Anirban Lahiri had his nerves get one of the best of him on the LIV Golf occasion at Valderrama in Spain on the weekend.
He missed a putt from what couldn’t have been greater than two toes to win his first occasion on the circuit.
Within the league’s tenth event of the yr, the 37-year-old went into the ultimate spherical with a four-shot lead regardless of taking part in poorly for the majority of the day.
With two holes left, he had made 4 bogeys and two birdies, however he birdied the par-5 seventeenth and wanted solely to par the final gap to win when Sergio Garcia three-putted on his ultimate gap of the day to card a bogey to complete.
Garcia gained with par on the second playoff gap after Lahiri and the Spaniard each made par to start out the shootout. On one in every of his favorite golf holes on this planet, Garcia performed 66 to win his first LIV event. In a playoff, his Fireballs group additionally took house the group title.