Winner: Sergio Garcia
Around the wider world of golf: Matt Kuchar and Harris English won the Franklin Templeton Shootout; Stewart and Connor Cink won the PNC Father/Son Challenge on their first try, posting 9 straight 3s on the back 9 to do it; Dawie van der Walt won the weather-shortened the Nelson Mandela Championship on the ET; and the various tour qualifying tournaments are still going on.
It seems that love has the same opinion with Sergio Garcia.
You may additionally keep in mind that Sergio and Greg Norman's daughter have been an object a while lower back. That courting, like so many romances, in the end got here to an stop and Sergio made no mystery that it changed into painful. Many humans within the golf network consider that Sergio's recent struggles have as a minimum a part of their root in that breakup.
And then Sergio showed up in Thailand this week with a different caddie -- his new girlfriend Katharina Boehm. Golfweek (from whose article the next photo came from -- the link's at the end of this post) began their wrap-up with the simple statement, "Maybe she is the spark he was looking for."
After Saturday's round GolfTalkCentral contributor Will Gray wrote:
Earlier this week, some may additionally have puzzled the selection by way of Sergio Garcia to have his girlfriend, Katharina Boehm, caddie for him at the Thailand Golf Championship.
After a 2d consecutive 7-beneath sixty five gave the Spaniard a four-shot lead heading into the final spherical, those doubts have in large part been silenced.
"It's great to have her around, forget about having her on the bag this week," said Garcia, who sits at 18-under 198 after three rounds. "Just a very positive person, a lot of good energy, that's what I love about her, and it's great to be able to go through this with her." Is everybody making too much out of this? I don't think so.
Life on Tour -- especially life in the limelight brought via heavy expectancies -- can take its toll on every person, regardless of how robust they're. And if you've listened to any of his interviews, you realize that Sergio is by no means happy with his game. To have a person round who can get him to loosen up a piece simply would possibly get him inside the proper frame of thoughts to win more frequently.
Just as he did this week. Henrik Stenson put a few severe pressure on Sergio throughout that very last spherical, and but Sergio in no way flinched. In fact, he smiled and laughed with the crowd this entire week... And paused to give his caddie a quick kiss after specifically excellent shots.
I for one hope Katharina plans to be a steady presence in Sergio's life any further. Especially at the majors.
In the interim, Sergio will should be glad with a Limerick Summary. Perhaps my assessment is getting a chunk beforehand of factors, however I assume this will be a reasonable expectation:
When gal Katharina performs caddie
Then Sergio?S satisfied, now not crabby.
If Kathy is this good
For him, maybe they should
Just “Thai” the knot—you know, get married. The top photo came from Google's AFP sports news stream. The bottom photo came from the golfweek.com site.
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