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14th May 2016

You’ll have to watch Sergio Garcia’s putting nightmare through your fingers

He's had a shocker

Darragh Murphy

It’s not just you. Professional golfers have those kinds of days too.

Sergio Garcia saw his round three crumble into agonisingly frustrating smithereens when he quadruple bogeyed the par-4 fifth hole at The Players Championship on Saturday afternoon.

Garcia, who won the tournament in 2008, gave himself the most testing of uphill tasks if he is to repeat that success when he needed five stabs at putting home (effectively six but it will go down as a five-putt because the first was from the fringe).

Take a gander at the nightmare as it plays our and fair play to you if you can sit through it without grimacing.

At least it wasn’t up there with Ernie Els’ levels of struggling. Every cloud…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HvN4B9DCQhU