Sergio Garc\u00eda\u2019s return to the scene of his greatest triumph has not been a happy one this weekend. The 2017 Masters champion made the cut at Augusta but on Sunday vented his frustration after a poor opening shot on the second hole by slamming his club into the ground before snapping off its head when he smashed it into a nearby cooler.<\/p>\n
Masters officials are known for strictly enforcing rules and Garc\u00eda was given a code of conduct warning for his outburst. A second code of conduct breach would result in a two-shot penalty and a third would lead to disqualification.<\/p>\n
Shortly after his outburst, Garc\u00eda picked up and carried clubs belonging to his playing partner, Jon Rahm, as Rahm\u2019s caddie raked the bunker.<\/p>\n
Garc\u00eda is not the first golfer to find himself in trouble with officials at this year\u2019s tournament. Scotland\u2019s Robert MacIntyre was reprimanded when he showed the middle finger to spectators after he hit a shot into the water on Thursday.<\/p>\n
Garc\u00eda started the day 16 shots behind the tournament\u2019s leaders, Rory McIlroy and Cameron Young. Although he made par on the second hole he bogeyed three of the first four on Sunday, slipping further back into the field.<\/p>\n
The 46-year-old is known for his temper. At last year\u2019s Open Championship at Royal Portrush, the Spaniard was forced to play most of his final round without his driver after he slammed the club into the ground and broke it on the second hole. <\/p>\n
In 2019, he was disqualified from a tournament in Saudi Arabia after he damaged several greens in frustration. In 2022, he got into a confrontation with an official at the Wells Fargo Championship after a dispute over a lost ball. During the argument, Garc\u00eda said: \u201cA couple of more weeks, I don\u2019t have to deal with you any more.\u201d He subsequently left the PGA Tour for LIV Golf. – Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sergio Garc\u00eda\u2019s return to the scene of his greatest triumph has not been a happy one this weekend.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":395885,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[61,60,112,160609],"class_list":["post-395884","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-sports","tag-the-masters"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/395884","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=395884"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/395884\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/395885"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=395884"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=395884"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=395884"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}