Garcia out of the rough and ready to join major league

SERGIO Garcia bristled here last night when it was put to him that he was now the best player in golf never to have won a major championship.

For all the merit of Europe’s superb victory in the Ryder Cup, the game here is deficient in that Scot Paul Lawrie remains the last European to capture a major championship, and that was back in 1999 at Carnoustie.

Garcia was quick to point out that he was “still only 24 and, touch wood, would have many, many chances to rectify the situation”.