Sergio Garcia‘s mission to play in his 25th straight Open Champion ended Tuesday when he stopped working to get approved for the season’s 4th significant.
Playing in a qualifier at West Lancashire Golf Club, Garcia shot a 5-under 67 in the early morning round of the 36-hole competitors. However after taking the lead at 8 under following 3 birdies in the very first 6 holes of the 2nd round, Garcia could not maintain the rate.
Garcia, 43, struck his drive into the rough on the par-4 seventh hole and he ended up with a bogey on his method to a 71 and a cumulative 6-under par.
He ended up connected for 6th after 36 holes, with just the leading 5 finishers getting approved for The Open, which starts July 20 at Royal Liverpool Golf Club in Merseyside, England.
” I have not truly missed out on numerous majors because turning pro in 1999, simply one since of COVID and the PGA a number of months back and sadly I’m going to miss this one,” Garcia stated.
” It’s an embarassment however it’s the video game. I felt I had it close, in the grasp of my hand, however that’s what it is. If you do not even come here you can’t get dissatisfied since you are not even attempting. I was attempting and sadly it simply wasn’t sufficient.”
Garcia, a member of the LIV Golf League, needed to go through certifying since he can not make world ranking points that cause automated berths in majors.
He won the Masters in 2017 for his sole significant title. He has 10 top-10 surfaces at The Open, connecting for 2nd in 2014 behind Rory McIlroy at Royal Liverpool and losing in a playoff in 2007 to Padraig Harrington at Carnoustie Golf Hyperlinks in Scotland.
Garcia will stay in England to play this weekend in the LIV London occasion.
On Tuesday, he ended up 5 shots behind leading qualifier Matt Wallace of England. Likewise certifying were Royal Liverpool member Matthew Jordan, South Africa’s Kyle Barker, England’s Alex Fitzpatrick— the more youthful bro of 2022 U.S. Open champ Matt Fitzpatrick— and German amateur Tiger Christensen.
” To have fun with my bro, Matt, in a significant will be incredible,” Alex Fitzpatrick stated. “I have actually never ever played in one and I was asking individuals just recently what it resembled to play in one, so it’s terrific to be able to experience it now.”
Matt Fitzpatrick required to social networks to applaud his bro.
ten years ago the other day I got approved for The Open for the very first time. Today my bro does the very same precise thing!! Could not be prouder and can’t wait to play a significant champion with him! pic.twitter.com/eKLEt0Elzq
— Matt Fitzpatrick (@MattFitz94) July 4, 2023
2 full-time LIV Golf members reached the field by means of last certifying at another place, Royal Porthcawl in Wales: South Africans Branden Grace and Charl Schwartzel Grace was the very first gamer to shoot a round of 62 at a significant at the 2017 Open Champion, and Schwartzel won the Masters in 2011.
” Being a global gamer, The Open is big,” Schwartzel stated. “I do not wish to put one in front of the others however I seem like The Open and Augusta go together in regards to status.”
Amongst LIV gamers who stopped working to certify were Graeme McDowell, Anirban Lahiri, Jason Kokrak and Dean Burmester
Info from Reuters and The Associated Press was utilized in this report.