Garcia: I can’t just blame the Irish

It’s easy to imagine Sergio Garcia pondering his Major near-misses and cursing all things Irish.

After all, it was Pádraig Harrington who twice stymied the Spaniard, at the 2007 Open and 2008 PGA Championship, while Rory McIlroy destroyed his dreams of a Claret Jug last month and just for good measure pipped him to the post last Sunday at the WGC-Bridgestone Invitational.

Garcia, however, has no such blindspots and until he was asked about the Irish influence on his career, yesterday at Valhalla, the thought of a conspiracy against him had not crossed his mind.