British Open: Sergio hoping for drier conditions
Sergio Garcia would love to see hard and fast conditions for The Open Championship rather than the holding fairways and greens that have been dictated by heavy rain. But the weather outlook for the rest of the week remains uncertain.
"I would love to see this course playing fast and firm like we played last year in Liverpool. But it doesn't look like it's going to be that way," he said as he prepared for his final practice round after a morning of further rain.
"If we don't get somne wind coming, the scores aregoing to be very low. It's going to be easy to get to the fairways. We're going to be able to stop it quite easily on the greens. It's just a matter of what the weather does. It looks like the most important club this week is probably going to be the umbrella. That's never good news."
Referring back to his first experience of Carnoustie in 1999, when he failed to qualifying with rounds of 89-83 to be 30 over par, he said: "It was a little bit out of hand. Also we had quite bad weather, quite difficult playing conditions so that didn't help the way the course was set up. But this year it's a different course.
"Even though the rough is not too bad this year you still lose a bit of control out of it. You still want to be hitting from the fairways as much as possible. Once you start getting to that guessing game, you know, how much is the ball going to release and everything, it's tougher to get going. And to get to some pins you have to be on the fairway. If they tuck them behind the bunkers you can't get to them from the rough."
He struggled with his form at the recent US Open, but feels his game is picking up in time for tomorrow's assault on the Championship. "It's just a matter of getting some good confidence, getting some good momentum on your side, just get going the right way." He considers himself a good wind player, but is no big fan of rain.
Only one shot behind Tiger Woods going into the final round last year at Hoylake, he dropped back into a tie for fifth place after a 73. "Mainly what happened on Sunday the way the tournament was going, I had almost no chance of winning. I put in an excellent round on Saturday (a 65) and gave myself a chance. It's very difficult in a major, and even more a British Open, to try to shoot 65, 66 to get into a play-off. I had a chance of trying to do something good and hopefully win.
"What happened was I didn't get off to a good start. I missed a couple of short putts early on and kind of put myself a little behind the eight-ball. When you get in that situation and things have to go your way. You get a couple of bad bounces and hit a couple of bunkers and it becomes quite difficult. I'm just going to do the same things, put myself in that position again and keep trying and do my best. That's all I can ask for myself and hopefully it's good enough."
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