{"id":602820,"date":"2026-04-12T21:42:11","date_gmt":"2026-04-12T21:42:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/602820\/"},"modified":"2026-04-12T21:42:11","modified_gmt":"2026-04-12T21:42:11","slug":"sergio-garcia-damages-tee-breaks-driver-in-final-round-outburst-australian-golf-digest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/602820\/","title":{"rendered":"Sergio Garcia damages tee, breaks driver in final-round outburst \u2013 Australian Golf Digest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sergio Garcia damaged the turf on the second tee during the final round of the Masters, then followed that by breaking his driver after an errant shot.<\/p>\n<p>RELATED: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.australiangolfdigest.com.au\/masters-2026-robert-macintyre-reprimanded-augusta-national-officials-language-obscene-gesture\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Robert MacIntyre \u2018reprimanded\u2019 by Augusta National officials over language and obscene gesture, according to report<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The LIV Golf member and 2017 Masters champion made the cut this week at Augusta National, although began the day 16 shots behind co-leaders Rory McIlroy and Cameron Young. His fortunes did not improve early in the final round, bogeying the first hole before spraying his drive right at the second. The ball was still in flight when the Spaniard angrily took two swipes at the turf, taking chunks out of the teeing ground in the process.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\ud83d\udea8\ud83d\ude24\ud83e\udee8 <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/WATCH?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">#WATCH<\/a> \u2014 Sergio Garcia is LIVID! He absolutely UNLOADS on the tee box after a poor golf shot in the final round at Augusta  \ud83e\udee8 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/YI4UkSVxHW\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/YI4UkSVxHW<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; NUCLR GOLF (@NUCLRGOLF) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NUCLRGOLF\/status\/2043328628272910829?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">April 12, 2026<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/p>\n<p>Garcia then walked towards a cooler right of the tee and swung his driver at it, snapping the head off his club:<\/p>\n<p>He was reportedly handed an official code of conduct warning by Masters competition committee member Geoff Yang.<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/garcia-and-geoff-yang-1024x576.webp.webp\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-145519\"  \/><\/p>\n<p>The incident is the latest in a career of behaviour issues for Garcia, who was disqualified at the 2019 Saudi International for \u201cserious misconduct\u201d after purposefully damaging several greens the day after having a meltdown in a bunker. Three years later, Garcia signed with the Saudi-backed LIV Golf league\u2026 weeks after throwing a temper tantrum at a rules official at a PGA Tour event.<\/p>\n<p>Garcia is in the field thanks to winning the 2017 Masters. However, he has been irrelevant on the major stages since capturing the green jacket, failing to post a single top-10.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.australiangolfdigest.com.au\/tournaments\/themasters\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">CLICK HERE FOR FULL\u00a0GOLF DIGEST\u00a0MASTERS COVERAGE<\/a><\/p>\n<p>    <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sergio Garcia damaged the turf on the second tee during the final round of the Masters, then followed&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":602821,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[566],"tags":[290030,4225,64,59820,63,25273,293584,755,138747,130098,44,101571,6952,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-602820","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-golf","8":"tag-2026-masters","9":"tag-article","10":"tag-au","11":"tag-augusta-national-golf-club","12":"tag-australia","13":"tag-damage","14":"tag-geoff-yang","15":"tag-golf","16":"tag-golf-digest","17":"tag-masters-tournament","18":"tag-news","19":"tag-outburst","20":"tag-sergio-garcia","21":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/602820","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=602820"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/602820\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/602821"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=602820"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=602820"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=602820"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}