{"id":772449,"date":"2026-07-01T16:35:11","date_gmt":"2026-07-01T16:35:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/772449\/"},"modified":"2026-07-01T16:35:11","modified_gmt":"2026-07-01T16:35:11","slug":"sergio-garcia-claims-lunch-time-lasagna-literally-spoiled-his-open-chances-australian-golf-digest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/772449\/","title":{"rendered":"Sergio Garcia claims lunch time lasagna (literally) spoiled his Open chances \u2013 Australian Golf Digest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sergio Garcia has made a number of questionable decisions on the golf course in his career. So many it\u2019s hard to pin point any single one as \u201cthe worst.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>Until Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Garcia, who has competed in 26 Open Championships in his career, was attempting to lock up a spot in his 27th at Final Qualifying at West Lancashire in England. He got off to a great start, shooting a 68 on the first 18, a score he\u2019d need to match or better to have a chance on the final 18. But first, lunch.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>What was on tap for the former Masters champ? Lasagna. In England.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI had a little bit of food there in the players lounge and it did not sit well with me,\u201d Garcia said after shooting a second-round 75 that spoiled his Open chances. And his stomach.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI only ate a lasagne,\u201d he added. \u201cI thought maybe have a little pasta and stuff, but for some reason it didn\u2019t sit well with me and I just felt nauseous the whole front nine. In the afternoon, I felt like I was going to vomit pretty much on every hole.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It mostly did the Spaniard in on the front 9, where he made four bogeys. He told Ben Parsons of The Today\u2019s Golfer that he felt OK again on the back side, but by then the damage was already done:<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">I spoke with Sergio Garcia after he missed out on Open FQ at West Lancs.<\/p>\n<p>Says he was feeling good after his first round, but then came a dodgy lasagne at lunchtime\u2026<\/p>\n<p>Full story: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/2K4dzuqpnI\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/t.co\/2K4dzuqpnI<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/dtLIq0793o\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/dtLIq0793o<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Ben Parsons (@_benparsons) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/_benparsons\/status\/2072026766684672284?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow\">June 30, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Tough break for Garcia, but we\u2019re not sure what he expected eating chicken lasagna in England in between rounds with the Open Championship on the line. It would be a wild meal choice if the two rounds were taking place in Italy, as delicious as that would be. You just cannot be eating lasagna before a crucial golf round, no matter who made it or where it was made.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>After playing in every Open between 1998 and 2022, Garcia will now miss his third Open in the last four years.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>This article was originally published on golfdigest.com<\/p>\n<p>    <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sergio Garcia has made a number of questionable decisions on the golf course in his career. So many&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":772450,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[566],"tags":[4225,64,63,755,138747,85],"class_list":["post-772449","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-golf","tag-article","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-golf","tag-golf-digest","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/772449","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=772449"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/772449\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/772450"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=772449"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=772449"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=772449"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}