Wednesday 22 May 2013 15:36, UK
Sergio Garcia has apologised for what could be construed as a racist remark about Tiger Woods at the European Tour's annual awards ceremony.
Garcia told reporters ahead of the BMW PGA Championship at Wentworth that there was no end in sight to his spat with Woods. Garcia felt he had been disturbed on his approach to the second hole when spectators cheered Woods for taking a fairway wood out of his bag, indicating he would try to reach the green from his position in the trees. "He's not my favourite guy to play with," the Spaniard said. "He's not the nicest guy on Tour. We don't like each other. It doesn't take a rocket engineer to figure that out. He is who he is. I am who I am. It's best we're not playing together again." Asked on Monday if he would call Garcia to clear the air, Woods simply said 'No'. And Garcia said yesterday: "Obviously you can't like everybody. I think there's people that you connect with and there's people that you don't. It's pretty much as simple as that. "He doesn't need me in his life, I don't need him in mine, let's move on and keep doing what we're doing. "It's never really been a true connection like I would have with maybe Luke (Donald) or Lee (Westwood) or Adam Scott or some of the other guys that I get along with well. "It's fine. It doesn't mean that I cannot play with him. It's just another player, obviously a good player. "It's just when I'm playing with someone I enjoy, there's a bit more talking going round and when you're playing with someone that you don't fancy as much you're just a little bit quiet."