The PGA The Players Championship ended Sunday and Sergio Garcia was the man who came out on top winning a grand total of $ 1,710,000.00. That’s some nice pocket change for winning the richest tournament in golf.

Garcia ended the longest victory drought of his career by making a clutch par putt to force a playoff and hitting the island-green 17th on the first extra hole to defeat Paul Goydos in The Players Championship.

Haunted by putting problems that kept him without a victory the past three years and 53 PGA TOUR events, Garcia came up with a 45-foot birdie on the 14th to get back in the game and a 7-foot par putt on the 18th hole for a 1-under 71.

“It’s been a lot of work,” Garcia said, clutching the crystal trophy. “It feels like the last three years I’ve been playing well. Unfortunately, I haven’t been able to come around and win. This week, I played so nicely. It felt like everything was so hard. I’m just thrilled the week is over and I managed to finish on top.”

The wind this weekend was absolutely relentless and Garcia had never needed a win so badly. This 28 year old Spaniard has had the most PGA tour wins of people under 30.

In his victory speech he was also quoted and saying thanks to Tiger Woods for not playing due to his knee surgery. Without Tiger there he could have never won!

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