{"id":617683,"date":"2026-04-19T19:22:41","date_gmt":"2026-04-19T19:22:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/617683\/"},"modified":"2026-04-19T19:22:41","modified_gmt":"2026-04-19T19:22:41","slug":"sergio-garcia-apologises-over-final-round-tantrum-debate-over-punishment-video-latest-reaction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/617683\/","title":{"rendered":"Sergio Garcia apologises over final-round tantrum, debate over punishment, video, latest reaction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sergio Garcia has issued an apology following his tantrum-laced final round at the Masters that saw him handed a formal warning for smashing a club to pieces.<\/p>\n<p>The Spanish star\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com.au\/golf\/the-masters\/the-masters-2026-sergio-garcia-shredded-over-dummy-spit-breaks-driver-at-augusta-video\/news-story\/d7243d2c9ebee1fcd7ff451133189e66\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">frustration boiled over on Sunday <\/a>following a poor tee-shot at Augusta National\u2019s par-five second hole.<\/p>\n<p>The 46-year-old slammed his driver into the turf repeatedly before snapping the club\u2019s head off after smashing it into a nearby cooler.<\/p>\n<p><img class=\"i-amphtml-fill-content i-amphtml-replaced-content\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/poster-fallback.png\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\u201cI want to apologise for my actions on Sunday at the Masters tournament,\u201d Garcia wrote in a statement on social media.<\/p>\n<p>FOX SPORTS, available on Kayo Sports, is streaming The 2026 PGA Tour LIVE &amp; Exclusive | New to Kayo? <a href=\"https:\/\/kayosports.com.au\/en-AU\/welcome\/golf?pg=default&amp;extcamp=fsaeditoriallinkgolf-edt-fsp-lnk-awr-grc-glf-kyo&amp;channel=fsa&amp;campaign=fsacontra&amp;voucher=\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Join now and get your first month for just $1.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cI respect and value everything that the Masters and Augusta National Golf Club is to golf. I regret the way I acted and it has no place in our game.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt doesn\u2019t reflect the respect and appreciation I have for the Masters, the patrons, tournament officials and golf fans around the world.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Garcia, who plays on the LIV Golf tour, was also involved in a bizarre incident on the same round when he picked up playing partner Jon Rahm\u2019s golf bag and carried it as Rahm\u2019s caddie tended to a bunker.<\/p>\n<p>Masters officials took a dim view of Garcia\u2019s outburst and later handed him a code of conduct warning while still on the course.<\/p>\n<p>ESPN host Mike Greenberg went as far as suggesting Garcia deserved to have his Augusta membership revoked \u2014 though many said such a punishment would be going to far.<\/p>\n<p>Garcia later suggested his frustration had been building in the months leading up to last week\u2019s Masters tournament.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThrough the year. Just obviously not super proud of it, but sometimes it happens,\u201d he <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sergio Garcia has issued an apology following his tantrum-laced final round at the Masters that saw him handed&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":617684,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[566],"tags":[2620,64,11537,63,485,676,39959,755,108973,481,299526,6952,85,62378,2614],"class_list":{"0":"post-617683","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-golf","8":"tag-agence-france-presse","9":"tag-au","10":"tag-augusta-national-inc","11":"tag-australia","12":"tag-california","13":"tag-final-round","14":"tag-formal-warning","15":"tag-golf","16":"tag-golf-fans","17":"tag-los-angeles","18":"tag-masters-officials","19":"tag-sergio-garcia","20":"tag-sports","21":"tag-tournament-officials","22":"tag-united-states-of-america"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/617683","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=617683"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/617683\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/617684"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=617683"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=617683"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=617683"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}