{"id":854,"date":"2013-05-15T08:49:50","date_gmt":"2013-05-15T12:49:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bigredsportsmachine.com\/?p=854"},"modified":"2013-05-15T08:49:50","modified_gmt":"2013-05-15T12:49:50","slug":"tuesday-teabag-may-14-2013-sergio-garcia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bigredsportsmachine.com\/?p=854","title":{"rendered":"Tuesday Teabag, May 14, 2013 – Sergio Garcia"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Sergio\"<\/a>

Here we go again…<\/p><\/div>\n

Apologies to Cliff Harris and Titus Young.\u00a0 Their combined 6 arrests in the past 10 days is impressive, and normally would result in a teabag\u2026but they\u2019ll have to settle for an HMT this week.\u00a0 Don\u2019t worry fellas, The Machine\u2019s pretty sure you\u2019re not off our teabag radar just yet, although you might both be off the NFL\u2019s radar.\u00a0<\/p>\n

No, this week we focus on the gentlemen\u2019s game and none other than Sergio Garcia.\u00a0 When you look at the whole picture, Sergio\u2019s got a pretty good thing going.\u00a0 He\u2019s a superstar on the PGA tour and European tour, makes a ton of cash, usually around the Top 10, and we\u2019re guessing he doesn\u2019t have trouble with the ladies.\u00a0 And, off the course, he seems like a pretty cool guy.\u00a0 For all those awesome things, there\u2019s this little nugget:\u00a0 he chokes under pressure and on the course he\u2019s a spoiled, temperamental, diva who can\u2019t get out of his own and will blame others for his shortcomings.\u00a0 He clearly owns the title of \u201cBest Player never to win a Major\u201d and, from what happened on Sunday at Sawgrass, he ain\u2019t giving that up anytime soon.<\/p>\n

As I\u2019m sure you\u2019ve seen, Sergio was in the final pairing on Sunday, tied for the lead with Tiger Woods on the second to last hole at -13.\u00a0 Tiger was on 18 and would finish his round at -13.\u00a0 Things were looking good.\u00a0 If Sergio could par the last two holes, he\u2019d force a playoff with Woods\u2026given the history between these two and what happened on Saturday (keep reading) pairing these two in a playoff would be epic.\u00a0 If he could birdie 17 or 18, he\u2019d win the tournament, and in the process go a long way towards shaking the choker label.\u00a0 What happened next is unbelievable.<\/p>\n

Tee shot on the par 3, 17\u2026splash.\u00a0 The crowd was stunned.\u00a0 Not to worry, it\u2019s a par 3.\u00a0 If he can get up and down, take bogey 4, he could still birdie 18 and force a playoff.\u00a0 However, Sergio went full Sergio.\u00a0 Second tee shot\u2026splash, into the water again.\u00a0 An eerie silence fell over the crowd, nobody could believe what they were witnessing.\u00a0 Sergio finally got his third tee shot on the green, then two putt for a 7, dropping him all the way back to -9, and ensuring another defeat on the big stage.<\/p>\n

To make matters worse, he still had the 18th<\/sup> hole to play.\u00a0 Could there be a bigger walk of shame?\u00a0 His tee shot on 18?\u00a0 Dead hook into the water\u2026Sergio ended up with a double bogey 6.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Consider this:\u00a0 for the first 70 holes of the tournament, Sergio was -13.\u00a0 For the last two, +6.\u00a0 Tiger Woods would go on to win the tournament, his fourth of the year already, firmly re-establishing himself as golf\u2019s greatest.\u00a0 And this is where the story gets interesting.<\/p>\n

In Saturday\u2019s round, Tiger and Sergio were paired together.\u00a0 Two superstars that obviously would draw the biggest crowd.\u00a0 They also don\u2019t like each other, a feud going back to the early 2000\u2019s.\u00a0 On the second hole, as Sergio was about to take his approach shot, commotion came from the crowd on the other side of the fairway as he was in the middle of his backswing.\u00a0 He shanked the shot, bogeyed the hole, and immediately looked to his left to where Tiger was. \u00a0Tiger had pulled out his club [insert sex scandal joke here] which elicited a (roar if you\u2019re Sergio, slight kerfuffle if you\u2019re Tiger) from the crowd.\u00a0 Seriously?\u00a0 You guys cheer when he pulls out a 3 wood?\u00a0 How pathetic are golf crowds?\u00a0 Anyway, Tiger claims the marshal told him Sergio had already hit\u2026we now know that to be false because the marshal said he never talked to Tiger.\u00a0 So, either (a) Tiger assumed he had hit, (b) didn\u2019t think about it because he could care less about Sergio, or (c) intentionally pulled out his club at the exact moment Sergio started his backswing, knowing that doing so would elicit a roar\/slight kerfuffle from the crowd.\u00a0 A and b seems the most plausible.<\/p>\n

Either way, as soon as that happened, The Machine knew there was no way Sergio would win.\u00a0 If you listened to his comments after the third round, whining about how Tiger ruined his round, you knew there was no chance he\u2019d pull it together on Sunday.\u00a0 Tiger had gotten into his head.\u00a0 The collapse was inevitable.<\/p>\n

And that\u2019s the enigma of Sergio.\u00a0 Wildly talented, successful, and popular, he\u2019s won his share of tournaments, and is highly regarded as a great player.\u00a0 This year, he\u2019s played in 8 events, earned an impressive $1.3 million, but won none of them.\u00a0 And that sums up Sergio\u2019s career perfectly.\u00a0 He\u2019ll play well enough to finish in the Top 10, and may sneak out a win here or there.\u00a0 However, when it\u2019s crunch time at a big tournament, forget about it\u2026The Machine and its 20+ handicap may as well be playing the final round.\u00a0 He\u2019s got the biggest case of the yips on the tour.\u00a0<\/p>\n

He\u2019s 33 now\u2026no longer the carefree kid that burst on the tour stage a dozen plus years ago.\u00a0 While there\u2019s still time left to win a major (Jack won one at 46) he\u2019s going to have to find some way to not go mental on Sunday.\u00a0 Until that happens, he\u2019s likely never to win a big one.\u00a0 But he will forever have the distinction of the first golfer ever to win a teabag.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Apologies to Cliff Harris and Titus Young.\u00a0 Their combined 6 arrests in the past 10 days is impressive, and normally would result in a teabag\u2026but they\u2019ll have to settle for an HMT this week.\u00a0 Don\u2019t worry fellas, The Machine\u2019s pretty … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-854","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tuesday-teabag"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2Bp3y-dM","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bigredsportsmachine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/854","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bigredsportsmachine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bigredsportsmachine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bigredsportsmachine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bigredsportsmachine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=854"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.bigredsportsmachine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/854\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":857,"href":"https:\/\/www.bigredsportsmachine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/854\/revisions\/857"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bigredsportsmachine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=854"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bigredsportsmachine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=854"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bigredsportsmachine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=854"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}