The Ryder Cup

[Hwjb]

Originally Posted by GPK

Sergio is the most overrated player in the world....hands down. He is talented, yes, but the PGA Tour and Euro Tour is full of talented guys. All of them are great ball strikers, just like Sergio. He is nothing but a product of the media wanting a young, flashy, arrogant player to promote. It is a helluva lot easier to play when you have 11 other teammates backing you. In regular week to week stroke play tournaments, the kid has not lived up to a 1/4 of the hype surrounding him. Until he develops some kind of heart and grows a set of nuts, he will do nothing more than win a few lower tier tournaments throughout his career.

Kev,

I'm not having that!

I'm sure you know a great deal more about golf than I do (I don't really follow it week in week out), but IMO Garcia is an amazing iron player, who is wonderful around the greens (Ballesteros-esque). Sporadically he can show his brilliance (normally on the first couple of days of a major, or in the Ryder Cup), and it is his putting which consistently lets him down. I don't think that he's a choker per se (unlike the likes of Clark, Harrington, Monty and poss Howell), but more that he seems to thrive playing amongst a team. Monty has proven himself Europe's best player over the last dozen years or so, but he seems only able to show his very best when the weight of expectation is off, or he feels the comfort of a team around him. I wonder whether Sergio will prove similar.