The Colombian Sebastián Muñoz, with an impressive card of 62 strokes (9 under par), leads with authority in the tournament in Orlando (United States), which is held at the Orange County National, the third test of the season on the LIV Golf Circuit .
Sergio García, resultsMuñoz, with his 62, equals the lowest score of 2023 in the LIV golf, tying what was achieved by the Englishman Lee Westwood in the third round in Boston and by the American Brooks Koepka in the first round in Jedah; both tournaments last season.
The Colombian, who leads his immediate pursuer by two strokes, the English Richard Bland, had a spectacular start, to sign a total of one 'eagle', eight 'birdies' and one 'bogey'.
Of the Spaniards, Sergio García signed the field par (71), with an 'eagle', two 'birdies' and four 'bogeys'; David Puig went to 72 (+1) and Eugenio López-Chacarra to 73 (+2).
Sergio Garcia 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.
He is one of the pillars of the European Ryder Cup team, in which he has 6 victories (2002, 2004, 2006, 2012, 2014, 2018) in 9 participations and has set the record of youngest participant in the tournament (in 1999 edition).
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