Sergio Garcia 'terrible shot' at PGA Championship with shocking claims

Sergio Garcia started his 2025 LIV golf season with sixth in Riyadh before finishing 18th in Melbourne. In his third game, Garcia made a three-pointer behind the 63-shot in the final round.

After the victory, Garcia, the ever-held leader of the European Ryder Cup team, was asked whether he hopes that European captain Luke Donald will remain consistent with Garcia's form in 2025.

“I think he’s watching,” Garcia said. “We kept in touch, so I knew he was paying attention. The only thing I could do was keep playing well golf and I just wanted to try to help the European team like I was every time I was a member of that team and hopefully he thought I was enough.”

Donald said in October that he had “some chats” with Garcia discussing the possibility of a return to the Spanish Ryder Cup, but any road back would need to start with Garcia's rejoining the DP World Tour. Garcia did this a month later after paying back the fine he played for Liv Golf. The wheels are formally moving.

Earlier this week at the PGA Championship, Donald did not speak specifically to Garcia's chances of earning one of Donald's picks (there is, of course, far still too much golf to be played for that kind of speculation), but the European skipper did say that, given the raucous environment that players will encounter at Bethpage Black in September, he will “give a little bit more importance to experience, people who have been able to handle those big moments under the most review, those who can step up their efforts have a chance to win or win a major championship. ”

Advantages, Sergio? Maybe.

After Hong Kong, Garcia put another gap in the tough Trump Doral setup in Liv’s Miami event, finishing third. After the second round of the week, a reporter walked away to ask Garcia if she felt she was playing the best golf ball of her career. “Obviously, I'm very comfortable with the way I've played over the past year and a half,” Garcia said. “But I still think 2008 was my best year, just like I feel in the game.”

But then stumbling: 72-76 weeks in the Masters, missed it. Two weeks later, at the Mexico City event in Lef, there was more chaos: Garcia was in No. 50, behind only four points, followed by South Korea's Lef's T42.

This brings us to this week's PGA Championship, which was played in 1999 in Medinah, where a 19-year-old Garcia Scissor played his own efforts. But this week at Quail Hollow, Garcia started on Thursday with 75 75 times and had not produced such fireworks. Garcia bounced back with 68 in the second round before returning 79 times in the third round, including a pair of arms. He was parading the first 15 holes Sunday morning, making only six birdies on two bogeys, but then evacuated 16 times, where he splashed on his way to the double bogey. He finished the game with a low 2 and 7 points with 69.

Afterward, Garcia was asked about any positivity he could take away from his performance.

He said: “Not many.

As for his Ryder Cup chance? Garcia didn't add sugar to them.

“Even if Luke gives me a draft pick now, I'll tell him, and tell him, too,” he said. “Obviously, I need to get better. I need to get more positions before the Masters. You know, just show yourself and show everyone that I'm solid in my game, it can help the European team. It's simple.”

Garcia's benefits: He still has time to correct the ship, including possibly two major starts. Cons: He will need to enter the last two majors of the season, namely the U.S. Open at Oakmont and the Open Championship at Real Patrush. If Garcia is not qualified, it will be more difficult for Donald to evaluate his own form.

Garcia is still hopeful.

“It will take two or three months until the team is finally sure,” he said. “I will have time to gain some confidence and improve in my game.”