European Ryder Cup captain Padraig Harrington has named Sergio Garcia, Shane Lowry and Ian Poulter as his three captain’s picks for this year’s contest, which gets under way at Whistling Straits in Wisconsin in just 12 days’ time. Lowry was knocked out of the automatic qualification places when Bernd Wiesberger finished tied 20th at Wentworth, lifting the Austrian into the final spot on the European points list and pushing Rory McIlroy over to the world points list. The Irishman went into […]
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European Ryder Cup captain Padraig Harrington has named Sergio Garcia, Shane Lowry and Ian Poulter as his three captain’s picks for this...
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Sergio Garcia eagled the 9th hole at TPC Sawgrass to take a two-shot after the first round of the PGA Tour’s Players Championship. Starting his round on the 10th hole, the Spaniard, who won the tournament in 2008, made a birdie at the 15th and an eagle at the 16th, before charging to the top of the leaderboard with birdies at 2, 7 and 8 and then a stunning eagle at the 9th to complete a superb seven-under-par 65. “I’ve always said it, […]
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Sergio Garcia eagled the 9th hole at TPC Sawgrass to take a two-shot after the first round of the PGA Tour’s Players Championship....
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Former champion Sergio Garcia has been ruled out of this week’s Masters after testing positive for Covid-19. Garcia, who defeated Justin Rose in a play-off to win his only major title to date at Augusta National in 2017, will miss his first major championship since 1999. The 40-year-old Spaniard wrote on Twitter: “On Saturday night after driving back from the Houston Open, I started feeling a bit of a sore throat and a cough. The symptoms stayed with me on […]
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