{"id":39845,"date":"2023-08-24T02:54:46","date_gmt":"2023-08-24T02:54:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/?p=39845"},"modified":"2023-08-24T02:54:46","modified_gmt":"2023-08-24T02:54:46","slug":"garcia-in-search-of-maiden-win-in-scotland-at-st-andrews-bay-championship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/?p=39845","title":{"rendered":"Garcia in search of maiden win in Scotland at St Andrews Bay Championship"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" size-full wp-image-39844\" src=\"https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Garcia.jpg\" alt=\"Garcia\" style=\"display: block; margin: 8px auto;\" width=\"835\" height=\"550\" srcset=\"https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Garcia.jpg 835w, https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Garcia-300x198.jpg 300w, https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Garcia-768x506.jpg 768w, https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Garcia-150x99.jpg 150w, https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Garcia-696x458.jpg 696w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 835px) 100vw, 835px\" \/>St Andrews, Scotland<\/strong>: Sergio Garcia\u2019s illustrious career has been highlighted by six victories on the Asian Tour but this week his relationship with the Tour takes a new turn when he competes in the circuit\u2019s first-ever event on Scottish soil, at the St Andrew Bay Championship at Fairmont St Andrews \u2013 the sixth stop of the season on the flourishing International Series.<\/p>\n<p>After two decades of making trips to compete in Asia, the 2017 Masters champion is excited about this week\u2019s unique opportunity, which also gives him the chance of winning his first title in Scotland, as a professional.<\/p>\n<p>Said Garcia: \u201cIt would be nice to win [in Scotland] obviously I have been close a few times. If you count the Ryder Cup, yes, I have won here. It is something I would like to have the possibility of changing. We\u2019ll give it our best shot.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Garcia, 43, claimed the Amateur Championship in 1998 at Muirfield, and was part of the Spanish team, along with Miguel \u00c1ngel Jim\u00e9nez and Jos\u00e9 Mar\u00eda Olaz\u00e1bal, to win the Alfred Dunhill Cup the following year on the Old Course here at St Andrews, but the closest he has come to triumphing since was in The Open at Carnoustie in 2007 \u2013 when Ireland\u2019s Padraig Harrington denied him victory after a four-hole play-off.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is very exciting. Winning is one of the reason why we are here,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI have always enjoyed playing in Scotland. I love the crowds here and it\u2019s good to see. I didn\u2019t have to come and play this week, but I wanted to, it really drove me to come here.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>At Wednesday\u2019s press conference, England\u2019s Paul Casey said it hadn\u2019t occurred to him how unusual it is for the Asian Tour to be in Scotland as major Tour\u2019s today hold events all over the world, and Garcia felt the same.<\/p>\n<p>He said: \u201cIt is something you don\u2019t really think about. We play in so many different places and so many different Tours and I think at the end of the day the game is a global game, so I think that is the way I look at it. The Asian Tour is playing in a lot of spots now. I see it as a positive and something nice and it just shows how global our game is.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd I am sure there are other places they want to go, and they have to find what fits best for everyone. Best it\u2019s good to see and you never know maybe they will add one or two more here.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Spaniard claimed his first title in Asia in 2002 at the Korean Open, and he has been a regular visitor since.<\/p>\n<p>And his success in Asia also extends to the LIV Golf League: he captained the Fireball GC team to success in Bangkok last year, and narrowly missed securing his first individual title after being beaten by American Talor Gooch in a play-off Singapore in April.<\/p>\n<p>His adaptability to play and win anywhere is borne out by the fact that his Asian Tour wins have come in China, Korea, Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand and Vietnam.<\/p>\n<p>It is surprising that Scotland has yet to deliver him silverware but a win here this week will be the 37th of his career and his first since the 2020 Sanderson Farms Championship, on the PGA Tour, plus his first on the Asian Tour since his memorable triumph at the Singapore Open in 2018, at Sentosa Golf Club \u2013 where the Asian Tour is headquartered.<\/p>\n<p>Garcia tees off at 12.20pm tomorrow with American Harold Varner III and Anirban Lahiri from India.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>St Andrews, Scotland: Sergio Garcia\u2019s illustrious career has been highlighted by six victories on the Asian Tour but this week his relationship with the Tour takes a new turn when he competes in the circuit\u2019s first-ever event on Scottish soil, at the St Andrew Bay Championship at Fairmont St Andrews \u2013 the sixth stop of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":39844,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39845","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-golf-golf"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Garcia in search of maiden win in Scotland at St Andrews Bay Championship - IndianSportsNews.com - Latest Updated Sports News &amp; 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