Sergio Garcia

European Tour CEO apologizes for using term 'colored' in interview

2013-05-23 11:32:00

George O'Grady, the CEO of the European golf tour, apologized Thursday for using the term “colored” during a live television interview about the feud between Tiger Woods and Sergio Garcia. “I deeply regret using an inappropriate word...

Tiger Woods vs. Sergio Garcia: Is there a good guy and a bad guy?

2013-05-22 12:48:00

Writers from around Tribune Co. will try to determine who has taken the role as "good guy" and "bad guy" in the Tiger Woods-Sergio Garcia dispute. Feel free to join the discussion by leaving a comment of your own. Teddy Greenstein, Chicago Tribune The...

Marshals say Tiger Woods was told Sergio Garcia had hit in TPC

2013-05-15 18:08:00

Tiger Woods had been told by a volunteer marshal that Sergio Garcia had indeed played his shot at the second hole during the third round of the Players Championship on Saturday, according to new reports Wednesday. All the fuss about Woods being...

Tiger Woods' comments 'lacked character,' tournament marshal says

2013-05-14 09:22:00

Saturday's dispute between Tiger Woods and Sergio Garcia just got a little more interesting, with a marshal at the Players Championship on Monday basically calling Woods a liar. On Saturday, Woods hit his tee shot into the trees on the par-five second...

Tiger and Sergio, meet Tonya and Nancy

2013-05-14 00:00:00

We had a great development in sports over the weekend. Tiger Woods and Sergio Garcia did for golf what Tonya Harding and Nancy Kerrigan once did for figure skating. Images can change so fast. The PGA Tour is no longer merely a parade of boring...

Tiger Woods holds off Sergio Garcia to win Players Championship

2013-05-12 16:33:00

Tiger Woods overcame a bumpy final round, holding off Sergio Garcia, Jeff Maggert and rookie David Lingmerth to win the Players Championship on Sunday in Ponte Vedra Beach, Fla. Lindsey Vonn, Woods' girlfriend with 59 total World Cup skiing victories, was...

Tiger Woods vs. Sergio Garcia: The war of words and a backswing

2013-05-12 11:06:00

Tiger Woods versus Sergio Garcia: There is nothing better than a knock-down, drag-out fight in golf. And this is a war of words and etiquette rather than fisticuffs on the hockey rink, a benches-clearing brawl in baseball or a shot-for-shot showdown on...

Sergio Garcia leads Tiger Woods by one at Players

2013-05-11 00:00:00

PONTE VEDRA BEACH, Fla. -- Sergio Garcia was only 19 when he first challenged Tiger Woods during the final round of the 1999 PGA Championship. Woods nipped the fist-pumping Spaniard — then affectionately known as El Nino — by a shot for a...

Phil Mickelson opens a two-shot lead at Quail Hollow

2013-05-03 19:05:00

Phil Mickelson, who has struggled mightily at times this year, heads a big-name field with some star power on the leaderboard in the Wells Fargo Championship at Quail Hollow. Mickelson sank a 40-foot birdie putt at No. 9 during a round of five-under-par...

Charley Hoffman takes two-stroke lead at RBC Heritage

2013-04-20 20:20:00

Charley Hoffman's quick start gave him a two-shot lead over U.S. Open champion Webb Simpson after three rounds of the RBC Heritage on Saturday at Hilton Head Island, S.C. Hoffman had four birdies on his first five holes to shoot a bogey-free five-...

Sergio Garcia and Marc Leishman lead, Tiger Woods lurks at Masters

2013-04-12 00:00:00

— During his adventure on the first three holes Thursday, Tiger Woods clanged a hair-raising screamer off the gallery and landed a tee shot on a spectator's beer cup, turning his chase for a green-jacket refitting into a scramble at the start. By...

Sergio Garcia struggles in second round of Masters

2013-04-13 00:00:00

AUGUSTA, Ga. — First-round co-leader Sergio Garcia found agony Friday no matter what pains he took to avoid it. On No. 4, Garcia hemmed and hawed over the tee shot, switched from a four-iron to a three-iron and found sand and another bogey. A snap...

VIRGINIA WATER, ENGLAND - MAY 22: Sergio Garcia of Spain attends a press conference during the Pro-Am round prior to the BMW PGA Championship on the West Course at Wentworth on May 22, 2013 in Virginia Water, England.

2013-05-22 00:00:00

A portrait of Sergio Garcia of Spain ahead of the BMW PGA Championship at Wentworth in Virginia Water, England. (Warren Little/Getty Images)

2013-05-21 00:00:00

Sergio Garcia of Spain plays an approach shot on the 16th hole during the final round of The Players Championship.

2013-05-12 00:00:00