Sergio García and the Chilean Joaquín Niemann will be the captains of the ‘Fireballs’ and ‘Torque’ teams of the LIV golf circuit, an alternative to the DP World Tour and American, which in its second edition will begin this weekend in the Mexican course of El Camaleón .
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Along with Sergio García will be the Mexicans Abraham Ancer and Carlos Ortiz and the Spanish Eugenio Chacarra; and with Niemann will be his compatriot Mito Pereira, the Colombian Sebastián Muñoz and the Spanish David Puig.
The Australian Cameron Smith will lead the ‘Ripper’, which will also include Marc Leishman, Matt Jones and Jed Morgan; the ‘Aces’ will feature Dustin Johnson, Patrick Reed, Peter Uihlein and Pat Perez; Phil Mickelson will command the ‘Hyflyers’, which will include Cameron Tringale, James Piot and Brendan Steele; in the ‘Majesticks’ next to Henrik Stenson will be Ian Poulter, Lee Westwood and Sam Horsfield; and in Bryson Dechambeau’s ‘Crushers’ will play Paul Casey, Charles Howell III and Anirban Lahiri up to a total of twelve teams.
In this circuit, which consists of fourteen tournaments, you compete individually and by teams. He began playing golf at the age of 3 at the “Club de Campo del Mediterráneo”, where his father Victor was a teacher. At 12 he was already champion of his club, four years later he became the youngest player to pass the cut in an event of the European Tour, in the 1995 Turespaña Open Mediterranea.
This record was broken by amateur Jason Hark in the UBS Hong Kong Open . In the same year Garcìa becomes the youngest player to win the European Amateur Championship. In his amateur career he won everything: from the Topolino World Junior Championship (1994), to the European championship (1995), to the British Amateur (1998).
He turned pro in 1999 after winning the best amateur title at the Augusta Masters, reaching a hcp of +5.4 and an official match-play average of 32 wins and only one loss. In his first year as a pro, he immediately stood out with a spectacular head-to-head with Tiger Woods at the 1999 PGA Championship, where he performed his most famous shot: an intentional slice from behind a tree with the ball going into the green and García running and jumping to see it land. García has always been one of the strongest tee-to-green players, with a very distinctive swing.
