“He’s irrelevant now, nobody cares”- Why was Sergio Garcia mad at PGA?
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Now having joined LIV golf, twice-major champion Sergio Garcia was once a regular on the PGA Tour. Garcia also played a lot of tournaments on the European DP World Tour but has since resigned from both PGA and DP, and why not, especially when the Saudi-rich LIV league is offering money to fill your pockets with little work!
In this article, we will explore the circumstances that led to Garcia and probably some other golfers leaving the PGA to join the cash-rich LIV golf league.
At the TPC Potomac tournament in May this year, Sergio Garcia wasn’t allowed enough time to search for a lost ball he had driven inside a river with his tee shot.
At PGA, players are allotted three minutes to find lost balls once they arrive near the vicinity of the spot where the ball has supposed to have landed. Garcia argued with officials that he hadn’t begin searching or hadn’t reached the vicinity until he crossed the river.
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Sergio Garcia asked officials if they wanted him to swim through the river to get the ball quickly enough
“You want me to swim through the river? I wasn’t looking for the ball there. I was looking for the ball once I got onto this side. Does that make sense? I can’t wait to leave this tour. … I can’t wait to get out of here, my friend,” said Garcia, who apart from all his success and resilience is also known to have a temper on the course.
And Garcia followed up his threat by actually going down to join LIV right after that tournament where he said, “A couple of more weeks, I don’t have to deal with you anymore.”
Although the PGA later admitted their gaffe, saying Garcia should have been allowed more time, it was probably too late and they had lost a great name from the tour already.
“To clarify, the time spent by Garcia trying to access the other side of the creek should have delayed the start of the search time clock, and the ball would have still been ‘in play’ if not for that error,” the PGA Tour had said in May this year after the controversial event.
If the PGA actually wants to retain big names, it has to be on the top of its fairness and ethics decisions, as this is something top golfers won’t compromise with, especially at a time when there are bigger or better offers available from elsewhere.
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