A short shocking blow cost Sergio Garcia a place in the open championship.
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Sergio Garcia came to Macau this weekend looking Play his way to his “favorite” major. After all, a three-legged bird kick stood between Garcia and a place in the 153rd open championship in Royal Portrush.
But golf is a brutal sport. Garcia lost the short put and left the international event of the Asian series Macau with a fourth place end and not much more.
While Garcia failed to qualify to open through a top three in Macau, his Livit Carlos Ortiz (first) friends, Patrick Reed (second) and Jason Kokrak (third) All hit their ticket to Portrush. Garcia’s three -legged bird point in the last would have made him end up with a coconut and win the last place in Open through a Countback system based on his world ranking points. Garcia is currently 513 in the world, while Kokrak is 775 due to the inability of LIV to earn official Golf ranking points in the world in Liv Events.
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For Ortiz, the victory gives him his second career start in the oldest golf. Its only previous beginning came in 2021.
Ortiz and Reed began the first day tied, but Ortiz quickly distanced themselves from the early birds to one and three. An eagle in Par-5 12 gave him more breathing rooms, and he went down to a three-shot victory.
“Unfortunately, I was unable to win,” said Reed, who will play in his 10th open, after the round. “But you know, at any time you can play without Bogey on Sundays, always positive. Go and finish second, get a place in the open, yes, it means a lot.”
Twenty Livi players link him to Macau this week seeking to take advantage of an event that is part of the R&A open qualification series. Since LIV has limited routes in major championships due to their world ranking issue, this event served as a way to reach Royal Portrush without having to rely on local qualification or exclude newly created Liv rankings.
In February, R&A revealed a new exception This will be given to the highest player in the individual Liv ranking which is not qualified differently after the Dallas League event in late June. Garcia, who won Liv Hong Kong two weeks ago, is currently third in the standings behind Joaquin Niemann and Jon Rahm, both have already qualified to open.
The 2017 Masters Champion is still in a good place to win his way in the open and open through this new exclusion, but he will have to continue to play good Golf in Liv to hold a number of other non -excluded players who are shortly after him.
