{"id":723057,"date":"2026-04-12T16:13:13","date_gmt":"2026-04-12T16:13:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/723057\/"},"modified":"2026-04-12T16:13:13","modified_gmt":"2026-04-12T16:13:13","slug":"masters-2026-sergio-garcia-gets-warning-after-going-nuclear-on-tee-box-breaking-driver-and-ending-up-carrying-jon-rahms-bag","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/723057\/","title":{"rendered":"Masters 2026: Sergio Garcia gets warning after going nuclear on tee box, breaking driver and ending up carrying Jon Rahm’s bag"},"content":{"rendered":"

AUGUSTA, Ga. \u2014 How\u2019s that for a headline. And it\u2019s all true.<\/p>\n

Paired with fellow countryman Jon Rahm on Sunday at the Masters, Garcia \u2014 the 2017 champion \u2014 pushed his tee shot at No. 2 off to the right. What followed reportedly got him a code of conduct warning from Augusta National\u2019s chairman of the competition committee, Geoff Yang<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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In the course of just a few seconds, Garcia slammed his club into the tee box, then took a whack at a cooler that snapped off the head of his driver. Then, for some reason, he picked up Rahm\u2019s bag and carried it down the second fairway.<\/p>\n

As mentioned, the green jackets at Augusta National don\u2019t take kindly to such actions. During Round 1, Robert MacIntyre flipped the bird after hitting a ball in the water at 15<\/a>. That reportedly earned him a talking to after his round.<\/p>\n

While a lewd gesture certainly doesn\u2019t fit into Augusta decorum, damaging a tee box is inarguably a more egregious offense, which is why Garcia, who was +6 for the tournament at the time, got a talking to before he teed off at No 4.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"AUGUSTA, Ga. \u2014 How\u2019s that for a headline. And it\u2019s all true. Paired with fellow countryman Jon Rahm…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":723058,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[47],"tags":[30494,6123,1430,18828,23535,62,170291,299807,67,132,68],"class_list":["post-723057","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-golf","tag-augusta-national","tag-driver","tag-golf","tag-jon-rahm","tag-sergio-garcia","tag-sports","tag-tee","tag-tee-box","tag-united-states","tag-unitedstates","tag-us"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116392624671947860","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/723057","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=723057"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/723057\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/723058"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=723057"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=723057"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=723057"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}