Sergio Garcia Loses it

Oliver1985

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OAX763MLFsc


What everyone make of this? Bit over the top really?

stringy

I feel his pain! but feck it, ok he reacted, some will say no place in golf for that, I suppose not if someone's I going to behave like that ALL the time, but a bit of excessive emotion every now and then, no biggie in my book. I've done it, and then you feel like a absolute twat afterwards but you've also de-stressed quite a bit too - good and bad vibes.

Smyth

I feel like doing this all the time. The only thing that stops me is the cost of the club. :P

Clareman

"Dear esteemed members of the committee,

I wish to express my sincere apologies for my behavior during the recent Monthly Medal competition on the 8th hole. I assure you that it was completely out of character. I am going to undertake a self imposed break from the club for the remainder of the year, I will return at the first big competition next year.

Yours sincerely,

Clareman"

There we go, that should cover me for when I do the same in my local club, I assume that they won't make a big deal out of it...............

RikkFlair

He's a disgrace to the game....2 months off? How about 2 years! Imagine the next guy who had to play from that position in that bunker after the state he left it in. I suppose thats what frustration does to you when you haven't realised your potential and you're a choker in the majors

The_Kew_Tour

Great player, but I think now he sees he may never win a major and I think it's getting to him you know.

sxt

I don't know. I would have time for sergio. That last 2 or 3 years must of hurt deeep every day when everyody asks him will he ever live up to potential... and to realise this same week that he is not going to be playing in the ryder cup,something he would a discussed earlier with Montgomerie. Garcia has played a significant part every time he played in the Ryder cup and has always excelled for europe. That is the emotion that you saw yesterday, that is the pain that sergio is feeling right now, He might feel his chance is gone? or that he will never feel the highs he has experienced like playing in the ryder cup again..I have alot of sympathy for sergio and I hope his break does him the world of good...He head is obviously not in the right space at the moment to compete, but he will be back and will win a major!

f22

Sorry, he's a petulant child at the best of times but that took the biscuit. There are others who have gone and are going through worse and still manage to behave themselves. VJs putting is as bad, David Duval and Steve Stricker collapsed down the world rankings, and Michael Campbell has been possessed by an orangoutang.

Go away and sort out your head you clown!

Aidric

Amazing outburst. I've never had much time for Garcia, always struck me as an ungracious 'all about me' sort of person. His potential is evident but a collection of chokes have just eaten away at his confidence.

ianuss

Maybe it's just me, but has nobody else here ever done that? I may not have gone nuts in a bunker but I'v definitely givin the ground a good pasting over the years (never the fairways though).

copacetic

meh, just something for all the haters to use. He'd already planned a couple of months off to try and get his head together...

neckedit

There is no justification for what he done, he has proved himself to be bad tampered and arrogant, this, for the haters, is the icing on the cake.......pure tosser!

AndyP

Never liked him. Mostly for not having the decency to come back and defend his Irish Open title, it was after all the tournament that gave him his break. Then there was the shoe kicking in Wentworth and now this. Always has acted like a spoiled brat.

FlawedGenius

This wasnt a once off because hes going through a tough spell, he spat in the hole before when he missed a putt and is in general a narky cnut in interviews, pr*ck.

Fourcandle

I saw his temper first hand, stood not ten feet from him playing his second to the 17th in Mount Julliet in the WGC Amercian Express a few years ago. He pulled his second shot left of the green and proceeded to bury the club several feet into the fairway. He wrenched the club out and walked up and pitched in for an eagle and broke the course record while Tiger was playing th ninth. Only his own temper is hindering him as he has the game.

JerryHandbag

AndyP wrote: »

Never liked him. Mostly for not having the decency to come back and defend his Irish Open title, it was after all the tournament that gave him his break. Then there was the shoe kicking in Wentworth and now this. Always has acted like a spoiled brat.

When was this? He won it in 99 and he was back in Ballybunion the following year.

copacetic

JerryHandbag wrote: »

When was this? He won it in 99 and he was back in Ballybunion the following year.

pah, get away you with your facts! they'll only get in the way. He cam in top 15/20 too I think in 2000.

Nice to see that people are going around hating players for 10 years for no reason!

Kace

Poor old Sergio - I blame it all on Harrington !!

supersean1999

haha maybe if he done it more often he might of played a bit better,

Jarzinho

Very sad to see and a bit disturbing as well, I have battered clubs off the ground before but never went crazy in a bunker - I remember Wayne Riley taking various expensive chunks out of many a golf course in the past though and not much was made out of that, I suppose before YouTube was invented and also due to the fact that he was more of a Journeyman Pro!

Garcia has been great in the Ryder Cup and Europe will be a weaker team without the "real" Sergio for sure, the passion he brings will hopefully be replaced with the Molinaris playing. He was very close in the Majors, what he might have done if he had beat Woods back in 1999 - we'll never know. I hope the break does him good because he was a joy to watch when he was striking the ball like no other a few years back.

mag

has to be short odds on him never winning a major now

Davidth88

I was at the British Master in 1992 when it was at Woburn.

Paul Azinger went into a bunker made a poorish shot out , proceeded to smash his club into the face of the bunker about 10 times breaking huge lumps of turf off the top.

I was pretty disgusted TBH

Figured that was a great example for the many kids watching .

f22

I don't thinking Garcia will win one for quite a few years if ever. Perhaps when he finally settles down and perhaps has kids it may give him a new perspective and he'll finally grow up. Can't see that happening anytime soon though!

mag

f22 wrote: »

I don't thinking Garcia will win one for quite a few years if ever. Perhaps when he finally settles down and perhaps has kids it may give him a new perspective and he'll finally grow up. Can't see that happening anytime soon though!

he'll still be a sh1te putter though

Ginny007

I think he should take at least a 3 month brake give his head a chance to recover.

durkadurka

Kace wrote: »

Poor old Sergio - I blame it all on Harrington !!

I think this is actually true. I can just see him personally blaming harri for his cracking when it really mattered against padraig.

Twice.
He's great at blaming others, mcginley's caddy spending ten minutes to rake a bunker or some such crap, the setup in augusta, his shoe IIRC.

He should enjoy his break and come back renewed and hungry.

The Orb

ianuss wrote: »

Maybe it's just me, but has nobody else here ever done that? I may not have gone nuts in a bunker but I'v definitely givin the ground a good pasting over the years (never the fairways though).

No self respecting club golfer would do what he did, as a pro he cannot behave
like he did, in the past Sergio has thrown clubs, shoes etc....he is a pup, he will never win a major until he grows up, he is no more than a petulant child.

stockdam

I feel like doing it all the time but I don't as I realise it's all my shortcomings. I recently played with a guy who really got to me. Every 2nd tee shot the club would be thrown at the bag. I ended up loosing concentration and ruined a fairly decent round.

I do like Sergio but tantrums are all about deflecting attention away from poor play which only the player can control.

'scorthy

stockdam wrote: »

....I do like Sergio but tantrums are all about deflecting attention away from poor play which only the player can control.

Agree, it can be a frustrating game at times but there is no justification for this type of outburst. My round was recently marred by a young golfer on another fairway who had hit a poor recovery shot from the pines and became irate at the two elderly golfers in my company, some 60 metres away from him, accusing us of excessive noise. He was obnoxious and even as we headed towards our green he continue his verbal onslaught. I just had to stop and go back and challenge him and take his name. Sergio's behaviour and similar demonstrations of anger on the course from pros shows bad example. Personally, I'm more inclined to smile at my duffs; but then I'm not trying to make a living from it. Still....

connie147

FFS, the guy is a multi, multi millionaire from the game.
So the powers that be possibly rob dustin johnsone of a major title because he grounded his club in a phantom bunker by penalising him 2 shots, while they turn a blind eye to Sergio kicking the shyte out of it. If they had any balls (no pun intended) they wouldnt have left Garcia play on the following day.
In every sport in the world, youngsters take their leads from their idols. garcia should be ashamed of himself. And saying "havent we all done it ourselves", doesnt cut it either. Sure, some might have, but not in full view of millions of people, and probably in the middle of their own amatuer round, with a couple of playing partners, and probably extremely embarrassed by their own actions.

Remember when Lee Westwood lost his swing and disappeared out of the worlds top 200? he must have been just as frustrated as garcia about his game, but never did we see them type of on course antics.

I used to admire Garcia as a player. "Used to" being the appropiate word.

end of rant

gawoo1012

connie147 wrote: »

FFS, the guy is a multi, multi millionaire from the game.
So the powers that be possibly rob dustin johnsone of a major title because he grounded his club in a phantom bunker by penalising him 2 shots, while they turn a blind eye to Sergio kicking the shyte out of it. If they had any balls (no pun intended) they wouldnt have left Garcia play on the following day.
In every sport in the world, youngsters take their leads from their idols. garcia should be ashamed of himself. And saying "havent we all done it ourselves", doesnt cut it either. Sure, some might have, but not in full view of millions of people, and probably in the middle of their own amatuer round, with a couple of playing partners, and probably extremely embarrassed by their own actions.

Remember when Lee Westwood lost his swing and disappeared out of the worlds top 200? he must have been just as frustrated as garcia about his game, but never did we see them type of on course antics.

I used to admire Garcia as a player. "Used to" being the appropiate word.

end of rant

His recent behaviour makes Podge Harrington's triple fist pump, put that in your pipe and smoke it celebration after draining the winning putt in the 2008 PGA look like good karma....reckon Harrington has a lot to do with his slide as he has never really recovered from being pipped for both the Open at Muirfield and the PGA...

fullstop

gawoo1012 wrote: »

His recent behaviour makes Podge Harrington's triple fist pump, put that in your pipe and smoke it celebration after draining the winning putt in the 2008 PGA look like good karma....reckon Harrington has a lot to do with his slide as he has never really recovered from being pipped for both the Open at Muirfield and the PGA...

Carnoustie...

The_Kew_Tour

He might really have lost it after he got a 11 in Par 5 today at St Jude

Young_gunner

Imagine if Tiger had done to that bunker what Sergio did?

there'd be 10 threads started on how he should be banned for 15 years or so !

k.p.h

The world would end .......

Oliver1985

He lost it again yesterday , gave the fairway a good bash Hope he wins tomorrow

Tones69

Does anyone else find that hilarious, just cos its the sand and all the whacking and hitting wont make a bit of difference, if that was a green he was wreckin now i probably wudnt find it as funny