Sergio Garcia has said he is choosing not to dwell on his Masters performance.
Attempting to defend his title from a year ago – his first major in 20 years as a professional golfer – it all went wrong on the 15th hole of the Spaniard’s first round.
It took Garcia 13 shots to sink the ball on the hole named “Firethorn”, with five of those strikes of the ball meeting the murky depths of the Augusta water.
Carding rounds of 81 and 78, the 38-year-old was never even close to making the cut and competing on Saturday and Sunday.
Despite the disappointment, Garcia is only looking ahead.
Speaking to Sky Sports, the Borriol-native said:
I think at the end of the day you’ve got to realise that sometimes it happens, sometimes it goes the wrong way and without doing much wrong it can happen. But you learn from it and you move forward and try to be better.
Obviously I was trying to hit the right shots throughout the process and unfortunately the result didn’t want to come out the way maybe it should have, but it’s one of those things.
With the Valero Texas Open the challenge laying before Garcia this week, he iterated his excitement to get back on the links:
I guess at the end of the day I’m excited to come here (Texas) and keep playing well, like I’ve been playing pretty much all year and see if we can get on a good run.
