During his third round García spat into the bottom of the cup on the 13th green after three-putting for bogey. After missing the cut in the first two major championships of 2007, García came close to winning
The Open Championship
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– his favourite of the four majors – at
Carnoustie Golf Links in Scotland. He held the lead after each one of the first three rounds and carried a three-shot lead over
Steve Stricker
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and a six-shot lead over the rest of the field into the start of the fourth day.
At an early stage of the last round, García had extended his lead to four shots, but bogeys at the 5th, 7th, and 8th holes brought him back to the field. On the final challenging hole, he needed a par to win, but failed to get up and down from the greenside bunker. The last putt on the 18th hole on Sunday, from about , would have given him his first professional major. He missed it by a fraction and faced a four-hole playoff with
Pádraig Harrington
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that he eventually lost by one stroke.
In his post-round news conference, García seemed to suggest that bad breaks had cost him the Open championship. During the playoff, on the long par-3 16th hole, his tee shot hit the flagstick but then bounced from the pin, off the green, and García could not convert for birdie. "It's not the first time, unfortunately", he stated. "I don't know... I'm playing against a lot of guys out there, more than the field." In the 2007
PGA Championship
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, he was disqualified after signing an incorrect scorecard after the third round.
2008: Victory at the Players Championship and near-miss at the PGA Championship
On 11 May 2008, García won
The Players Championship
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on the PGA Tour in a sudden-death playoff against
Paul Goydos. The playoff began at the par-3 17th, where Goydos hit a pitching wedge that ballooned and fell inches short of the island green and into the water, while García played a sand wedge to within four feet (1.3 m) of the hole. Goydos made double bogey while García made par for the win.
At the
2008 PGA Championship, played over the South Course of
Oakland Hills Country Club near Detroit, García narrowly missed out on winning his first professional major championship yet again. Like at the 2007 Open Championship,
Pádraig Harrington
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was able to erase a García lead on the back nine to take the title. García finished two strokes back for his second runner-up finish at the
PGA Championship
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. His most serious mistake during the final round was misjudging his second shot on the 16th, playing into a strong wind, which found the water in front of the par-4 hole's green, costing him sole ownership of the lead. Regarding another near-miss in a major championship, García stated, "I felt like I responded well, and he was obviously very good on the back nine, and things just happened his way."
On 26 October 2008, he won his first European Tour title in over three years, at the first playing of the
Castelló Masters Costa Azahar at his home course, the
Club de Campo del Mediterráneo in Castellón, Spain. With this win, he rose to a career high of third in the
Official World Golf Rankings. He dedicated the victory to compatriot
Seve Ballesteros, who was recovering from multiple operations from the
brain tumor
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that would ultimately claim Ballesteros' life. He won the 2008
HSBC Champions, the opening event on the 2009 European Tour season on 9 November 2008 in a playoff over
Oliver Wilson. This win notched him up to a career high second in the
Official World Golf Rankings, replacing
Phil Mickelson
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in that spot, who had coincidentally won the
HSBC Champions in 2007. García earned more money than any other golfer in 2008, earning $6,979,959 in 26 events.
2009–2010: Slump in form, competitive break
After his success in 2008, García had a very disappointing season in 2009, rarely contending and finished ranked 74th on the PGA Tour money list. He had more success on the
European Tour
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where he finished tenth in the inaugural
Race to Dubai. His slump continued into 2010, and after missing the cut at the US
PGA Championship
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, García announced he was taking a break from golf and would miss the
2010 Ryder Cup
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. He also dropped out of the top 50 of the
Official World Golf Rankings. Struggles with the putter were the primary cause of his slump, since his ballstriking remained among the best in the world. On 29 August 2010, European captain
Colin Montgomerie
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announced that García would be his fourth vice captain for the
2010 Ryder Cup
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at Celtic Manor.
2011–2012: Return to form
García returned to competitive play in late 2010 with a new putting grip and this produced better results for him on the greens during tournaments in 2011. After 36 holes, he was near the lead in both the 2011 Transitions Championship and the 2011 Byron Nelson Championship, but both times faded on the weekend to fall out of contention.
García had to withdraw from qualifying for the 2011 Open Championship because of an infected finger. He had originally planned against qualifying for the
2011 U.S. Open, where he was outside the top-50 in the OWGR and was not guaranteed automatic entry. He eventually earned a spot in the U.S. Open after being one of the top four at a qualifying tournament near
Memphis. García played well in all four rounds of the U.S. Open, ending in a tie for seventh place at five-under par 279.
[ García finished tied for ninth place in The 2011 Open Championship at Royal St George's. This was his 17th career top-10 finish in a major.
In late June 2011, García almost broke his winless streak dating back to 2008, when he lost at the fifth sudden-death playoff hole to fellow Spaniard Pablo Larrazábal at the BMW International Open. García led the tournament after the 11th hole of the final round with a stunning stretch of holes, which saw him produce three birdies and two eagles in six holes, from holes six to eleven. However his charge to the finish was derailed by four bogeys in five holes, leaving him needing a birdie at the last to make the playoff. In the playoff, both players made consecutive birdies at the first two extra holes (both par 5s) before parring holes three and four (both par 3s). At the fifth extra hole, García had a eagle putt for the victory, but ran the effort four feet (1.3 m) past the hole. The resulting putt lipped out, allowing Larrazábal to hole a two-foot birdie putt for the victory.
García's runner-up finish at the BMW International Open ensured qualification for the 2011 Open Championship at Royal St George's, through the current form money list exemption. García went on to finish tied for 9th place at the Open Championship, his best finish for four years. He continued the run at the 2011 ]PGA Championship
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where he finished in a tie for 12th place, extending his streak to 50 consecutive majors played, the longest streak among active players. In October 2011, García ended a three-year title drought with back-to-back wins in his home country at the Castelló Masters and the Andalucía Masters. García won the Castelló Masters in dominant fashion, with a final score of 27-under-par, 11 strokes ahead of the field. It was the joint third highest victory margin on the European Tour
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, beaten only by Tiger Woods
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' 15 stroke victory at the 2000 U.S. Open and Ernie Els' 13 stroke win at the 2005 BMW Asian Open. After the win, García dedicated it to the late Seve Ballesteros, stating "That was for Seve."
The following week, García won the Andalucía Masters, played at the Club de Golf Valderrama, arguably regarded as one of the toughest golf courses on the European Tour. He edged out fellow countryman Miguel Ángel Jiménez by one shot after a tense final round. Following his back-to-back wins, García moved back into the top 20 of the Official World Golf Ranking
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. In August 2012, García ended a four-year title drought on the PGA Tour by winning the Wyndham Championship. In doing so, García also secured his place on the 2012 Ryder Cup
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team. In December 2012, García fired a final round 61 to win the Iskandar Johor Open on the Asian Tour
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.
2013: Controversy
While tied for the lead at the 2013 Players Championship, García hit three balls into the water on the 17th and 18th holes, finishing quadruple-bogey, double-bogey. He finished tied for eighth place. After the tournament ended, García and Tiger Woods (who won the tournament) had a public feud over an incident that occurred during the third round. Two weeks later, at a European Tour players dinner, García was asked about meeting with Woods at the U.S. Open, to which he responded, "We'll have him 'round every night. We will serve fried chicken." The remark was seen as racist
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. García issued a statement later that night apologizing and then issued another apology the next day, saying that his comments were "totally stupid and out of place."
2014–2016
In January 2014, García won the Commercial Bank Qatar Masters after defeating Mikko Ilonen
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Career
Ilonen was born in Lahti, Finland. ...
in a playoff. The win put him back in the world top 10. In July 2014, García finished joint runner-up at the 2014 Open Championship, two strokes behind Rory McIlroy
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. This was the second time García had finished as a runner-up at The Open Championship and fourth time in a major championship, having still yet to break through. García began the final round seven strokes behind McIlroy, but got to within two after an eagle on the 10th hole. However his challenge was ended when he left his second shot in the bunker at the par three 15th which he would bogey to fall three behind with three to play. This finish moved García back inside the world's top five in the world rankings.
The biggest result of García's 2015 season was at the 2015 Players Championship; where he tied Rickie Fowler
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and Kevin Kisner at 12 under par after 72 holes. He was then eliminated after the three-hole playoff, after finishing two strokes behind Fowler and Kisner. Fowler would go on to win in sudden-death. On the Asian Tour
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, he won the Ho Tram Open in Phước Thuận, Vietnam
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, beating Lin Wen-tang, Himmat Rai and Thaworn Wiratchant in a four-way playoff.
As the year before at The Players Championship, García came very close to another win on the PGA Tour at The Honda Classic. In a final round showdown with Adam Scott, where the pair started the final round level, the Aussie prevailed by one shot. In May, García won his second AT&T Byron Nelson championship in a playoff over Brooks Koepka. The win was his first on the PGA Tour since 2012 and his ninth career victory, tying Seve Ballesteros for most by a Spanish-born player.
2017: Major championship win
In February 2017, García completed a wire-to-wire victory at the Omega Dubai Desert Classic
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for his first European Tour title in over three years. The victory was García's 12th of his European Tour career, as he finished three strokes ahead of Henrik Stenson. The victory moved García back inside the top-10 and after the win García said "Hopefully it will be the beginning of a great year."
2017 Masters win
On 9 April 2017, in his 74th major championship, García broke through and won the Masters Tournament
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with victory on the first sudden-death playoff hole against Justin Rose. García became the third Spanish player to win the Masters, after Seve Ballesteros and José María Olazábal
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. The victory also came on what would have been Ballesteros' 60th birthday.
García shot rounds of 71-69-70 over the first three rounds to enter the final round at six-under par and in the co-lead with Rose, who played together in the final group. This represented García's second career 54-hole lead/co-lead at a major championship, after the 2007 Open Championship. García began the final round strongly, with two birdies on his opening three holes and he forged a three shot lead early on. Rose came back though and following bogeys on the 10th and 11th for García, Rose opened up a two shot lead.
The 13th hole was then pivotal, as García scrambled a par and Rose missed a short birdie putt to keep the gap at two shots. García would then birdie the next hole and eagle the par five 15th to tie Rose with three holes remaining. They then both hit their tee shots at the 16th close, but only Rose converted, to again lead by one. Rose however would make a mistake at the 17th, leading to a dropped shot and meaning both players were tied going up the 72nd hole. Both players hit their approach shots close on the 18th green, but Rose burnt the lip with his birdie putt. García had a five-foot putt to win the tournament in regulation play but missed it right resulting in a playoff as both players finished level on 9-under-par after 72 holes.
Playing the 18th hole again, Rose hit his tee shot into the pine straw, meaning his second shot was blocked off by trees, so could only advance his ball 50 yards or so. He played his third to a similar area of the green he had during regulation play. García fired his approach to within twelve feet. Rose's putt for par then missed on the left side of the hole, leaving García with two putts for the win. He only needed one, as he holed his birdie putt for his only major championship.
Rest of 2017
On 9 October 2017, it was announced that García had parted ways with TaylorMade after 15 years with the equipment brand.
Two weeks later, he won the Andalucía Valderrama Masters. Along with the Omega Dubai Desert Classic
The Dubai Desert Classic is a European Tour golf tournament held on Majlis course at Emirates Golf Club in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. In 1999 and 2000 it was held at Dubai Creek Golf & Yacht Club, all other editions have been held at Emirates Go ...
and the Masters
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, it was the first time he had recorded three wins in a single European Tour season. A few days after his win, he spoke about the rising tensions in Spain after the Catalan independence debate, calling on the country to 'be more together'.
Ahead of the season-ending DP World Tour Championship, Dubai in November, García dropped a huge hint that he was on the verge of signing an equipment deal with Callaway Golf Company after playing a full set of the brand's clubs in Dubai.
Following his three-win season, García was named European Tour Golfer of the Year in December.
2018
On 21 January 2018, García played a bogey-free 27 holes to win the Asian Tour
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's SMBC Singapore Open by five strokes over Satoshi Kodaira and Shaun Norris. García shot four-under on the back nine to close out a third-round 66, then posted a closing three-under 68 in his final round.
2018 Masters
On 5 April 2018, in the first round of the 2018 Masters Tournament, García tied the record for most strokes on a hole in Masters history, shooting a 13 on the 15th hole. García ultimately missed the cut at the 2018 Masters Tournament and failed to defend his title after shooting 81–78.
Rest of 2018
García was a member of the 2018 Ryder Cup winning European team at Le Golf National
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Facilitie ...
outside of Paris, France on 28–30 September 2018. He went 3–1–0 and won his singles match against Rickie Fowler
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(2 and 1). European captain Thomas Bjørn
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made García a captain's pick notwithstanding García's inconsistent play for much of 2018, but was chosen for his passion and record in the Ryder Cup.
On 22 October 2018, García successfully defended his Andalucía Valderrama Masters hosted by the Sergio García Foundation title after wrapping up a comfortable four-shot victory at Real Club Valderrama in Spain.
2019
In February 2019, García was disqualified from the Saudi International tournament on the European Tour
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for damaging five greens deliberately in anger during his third round.
In March 2019, García was involved in another controversy at the WGC-Dell Technologies Match Play. García and Matt Kuchar
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were locked in a quarterfinal duel when things went awry at the par-3 seventh hole. Trailing Kuchar by one, García missed a seven-footer for par to win the hole, his ball coming to rest an inch or two away from the cup. García went after his putt and gave it a quick-rake, and the ball lipped out. Due to the Spaniard's swiftness, Kuchar did not have a chance to concede the putt. As a result, García lost the hole. Kuchar told the official he wanted to give García the putt, but that cannot be done retroactively. García eventually lost 2 up to Kuchar, who went on to play in the finals of the event.
In April 2019, García missed the cut at the Masters after shooting 73–75, which was won by Tiger Woods
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, and the missed cut was his 6th straight in a major championship, the longest such streak in his career.
In July 2019, García was again mired in controversy after throwing his driver at his caddie at the final round of the 2019 Open Championship
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after a poor drive at the fifth hole at Royal Portrush. Later that month, footage emerged of García gouging the teebox after a poor drive on the 16th hole, while competing at the WGC-FedEx St. Jude Invitational event in Memphis.
In September 2019, García won the KLM Open in Amsterdam
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with a one-shot win over teenage Danish golfer Nicolai Højgaard. This was his sixteenth European Tour win.
2020
In January 2020, speaking ahead of the Abu Dhabi HSBC Championship, García revealed that he had ended his association with Callaway after just two years together.
In October 2020, García won the Sanderson Farms Championship in Mississippi. He has now won PGA Tour events in three separate decades.
Tennis debut
Also in October 2020, it was announced that García would partner Amer Delić
Amer Delić (; born June 30, 1982) is a Bosnian American former professional tennis player. He is a former captain and member of the Bosnia and Herzegovina Davis Cup team.
Delić was born in Tuzla, then in Socialist Federal Republic of Yugosla ...
in a semi-professional doubles tournament to be held in Austin, Texas
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. The pair lost their opening match at the Men's UTR Pro Tennis event.
2022
In May, while competing at the Wells Fargo Championship on the PGA Tour, García had a verbal altercation with a rules official while attempting to find his ball. García became heated after being told it took too long to find his ball, leading to him shouting "A couple more weeks, and I won't have to deal with you anymore". This led to speculation that Garcia would join the Saudi Arabia-led LIV Golf Invitational Series
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. García resigned from the PGA Tour and was then suspended from its future tournaments after he began to play in the first LIV Golf tournament.
2023
Having joined LIV, García was subject to fines and suspension from the European Tour for playing without a conflicting event release. After those sanctions were upheld by an independent arbitrator, in May 2023, the European Tour announced that he had resigned his membership of the tour.
Personal life
In July 2017, García married Golf Channel
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reporter Angela Akins, the daughter of Marty Akins. His sister Mar is married to the footballer Pablo Hernández. Until June 2018, he was also the president and chairman of his hometown football club CF Borriol, for whom he occasionally played in the Tercera División
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. He maintains residences in Austin, Texas
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, Orlando, Florida
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, Borriol, and Crans-Montana
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.
On 14 March 2018, García became a father. He named his daughter Azalea, after the famed flowers of Augusta National Golf Club
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Founded by Bobby Jones and Clifford Rob ...
and the nickname for the par-5 13th hole where García made par to move ahead and help claim his only major championship. They had son Enzo in April 2020.
García is also an avid Real Madrid
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supporter and was invited to take the honorary kickoff for El Clásico (between Real and archrival FC Barcelona
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) at the Estadio Santiago Bernabéu es:Estadio is the spanish language word for Stadium
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wearing his green jacket after his Masters victory.
Amateur wins
*1995 European Amateur
*1997 Boys Amateur Championship, French Open Amateur Championship, Sherry Cup (Sotogrande)
*1998 Spanish International Amateur Championship, The Amateur Championship
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Professional wins (38)
PGA Tour wins (11)
PGA Tour playoff record (6–6)
European Tour wins (16)
''*Note: The 2018 Andalucía Valderrama Masters was shortened to 54 holes due to weather.''
1Co-sanctioned by the Asian Tour
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, Sunshine Tour
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and PGA Tour of Australasia
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, but unofficial event on those tours.
European Tour playoff record (4–4)
Japan Golf Tour wins (1)
1Co-sanctioned by the Asian Tour
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Japan Golf Tour playoff record (0–1)
Asian Tour wins (5)
''*Note: The 2012 Iskandar Johor Open was shortened to 54 holes due to weather.''
1Co-sanctioned by the Korean Tour
2Co-sanctioned by the Japan Golf Tour
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Asian Tour playoff record (1–0)
LIV Golf League wins (2)
LIV Golf League playoff record (1–3)
Other wins (5)
Other playoff record (2–0)
Major championships
Wins (1)
1Defeated Rose in a sudden-death playoff: García (3), Rose (5).
Results timeline
''Results not in chronological order in 2020.''
LA = low amateur
CUT = missed the half way cut
"T" = tied
DQ = disqualified
NT = no tournament due to COVID-19 pandemic
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Summary
*Most consecutive cuts made – 10 (2014 U.S. Open – 2016 Open)
*Longest streak of top-10s – 4 (2002 Masters – 2002 PGA)
The Players Championship
Wins (1)
Results timeline
CUT = missed the halfway cut
"T" indicates a tie for a place
C = Cancelled after the first round due to the COVID-19 pandemic
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Results in World Golf Championships
''Results not in chronological order before 2015.''
1Cancelled due to 9/11
2Cancelled due to COVID-19
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The symptoms of COVID‑19 can vary but often include fever ...
pandemic
QF, R16, R32, R64 = Round in which player lost in match play
"T" = tied
NT = No tournament
Note that the HSBC Champions did not become a WGC event until 2009.
Note that the Championship and Invitational were discontinued from 2022.
PGA and European Tour career summary
* As of 19 September 2020
These figures are from the respective tour's official sites. Note that there is double counting of money earned and wins in the majors and World Golf Championships.
Team appearances
Amateur
*Jacques Léglise Trophy
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(representing the Continent of Europe): 1995, 1997 (winners)
* European Boys' Team Championship (representing Spain): 1995, 1996 (winners), 1997 (winners)
* European Amateur Team Championship (representing Spain): 1995
1995 was designated as:
* United Nations Year for Tolerance
* World Year of Peoples' Commemoration of the Victims of the Second World War
This was the first year that the Internet was entirely privatized, with the United States government ...
, 1997
Events January
* January 1 – The Emergency Alert System is introduced in the United States.
* January 11 – Turkey threatens Cyprus on account of a deal to buy Russian S-300 missiles, prompting the Cypriot Missile Crisis.
* January 1 ...
(winners)
* Junior Ryder Cup (representing Europe): 1995 (winners), 1997
*Eisenhower Trophy
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(representing Spain): 1996
1996 was designated as:
* International Year for the Eradication of Poverty
Events January
* January 8 – A Zairean cargo plane crashes into a crowded market in the center of the capital city of the Democratic Republic of the Congo ...
, 1998
1998 was designated as the ''International Year of the Ocean''.
Events January
* January 6 – The ''Lunar Prospector'' spacecraft is launched into orbit around the Moon, and later finds evidence for Lunar water, frozen water, in soil i ...
* St Andrews Trophy (representing the Continent of Europe): 1996
Professional
*Alfred Dunhill Cup
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(representing Spain): 1999
1999 was designated as the International Year of Older Persons.
Events January
* January 1 – The euro currency is established and the European Central Bank assumes its full powers.
* January 3 – The Mars Polar Lander is launc ...
(winners)
*Ryder Cup
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(representing Europe): 1999
1999 was designated as the International Year of Older Persons.
Events January
* January 1 – The euro currency is established and the European Central Bank assumes its full powers.
* January 3 – The Mars Polar Lander is launc ...
, 2002
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(winners), 2004
2004 was designated as an International Year of Rice by the United Nations, and the International Year to Commemorate the Struggle Against Slavery and Its Abolition (by UNESCO).
Events January
* January 3 – Flash Airlines Flight 60 ...
(winners), 2006
2006 was designated as the International Year of Deserts and Desertification.
Events
January
* January 1– 4 – Russia temporarily cuts shipment of natural gas to Ukraine during a price dispute.
* January 12 – A stampede during t ...
(winners), 2008
2008 was designated as:
*International Year of Languages
*International Year of Planet Earth
*International Year of the Potato
*International Year of Sanitation
The Great Recession, a worldwide recession which began in 2007, continued throu ...
, 2012
2012 was designated as:
*International Year of Cooperatives
*International Year of Sustainable Energy for All
Events January
*January 4 – The Cicada 3301 internet hunt begins.
* January 12 – Peaceful protests begin in the R ...
(winners), 2014
The year 2014 was marked by the surge of the Western African Ebola epidemic, West African Ebola epidemic, which began in 2013, becoming the List of Ebola outbreaks, most widespread outbreak of the Ebola, Ebola virus in human history, resul ...
(winners), 2016
2016 was designated as:
* International Year of Pulses by the sixty-eighth session of the United Nations General Assembly.
* International Year of Global Understanding (IYGU) by the International Council for Science (ICSU), the Internationa ...
, 2018
Events January
* January 1 – Bulgaria takes over the Presidency of the Council of the European Union, after the Estonian presidency.
* January 4 – SPLM-IO rebels loyal to Chan Garang Lual start a raid against Juba, capital of ...
(winners), 2021
Like the year 2020, 2021 was also heavily defined by the COVID-19 pandemic, due to the emergence of multiple Variants of SARS-CoV-2, COVID-19 variants. The major global rollout of COVID-19 vaccines, which began at the end of 2020, continued ...
* Seve Trophy (representing Continental Europe): 2000
2000 was designated as the International Year for the Culture of Peace and the World Mathematics, Mathematical Year.
Popular culture holds the year 2000 as the first year of the 21st century and the 3rd millennium, because of a tende ...
(winners), 2003
2003 was designated by the United Nations as the International Year of Fresh water, Freshwater.
In 2003, a Multi-National Force – Iraq, United States-led coalition 2003 invasion of Iraq, invaded Iraq, starting the Iraq War.
Demographic ...
*World Cup
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(representing Spain): 2001
The year's most prominent event was the September 11 attacks against the United States by al-Qaeda, which Casualties of the September 11 attacks, killed 2,977 people and instigated the global war on terror. The United States led a Participan ...
, 2004
2004 was designated as an International Year of Rice by the United Nations, and the International Year to Commemorate the Struggle Against Slavery and Its Abolition (by UNESCO).
Events January
* January 3 – Flash Airlines Flight 60 ...
, 2005
2005 was designated as the International Year for Sport and Physical Education and the International Year of Microcredit. The beginning of 2005 also marked the end of the International Decade of the World's Indigenous Peoples, Internationa ...
, 2009
2009 was designated as the International Year of Astronomy by the United Nations to coincide with the 400th anniversary of Galileo Galilei's first known astronomical studies with a telescope and the publication of Astronomia Nova by Joha ...
Golf equipment
García previously had an endorsement deal with TaylorMade and Adidas
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, at the time a joint company used all TaylorMade equipment, and Adidas shoes and clothing.
Following the acquisition of TaylorMade by KPS Capital Partners and separation from Adidas and after fifteen years with the company, in January 2018 Sergio García severed his ties with TaylorMade, remained with Adidas and signed with Callaway. At the start of 2020, García confirmed he had parted ways with Callaway after two years to become a free agent.
See also
* List of golfers with most European Tour wins
* List of golfers with most Asian Tour wins
* Monday Night Golf
References
External links
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Interview
– ''The Observer
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In 1993 it was acquired by Guardian Media Group Limited, and operated as a sister paper to ''The Guardian'' ...
'', 8 October 2006
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Ryder Cup competitors for Europe
Olympic golfers for Spain
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Spanish football chairmen and investors
Men's association football players not categorized by position
Association football players not categorized by nationality
Tercera División players
Laureus World Sports Awards winners
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