After lacking his second consecutive Open Championship by a pair pictures in remaining qualifying, Sergio Garcia was pictured signing autographs for a couple of younger followers.
Fairly the group, maybe a minimum of a thousand, got here out to look at the 44-year-old main champion on Tuesday at West Lancashire in England – and it affected the Spaniard’s play, he admitted.
Garcia shot 3 below after rounds of 71-70, and through his opening spherical, Garcia was proven on video showing to argue with somebody off digital camera, shouting, “You’re proper, we’re at all times fallacious!”
Sergio Garcia livid at his gradual play warning at Remaining Open Qualifying – saying followers are inflicting the delays. Right here he takes his anger out at two R&A officers.
“You’re proper, we’re at all times fallacious.” pic.twitter.com/hO2mzYgSRa
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Bunkered’s Ben Parsons, who was on web site, reported that Garcia was sad with the dearth of crowd management and that his group was placed on the clock regardless of having to typically anticipate throngs of spectators to clear earlier than hitting tee pictures.
Parsons added that the R&A upped the variety of marshals for Garcia’s second spherical to fifteen.
Garcia instructed Parsons afterward: “It’s quite simple. When you’ve 2,000 folks following us with no ropes, nothing. The marshals have been attempting to do the perfect job they may do however clearly we needed to cease just about on each tee for 2-3 minutes to hit our tee pictures as a result of folks have been strolling in entrance of the tee and on the green. Until we wished to begin hitting folks we couldn’t hit. I don’t assume they took that into consideration and that was unlucky. It made us rush. On a day like right now when the situations are so tough and also you would possibly want somewhat of bit of additional time right here and there it doesn’t assist out.
“Due to that I made a few bogeys that may value me attending to Troon.”
Garcia, who carded 4 of his 5 bogeys in Spherical 1, didn’t find yourself advancing, although his fellow LIV participant, Sam Horsfield, was amongst 4 who did.
