The resurgence of Sergio García: maturity in the game and the memory of two uncles who died from coronavirus

• Garcia wins three years later

Sergio García

again clenched his fist and shouted victory.

It was last Sunday at the

, the 36th title of his professional career, and the eleventh on the PGA circuit, which allowed him to win a prize money of more than a million euros.

A new resurgence of a golfer always obliged to the exam, for more than 20 years.

The hot summer of 1999 moved

of Ricky Martin

into the chords of

, when a young 19-year-old golfer claimed his space in the newspapers.

The then known as El Niño ran down the fairway of hole 16 of

after hitting the very roots of a log, describing an unlikely curve with his ball.

Madness broke out.

Sergio García even dared to challenge his rival in that

,

.

In the end, the victory fell on the American side, but we knew that a star was born capable of marking an era in golf, and in Spanish sport.

The years brought victories and also disagreements.

The first Major was resisting.

The most painful was

.

García came out on the final day with three strokes of advantage, but the Irish

snatched the claret jug cruelly.

The one from Castellón continued to collect victories on the regular circuits in Europe, the United States, Asia ... but it didn't seem enough.

The press criticized and sometimes the attitude of the Borriol golfer did not contribute to the praise, on and off the field.

In 2010 he made a hint of withdrawal.

The ups and downs of the best player in the history of the

seemed to vanish on April 10, 2017. At last Sergio won the Augusta Masters, and after 18 years of career came his first Grand Slam.

But the inertia of the expected emergence of the green jacket only reported three victories in the following three years (two of them in Valderrama and one in Holland).

In the shadow of Rahm

All this time coincided with the explosion of the phenomenon

.

Sergio became for the first time almost an anonymous player, after pulling the Spanish golf peloton for almost 20 years, the reference.

In the last weeks of invisibility, he quietly competed fighting with his

, but something was changing, only he and those close to him were aware of this metamorphosis.

So, in this strange season, Sergio decided to include last week's tournament on his calendar for the first time.

"I saw the

on TV last year and I liked the course," he commented, after receiving the good reviews of the tournament from the Colombian golfer

, winner in 2019.

Four days after his golf debut in Mississippi, Sergio Garcia was lifting a trophy, a victory in the United States three years later.

Last Sunday the world discovered the new Sergio García.

"For a long time I have been working very hard, things did not quite work out, but I knew it was close," he said.

"This week I have had better feelings than even when I won the Masters",

confession

is nothing more than the endorsement of what was seen on the field on Sunday.

A focused and patient Sergio, enough ingredients to overflow with the greatest long-game talent that still exists in golf.

To show his second shot with wood five on the 14th hole, which earned him an eagle and tied for the lead.

And, above all, the ability to win the tournament in the 18th minute. The Spanish golfer needed a birdie and he started it off the course with insulting confidence, a drivable start and an anthological eight iron half a meter from the hole in one of the most complicated , in one of the moments of most pressure.

To finish, the

final

with eyes closed, like all week.

"You will continue to see me kick like this for a while," he warned.

Sergio has returned, with the maturity of 40, of a father with two children, of a son who suffers for not seeing his family in Spain and with the pain of having lost two carnal uncles in the

.

Golf welcomes you again.

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