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The eternal debate about Sergio García in Spain

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A phrase that’s been continually repeated across the social networks (and in a some impromptu social gatherings in the golf world) when Sergio García doesn’t come home with win: “sometimes its hard to defend him”. Just yesterday, without going any further.

The question I always ask myself is: ¿defend him against who? ¿Against what? I understand it’s difficult to defend a politician who is in a rut or a criminal family member, but an athlete who isn’t able to taste the sweetness of success as often as you or I would like…

I try to see it from a different angle, perhaps as an emotional defense mechanism built up piece by piece in the midst of frustration: I really take the victories of our golfers to heart (Spanish athletes, in general) and not so much the losses, the blunders and the disappointments. Much more so when we’re talking golf. In fact, I wouldn’t understand how it could be necessary for anyone to have to defend Sergio, even if he never went on to make one single cut. I insist: defend him against what? The supposed disgrace of defeat?

It’s more than understood, said and written, at least on Tengolf: García probably needs to celebrate his victories more often than other big golfers to get the upper hand once in a while (keep in mind the ‘once in a while’: he’s won nineteen times in the big tours, on the brink of another six or seven professional victories and a good handful of memorable performances in the Ryder Cup). And so? What’s the problem? Where is the sin that’s so difficult to be forgiven? What I see is that this golfer, despite everything, continues without fault and who, little by little, continues to build up a more than dignified list of wins.