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Garcia not carried away

Garcia not carried away

11/12/2010 04:42:51 AM

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While delighted with the short-term benefits of Friday's spectacular 65 at Victoria Golf Club, Spaniard Sergio Garcia isn't convinced the round will have any long-term significance.

From a career high of No.2 just over two years ago Garcia has slipped 68 places on the world rankings and only recently returned to action after an eight-week break from the tour to help him to rediscover his spark.

Judging by the 30-year-old's six-under second round at the 2010 JBWere Masters - achieved while those around him were being blown to smithereens by a fierce northerly - that spark is well and truly back.

But Garcia doesn't regard it as a potential career turning point.

"That's going too far ahead," he said.

"It's slowly getting better but I can go out there tomorrow and shoot 75 ... and all the assumptions would be totally different."

"I'm just taking it slowly, taking the positives out of everything."

"I'm trying to make sure that rounds like yesterday don't affect me, making sure that a bad round doesn't get to me too much."

"It kind of reflects my golf game at the moment, some rounds are spectacular and some rounds are not that great.

Garcia likened Friday's conditions to the kind he would commonly experience at a British Open, only hotter.

"I've always enjoyed playing that kind of golf, I've always enjoyed playing in the wind," he said.

"I would rather do that than play in the rain."

Asked whether he had a score in mind at the start of the day, Garcia, who was not at all pleased with his opening round 73, replied: "Fifty-eight!"

"Even though it was quite difficult because of the conditions, it seemed like we were making the right decisions all the time."

"If you put that with the way I hit the ball today, to tell you the truth, it was 65 but it wasn't like that's the lowest I could have shot today, I hit so many good shots."

"I think I only missed one green in those conditions and I managed to make birdie on that green.'

"It was just one of those rounds where everything was on."

At four under, Garcia sits one shot from clubhouse leader Daniel Gaunt.

 
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