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A year after his Carnoustie collapse, the gifted Spaniard refuses to retool his game for Birkdale. Why? We met with a defiant Sergio to put together the pieces of golf's great enigma. Sitting alone on the stage before a roomful of journalists, the press officer for the R&A taps his fingers on the table, fidgeting like a nervous student waiting for the principal. His unenviable task: hosting the loser's press conference at the 2007 British Open. Sergio Garcia walks in, head bowed, jaw clenched. In the last few hours, he has lost his three-shot lead, bogeyed the 72nd hole when par would have won the Claret Jug, and fallen to Padraig Harrington in a play-off. He is irritable. "I know you're bitterly disappointed," the British fellow stutters. Garcia looks up. "No, I'm thrilled," he says. "Happiest man alive." He then wallows in... [read full story]
