The Spaniard Sergio García assured this Sunday, after winning for the fourth time in his entire career at Valderrama, that he does not know if he is the “king” or not. But he thinks it’s “close enough” and he’ll have to “talk” to his wife about buying a home in the areaClose to Cadiz golf course.
“I don’t know if I’m the ‘fucking king,’ but I’m pretty close to it. We have achieved a lot of good things here and we will never forget it. I might have to talk to my wife, but we will have to buy a house here. There comes a time when we can’t say goodbye to this place and we have to do something right here,” he explained. Castellón players at the press conference after their victory.
For Garcia, It was “one of those laps” in which he found himself “very comfortable, very confident and knowing what he had to do.” Because “he saw things clearly”, he believed in himself and he had a lot of support from his wife, this Saturday and this Sunday morning, which helped him “believe” that he could overcome the seven blows that separated him from himself. The Indian Anirban Lahiri came back after those blows to beat him in the tiebreaker.
Sergio celebrates his first win at Valderrama / EFE
“I thought, ‘Let’s see if we can get five under par and see what happens.’ All of a sudden I hit a back nine and I’m -5.. And I thought: ‘Okay, I have to set another target.’ At that moment, he told me ‘three more birdies to finish at -8′”, commented the Spaniard, who stressed that after getting -6 on hole number eleven he had “good birdie opportunities” on the fifteenth and seventeenth but he could not do it.’ Teeing the holes out.
I am happy with the way you fight
“Then I saw Lahiri’s -7 and I thought: ‘I have to make some birdies in the last three,” But luckily it wasn’t necessary,” stressed Garcia, who was “very happy with the way he fought” and for the playoff.
Similarly, he said that “it’s always difficult to get Valderrama”, but “he was very assured, striking the ball very well”. And he felt “pretty good” in the tiebreaker, which saw him lift LIV Andalusia.
“I didn’t know I had won even 25 years after my first win. When asked about that milestone in his career, he stressed, “They are beautiful data that tell you two things, luckily I had a great career and you are getting older.”
Struggling to give the maximum
However, he added that “it’s good to see” that at 44 he continues to “fight and struggle, try to do my best”. And he further said, when asked how he saw Lahiri’s decision that led to the tiebreaker, he only heard “shouting” but since he was in the van on the way to the clubhouse, he did not know what the reason was.
Sergio celebrates victory with his teammates / EFE
“In the playoff I was confident, I already had a chance on the first hole, but I had a good start on the second hole, A good second shot and although the putt was quite complicated, I had some relief in the last shot,” García stressed.
Finally he explained it too Who chose Mexican Abraham Ancer and Spanish David Puig to play in the ‘playoffs’ by teams because “Abraham is life insurance” and because although the doubt was between Puig and Madrid’s Eugenio López-Chacarra, he leaned toward the Catalan because “he had performed a little better.” García joked, “It felt right to me and in the end it was the right decision.”
