Open Championship<\/a>. <\/p>\nThe Spaniard, who was making a third attempt to reach golf\u2019s oldest major here on the Merseyside links, was in prime contention for one of five spots after opening with a first round 68 in this 36-hole marathon.<\/p>\n
But then Garcia entered the player\u2019s lounge in the West Lancs clubhouse before his second round. A chicken lasagne was on the menu, and as soon as he finished gorging on his lunch, the problems began.<\/p>\n
\u201cI had a little bit of food there in the players lounge and it did not sit\u00a0well with me,\u201d Garcia told a handful of reporters afterwards.<\/p>\n
\u201cI only ate a lasagne.\u00a0I thought maybe have a little pasta and stuff, but for some reason it didn\u2019t sit well with\u00a0me and I just felt nauseous the whole front nine. In the afternoon, I felt like I was going\u00a0to vomit pretty much on every hole.\u201d<\/p>\n
By the time Garcia had reached the turn, he had dropped four shots and was considering withdrawing. He stuck with it, signed for a 75 and then bemoaned an unusual case of bad luck.<\/p>\n
\u201cI thought about stopping after nine,\u201d he admitted. \u201cBut I thought, well, let\u2019s play\u00a0a couple more and see if I get something going, but unfortunately it didn\u2019t\u00a0happen.<\/p>\n
\u201cObviously I love The Open\u00a0and I want to give myself as many chances as possible to play it. Ideally, hopefully\u00a0I\u2019ll keep playing well and get in the top 50 in the world and then I won\u2019t have to worry\u00a0about coming in and qualifying.\u201d<\/p>\n
Garcia added: \u201cI\u2019m still working hard. When I was feeling healthy today I felt pretty good. I hit a lot of good shots this morning. Even on the second nine when I kind of started feeling a bit better again, I hit a lot of good shots. But those first nine holes killed me.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s a shame. It\u2019s tough. When you\u2019re this age and you\u2019re playing 36 holes you feel like you need to eat a little bit between the rounds and you do that and it doesn\u2019t sit well with you and you\u2019re struggling with your stomach pretty much the whole second round, it\u2019s tough.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou come all the way here to give it your best shot and not feeling 100% there, it hurts a lot.\u201d<\/p>\n
Among the other notable names frustrated at West Lancs were fellow Masters champion Danny Willett and Matt Wallace. Willett finished on four-under, four shots shy of a playoff, while his playing partner Wallace walked in with a few holes remaining. <\/p>\n
The Englishman is nursing a back problem, and, as he fell out of contention down the stretch, decided to call it a day ahead of a flight to Illinois on Wednesday morning for the John Deere Classic<\/a>.<\/p>\nThe five players to get through qualifying at West Lancs were Sam Bairstow, Kazuma Kobori, Tiger Christensen, Jose Ballester and Matthew Jordan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sergio Garcia\u2019s hopes of qualifying for The Open were derailed at West Lancashire \u2013 but not for the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":736085,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[71],"tags":[427,99],"class_list":["post-736084","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-golf","tag-golf","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/736084","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=736084"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/736084\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/736085"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=736084"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=736084"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=736084"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}