Updated:15/07/2021 20:17h
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Sergio García’s career, long-lived and triumphant, usually tends to be undervalued. A child prodigy of world golf, he has been a professional for twenty-two years and had to endure in the first eighteen the pressure of feeling like a favorite every week and of not having won a big one. Until the 2017 Masters came.
Between the temporal coincidence with the best player in history, Tiger Woods, and the fickle character of the Castellón, that absence of majors was beginning to be a slab of very difficult solution. But, fortunately for him, Jon Rahm appeared on the scene in 2016 and Sergio was released. The fact that there was another Spaniard in the center of attention had a double risk: either falling into jealousy for losing the limelight or being a stimulus not to get off the pedestal. As he opted for the second option, as soon as Garcia arrived in Augusta the following year without being asked about his options, the result was seen: a green jacket.
Now, with the disaster that the pandemic is assuming, something similar happens. The Castellón oscillates in his moments of form and is not standing out in the big ones, but in this 2021 he has already given reasons for hope at the end in the top twenty at the US Open after missing the cut in the previous four majors. And it was yesterday at the British, when the great attraction was again Rahm, when he gave the best of the season.
In a field that he knows perfectly as Royal St. George’s (he was ninth in 2011 and tenth in 2003) he drew on his great talent to sign two shots under par on a day beaten by the wind in which former champions like Louis Oosthuizen ( -6), Jordan Spieth (-5) or Stuart Cink (-4) took the opportunity to place themselves at the top of the table. The best of all is that Sergio felt loose in the game (five birdies) and also in his mind, well was able to overcome three bogeys without breaking down. On other occasions when he had come under more pressure, the result was not exactly the same.
On the opposite side of the scale was the performance of the Biscayan, to whom the lack of success on the greens led to a gray and disappointing performance. Especially because it impoverished a round of fighting and good play that did not correspond to the final result (+1). Today he will have to fight to pass the cut with Gonzalo Fernández-Castaño (+1) and Jorge Campillo (+2), the birdie with which he said goodbye on the 18th hole should give him good feelings. But you need to put your putter back together. Meanwhile, Rafa Cabrera (pair), fighter as always, should not be trusted if you want to stay alive the weekend.
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