The Open: Sergio Garcia snaps driver throughout last spherical

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Sergio Garcia had a troublesome last spherical on the Open Championship on Sunday.

He shot a last spherical 68 and completed tied for Thirty fourth with Aaron Rai, Jon Rahm, Justin Thomas, Christiaan Bezuidenhout and Lee Westwood. He was 3-under for the match. Nevertheless, Garcia did one thing these different golfers seemingly didn’t do – end his spherical and not using a driver.

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Sergio Garcia of Spain performs his tee shot on the ninth gap throughout the second spherical of the British Open golf championship on the Royal Portrush Golf Membership, Northern Eire, on Friday, July 18, 2025. (AP Photograph/Francisco Seco)

The LIV Golf star snapped his driver on the second gap of his spherical and completed with out it. He nonetheless managed to birdie the opening on his technique to the 68. He had 5 birdies on the day to pair alongside together with his two bogeys. Gamers are barred from changing their golf equipment in the midst of the spherical.

He opened up about breaking the membership after the spherical.

"To be completely sincere, I didn’t really feel like I did that a lot on the 2nd tee," he mentioned, via Golf.com . "Clearly, I didn’t hit a superb drive, and I type of — I didn’t smack it straight down. I type of like swiped it again. I’ve accomplished that fifty occasions, and I’ve by no means damaged a membership. The shaft simply snapped in half, and I used to be stunned. I wasn’t making an attempt to interrupt it, and I used to be really stunned once I noticed that — as a result of often, if it breaks, it breaks by the neck, and it broke in the midst of the shaft.

Sergio Garcia of Spain reacts after lacking a putt on the eighth inexperienced throughout the second spherical of the British Open golf championship on the Royal Portrush Golf Membership, Northern Eire, on Friday, July 18, 2025. (AP Photograph/Francisco Seco)

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"I don’t know, possibly the shaft had somewhat factor there as a result of I didn’t really feel like with what I did it ought to have damaged, however that’s what it was, after which I bought some good follow once I threw it."

Garcia’s Thirty fourth-place end was the perfect of the 12 months within the main tournaments.

Sergio Garcia of Spain performs his tee shot on the eleventh gap throughout a follow spherical for the British Open golf championship on the Royal Portrush Golf Membership, Northern Eire, on Wednesday, July 16, 2025. (AP Photograph/Jon Tremendous)