Left: sponge. Right: Garcia
Augusta has already witnessed several fashion crimes already this week, from a cheap Wyndham Clark tablecloth with a polo collar to a black shirt and green tie combo a la waiter Dustin Johnson at a dinner of champions. But nothing compared to the lemon-and-lime outfit Sergio Garcia showed off on his first tour, an ensemble so colorful that his playing partners required sunglasses. It was like looking at a DayGlo elf, or perhaps an upside-down kitchen sponge.
True to his image, Garcia still considered himself the belle of the ball, revealing an outfit as he made his way into the kitchen with his wife. Angela in a specially filmed story for Instagram. It sounded like someone almost pathologically desperate for attention.
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There were clear echoes at the 2006 Open at Hoylake, where he wore head-to-toe canary yellow alongside Tiger Woods. in the final pair. Woods beat him with six shots that day and later tweeted to one of his friends: «I just scored Tweety Pie.» jpg»/>Garcia's previous attempt to get yellow was also unsuccessful. Photo: EPA/GEOFF CADDICK
This is the less pleasant side of Garcia on display at the Masters so far. Before even teeing off, he made the outlandish claim that the disagreement between the PGA Tour and his own clients at LIV Golf was just a media fabrication. “The professional game is maybe a little more divided, mostly because of the media and not so much because of the players,” he said. On Planet Sergio, the collapse of the sport is obviously the fault of the fourth estate, and not the Saudi Arabian Public Investment Fund, which invested billions in attracting 13 major champions. Grace, as always, is not his forte.
Augusta's greatness exacerbates the Spaniard's arrogant and humorless tendencies. It's hard, for example, to forget the moment in 2018 when he and his wife attacked an American TV presenter for making a harmless joke. After Garcia scored 13 on the 15th, the worst single-hole score in tournament history, Golf Channel's Rich Lerner joked that the couple would not name their next child Firethorne, the local name for the hole. They memorably named their daughter Azalea in tribute to his Masters victory last year.
Angela didn't see the funny side and angrily told Lerner, «Next time you decide to tweet about my baby's name, why don't you use your brain and do it?» Don't be an idiot.» Garcia himself added insult to injury, chiding the presenter but insisting he handled his failure on the field “like a champion should.”
However, few things were as tense as his recent history in Augusta, when he raged petulantly over every perceived slight. Last year he was furious when he was reminded that he had to pay a £100,000 fine for rebelling when joining LIV, which jeopardized the integrity of the DP World Tour. “You guys need to stop this,” he whined. “You make a big deal out of it.” This time he again suggested that he and his fellow LIV representatives were victims of a media conspiracy.
A persecution complex was firmly ingrained in Garcia's psyche. In 2022, when a PGA Tour official fined him for exceeding the three-minute time limit for searching for a lost ball, he snapped exasperatedly, “I can’t wait to get off this tour.” He knew, of course, that the Saudis were willing to pay him more to play less. In many ways, it was remarkable that they saw him as an attractive promotional figure for their project, given that he deliberately ruined five greens at the 2019 Saudi Invitational with his clubs, leaving damage that one observer compared to camel tracks.< /p>< p>For better or worse, Garcia constantly craves attention. And it was this hunger for headlines that inspired his Masters outfit choices, which he promoted all over social media.
Ian Poulter, a man who also loves dark color schemes, has his own philosophy of “look great, play great.” Will this principle hold true for Garcia? It didn't look that way when he hit his ball to Race Creek in the 12th on his way to double bogey. But such are the extremes of his temperament, he quickly healed the scars, holed out 60 feet for birdie on the 13th.
At 44, he remains a truly bewildering figure, offsetting the occasional brilliance with awkward eye gestures. me. When he signed for 72, a lackluster result given his flamboyant uniform, it was hard not to conclude that Tweety Pie had lost his chirp.
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