Am I the only one out here that mutes the TV right before Sergio swings...I can't stand listening to him yell at every shot. Whether it is 8 feet or in the bunker he yells loudly at every swing. Very annoying! Just my two cents.

well when you're in contention to win a big tourney maybe your two cents will be worth more than I don't know lets say two cents, so you're upset that someone is passionate about winning a tourney that in all honestly is meaningless in the golf world.

agree with the reply above. his 25 regrips back in the day were far more annoying. the kid is just an annoying person; but it's great to see him contending every week, the sport is better with him involved.

He's Spanish the southern europeans tend to be a little more vocal and passionate about things. I don't mean this as a bad thing, or i don't want to insult anyone. I think most of em will tell you this is true.
It doesn't bother me, i notice it from time to time, but it doesn't really bother me.

I've even heard myself doing quite often when i'm chasing the lead :lol;

Love Sergio! Regrips, talking to his ball and all. Most of all his swing.. See you in the right forum

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BLnv6F5ImV4&fmt=18

I dont mind him yelling at his shots, i just cant stand his excuses after he loses. Just to name a couple:

Bethpage Black: "the course was too wet. if tiger was out there they would have stopped play."

Carnoustie: "they took too long to rake the bunker. im playing against more than just the guys in the field."

Lets be real here, sergio is playing against his putter. If he could learn to duplicate a proper putting stroke, he would win plenty of majors, the rest of his came is obviously good enough.

Maybe the US players should get more passionate so we dont get our a$$ handed to us in the Ryder Cup.

Wow. A quote from 2002 and one from 2007 after he just lost The Open by a hair.

Can't you do a bit better than those with the Sergio-hating?

If you are not talking to the ball, or in this case screaming you arent golfing. jk

good call, thats just what i thought when i read that post. the two things sergio has really done well with in 2008 (putting and crying) this guy isnt giving him credit for.

give him some love!

i have lambasted sergio in this forum before, but far be it for me to ever be upset with a player for caring. I like his passion, and i like his fire. These are the things he needs to get back to being an elite level player.

Being excited to play golf is a good thing, and I am occasionally guilty of it myself.

I love it.

The worse thing for golf is the boring, quiet players like a Goosen or Love. No personality, no excitement.

Outside of actually winning, how is he any different the beloved St. Tiger? I mean he yells and cusses and throws clubs like the rest of us.

Get your facts right !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Stat's taken from the Barcley's

PUTTS PER ROUND 30 27 25 28 27.5 T2
PUTTS PER GIR 1.786 1.538 1.400 1.727 1.625 1

I think you're being a little dishonest. If you cherry pick the top 5 guys from a specific tourney, they're most likely all going to be hot with the putter for the week... that's why they're in the top 5.

But Sergio is T142 in putting/gir on the PGA tour this year. Fact of the matter is he doesn't make the big putts.

BTW, I'm not a Sergio hater! I was rooting for him at the PGA!

Lol, i know overall his putting might not be up there with the best of them, however when he "loses" a tournament it always seems as it's putting to blame, just trying to make a point that it wasn't so this week,

No offence inteneded

I don't think it is annoying because I do the same thing to my ball, even more with my playing partners' shots. I like his passion and his willingness to be open and vocal with the golf world watching. I don't like or dislike Sergio but I do wish he would be in contention more often than he has been the past 5 years.

I find it great to have someone play passionate golf.Not everyone have to be robots who dont show any color.

And how he handled himself when Vijay made the long putt on the first sudden death hole was awesome, he acted like someone playing a friendly 18 hole match against a friend, not like one playing for a win in the Barclays.

Go Sergio!

I really enjoyed Sergio at the Barclay's.

His attitude seemed much more "glass half-full" to me.

And his fist-pump & smiling reaction to Vijay making his putt to get intocontinue (thanks, clg ) the playoff was classic and very sporting of him.

Not normally a Sergio fan, but over the last couple months I am becoming one. He plays with passion, fire, and you can tell he loves the game. He has had bad media moments in the past (who hasn't?) but he seems to have matured.

IMO he has become a class act, and is enormously fun to watch.

Agreed. (The putt I believe you are talking about was to continue the playoff)

That fist pump and pointing to Faldo when he made his putt and his disbelief later and High five to VJ when VJ made his putt were truly priceless moments. I also loved it when Sergio chewed out his Caddie for giving him incorrect wind info twice !!!!!! I have watched him live several times and he is always a character and full of passion (and the accompanying dumb moments). As an American I will have to start to find a way to hate him in the next few weeks. It will be damn hard if he keeps up this play.

hey now im american and sergio is one of my favorite players... lol...

sergio has to be the player of the year who hasn't won multiple times! honestly this is his best year in many years !!


think we all do something that is annoying to one another on the course.. so let it go cause he is the professional and we arent!

i know he hasnt really gone anywhere but you could make the case that he's come-back POY... i mean stricker got it 2 yrs straight so i think Sergio is well within the bounderies...

I think all the guys should look alike, dress alike, behave the same and generally behave like robots.


Lets be 'good guys', we are all in this together, lets get on...



I remember when Americans like the tough man gunslinger approach, the likes of John Wayne portrayed this in his westerns.

Now all we have a 'team sports', we are 'all one', 'team work' is key.


At least Sergio has some life/soul in there somewhere, its not too many peoples liking but its better than another Scott Verplank or any of the other robots.

I can't stand Sergio.
GO! GO! GO! GO! SIT! SIT! SIT! GO!
Then when the ball ends up three feet from the cup instead of holing out from the fairway he claims it is his bad luck or that the world is conspiring against him.

I also loved Sergio's reaction and interation with Vijay when they both made their putts. That was great.

I have never been either a Vijay fan nor a Sergio fan (used to love Sergio at the beginning but prior to this year, he was being such an a** all the time, I lost all love for him) but those two on that green were awesome. It showed them BOTH as fun-loving guys thoroughly enjoying the competition and friendship. I love seeing the highlights over and over - especially when Sergio pushes Vijay jokingly in the chest after the putt.

I wish more tour players reacted this way to things. Puts way more fun into watching and I am sure into playing for them. However, different people have different personalities and you do not want everyone to be the same, one way or the other. This mixture is what is fun and I was really glad to see this play out the way it did.

one of the best finish on 18 was Tiger v Ernie at The Mercedes..both eagled the 18th after remarkable 3 woods and 2 iron shots in into the Kapalua 18th green. Tiger made eagle, then Ernie..the respect the showed each other after that was some of the best classmanships I have ever seen..
VJ and Sergio, did good too

At the end of the day he's extremely exciting to watch. I've been to many tournaments and I have never seen ANYONE trap a ball or hit a long iron better. Good God. Call him vocal, colorful, arrogant, tempered, spirited, absent minded, collapsable, indestructable...doesn't matter. He is a great player.

He could've won 4-5 times this year but that's golf...so could 20 other guys. One day he'll finish the job very well and very often.

You gotta be kidding me, for Sergio to say hes playing against more guys than the field is just ridiculous. I like Sergio but cmon thats something you just dont say...period. Thats a flat out excuse for losing, he makes that par putt hes the happiest guy on the planet. Not to mention 2 seconds later hes whining about the shot that hit the pin in the playoff. I will say though it looks like hes starting to mature...did a little better after the 08 PGA. Im starting to pull for him to win because hes exciting to watch.

Got Sergio's autograph on Friday at Barclays while he was on the phone. Never been a Sergio fun before, but starting to like him. He seems nice guy to sign all those autograph for the kids....

What is the problem of whining when he hit the pin ? As far as i know, hadnt it hit the pin, the ball would probably have spun back quite nicely instead of leaving it long as it did.

I gotta think professionals dont care about "cool" stuff like hitting a pin, they care about being closest to the hole after every shot. Ofcourse, maybe its just me

My take is that the problem with whining after hitting the pin is just a symptom of his bad play. He whines when he has to play in the rain in 2002 at bethpage. He whines that he is playing against more than the field. He whines that he is among the best ball strikers alive, but cant catch a break (apparently the putter strikes the ball too). he whines that he is playing against some ghost that doesnt want him to win. he whines when he hits the pin, and doesnt get a favorable bounce. When you refuse to properly shake the winner's hand because you just had a tournament ripped out of your grasp people notice (had he shaken paddy's hand the way he shook Vijays on sunday.....he could have made himself look a lot better).

so you say the pros only care about who is closest to the pin after every shot. I say hitting good shots that end up bad is part of golf, and if you want to be a pro in this game at its absolute zenith....learn to deal with the fact that not all well struck golf shots go where they are supposed to go. And just one more thought on your premise....most pros could care less if they are further from the hole after their approach...they really only care what they score on the hole....

Hey, its fine to whine now and then, but when you whine after every single miscue, and when you whine every single time you dont win then people get tired of the whining.

SERGIO IS A FLAT OUT a**!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


"I cant putt so I decided to SPIT in the cup"

So he says things like it is, that ofcourse wont ride with everyone, but in my case i cannot be bothered. I would rather listen to straight talkers than those who are afraid to make a headline and pack everything into 15 layers of safetytalk.

About the Open in 2007, think how much this means to Sergio, with the echo of best player never to have won a major hanging over him for years. Ofcourse it will have a emotional impact when you are labeled that in every major you enter and get as close as you can without getting the cigar.

I know with myself that i can be in a bottomless pit of agony after a round now and then, and just wants to leave the course as quickly as possible, offering only the needed amount of after-round thanks and smiles. And i am a hacker with a 17hpc.

And then you have these guys going for majors wich is ALITTLE more sougth after than a regular weekendy round, and you get as close as you possibly can, just to have the victory taken from you, you dont think that can do something with your emotions ?

Golfers at any level still have a personality that differs, its as easy as that. And any amount of sportpsychology cant change that.

As mentioned earlier, im glad not everyone are smiling robots out there.

Well, he doesn't do it for all his shots so its still ok and bearable.

Dottie Pepper was worse. She talks and reprimands her ball like its a 3 yr old kid.

Nothing wrong with a bit of passion on the course.
The game needs more of it,not less.

What about when he spat in the cup during play (completely unacceptable, and one of the worst things ever done on tour), or deliberately gave his partner in a pro am (the ceo of the tournament sponsors) the wrong yardage into every green for a laugh. There are lots of examples of his spoiled antics. Used to love what he brought to the tour- not anymore.

Oh, wait ... for a minute I thought this forum was going to show me the way to Vocal.

Apparently it is for a bunch of people who want bash Sergio. Please let me pile on..... GOSH DARN THAT SERGIO, if he only knew the difference between prepositions and adverbs, he'd be a much better golfer!

One of the worst things ever done on Tour.

Look, mate, this thread is like so many others here, an excuse for Sergio-haters to come out and repeat the same tired old crap time and time again.

He spat in the cup. OK. News Flash - that has been mentioned here about a million times. I know, and he was wrong to do it, but its over now. Get over it.

I wonder if there's something in the water in Spain. Something sour.

First we had Sergio blaming all sorts of external forces for his failure at Carnoustie last year. Then we had his thoroughly ungracious comments after the PGA, in which he offered scant (in my opinion) praise to Harrington while fixating on how, basically, the gods screwed him again.

I figured this was just a "Sergio" thing, until I saw how the Spanish basketball team reacted to losing to the U.S. in Beijing. Like Sergio, they blamed external forces (the refs) for their failure, while also offering almost zero praise to the actual winners. You know, the guys with the gold.

So I do wonder. Is losing badly a national pathology in Spain?

There are plenty of sore losers here ( U.S. ) and all around the world.

Seve and Sergio were/are both "haunted" by "demons".....may be a Spanish thing?

Many of golf's greatest players, guys we all love, laid the blame for their poor shots on someone else. Caddies usually get the brunt of it. Fans/staff are often castigated. Playing partners are too slow or too noisy. On and on.

I think sports psychologists have said this behavior, this denial is actually a common mark of a champion. I don't know.

I guess if it works....

Dont worry, Im over it- just responding to your "Wow. A quote from 2002 and one from 2007 after he just lost The Open by a hair. " Defend him/ bash him- each to their own. If this thread is so frustrating and repetative to you, with all us "sergio haters" on it, perhaps you should move on to a more suitable thread for you tastes- perhaps, "stop bashing sergio- he's just a little lad"

I never think of myself as a "sergio hater". Point of fact I like him a lot, and perhaps that's why I tend to lose patience with him. Although I will admit to the fact that I like Phil more, and almost never lose patience with him. so perhaps i am drinking the so called "haterade", but i dont think seeing someone's professional shortcomings is necessarily a bad thing. the man is a public figure who spends a lot of time on display. If you are allowed to appreciate his attitude why am I wrong for being annoyed by it.

Yah, it is a nice thing to have someone speak the truth after a heartbreaking loss. I also love his passion. I loved Sergio's presser after the open in '07. He actually said he has to play against more than the field. For those of you who think this is some sort of defense mechanism a'la rotella you couldnt be more wrong. Rotella is all about positive thoughts, not ghosts, and not excuses. He is a colorful press conference guy though, and for that i will give him credit. Seems to me though that tiger has never blamed anyone for a loss, and that when faced with a press conference after a losing bid he always compliments the winner.

Sergio is obviously a little snake bit, reminds me a bit of Mr. Norman on the course. Plays great, and then at the last second something happens that is beyond his control and he loses. I can see how that would be frustrating. Here is the rub though. When mr. norman was beaten, no matter how upset he got he was gracious in defeat. Even when he imploded, he stood and answered questions, and lets face it april of 96 couldnt have been a pleasant experience for mr norman, but even he didnt blame mystical outside forces for his implosion.

I can see how having Harrington sneak two coveted majors IN A ROW out from underneath you could make you (in paul casey's words) "properly hate" said mr. harrington. Still should have looked him in the eye on the green, and properly congratulated him on a GREAT up and down. Sure he was crushed, but sportsmanship is sportsmanship.

Sergio is young, and perhaps he will find his own true north. I hope he does, but until he does I will continue to criticize him for being a poor sportsman. Which he most certainly has shown himself to be, on more than one occasion. Especially when we can get a glimpse (like we did sunday in the playoff v vijay) of what sergio can really be.

I look forward to watching him compete in the ryder cup. I just wish he could get paired in the 4-ball with Harrington. Just for my own selfish viewing pleasure (whoops....maybe i do hate a bit)

His whining, tirades, poor sportsmanship and antics are in general tired. Having said that, I did think that he showed significant improvement at The Barclays not only in putting but also in sportsmanship. I will just not be able to root for anyone who spits in the cup. Heck of a player but seems to have a bit too much adolescent idiocy for my taste.

Not frustrating or repetative, nor even repetitive. Almost amusing to see someone ring the bell marked 'Sergio', and no matter what the subject is, out comes all the tired old cliches. Something new or interesting would be a pleasant surprise.

if i was as good as him or eny guy on tour i know i would shout and rave on the course every week!
doin summet u luv every day!
and you guys think u have the right to down him for entertaining you!

now thts bad crack!

HEs awesomeee!

Yea it probably is just you because it was a 230 yard shot that he hit with a long iron. It hit the pin extremely hard and just went off the left edge of the green. It would have just as easily went off the back had it missed the flag stick and left him a similar chip/putt. Maybe try watching the tournament before making an idiotic statement. So as far as you know is different because in this case you really dont.