"I want to launch an unreserved regret. I did not want to upset anyone," Garcia said Wednesday. "My answer was completely dense and out of place."
Tiger Woods
Garcia was at a European Tour awards banquet Tuesday night when he was jokingly ask if he would have Woods over for dinner throughout the U.S. Open. The two players had been verbally infighting since The Players finals nearly two weeks ago.
"We'll have him round each night," Garcia replied. "We will serve fried chicken."
The remark took the golfers' differences into ugly land, reminiscent of when Fuzzy Zoeller made a similar statement about Woods after he won the 1997 Masters, suitable the first player of black tradition to win a major.
"The comment that was made wasn't silly. It was wrong, upsetting and clearly unsuitable," Woods said in a succession of tweets. "I'm confident that there is real apologize for the remark was made. The Players ended almost two weeks ago and it's lengthy past time to shift and talk about golf."
For once, both players decided.
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Garcia held an unrehearsed news discussion at the BMW PGA contest to complex on a announcement he sent out Tuesday night throughout the European Tour.
"I want to also act contrite to my Ryder Cup teammates, who were there last night for taking the shine away from a brilliant event, and lastly and foremost, I want to make an apology to Tiger and to anyone I could have insulted. I felt very sick about it and feel really bad, and just hope to settle things down and move on."
Garcia said he called Mark Steinberg, Woods' agent at Excel Sports, since he doesn't have a phone number for the world's No. 1 player.
The Spaniard said his comment about fried chicken was not planned as a racist statement and that he was caught off guard by the question from Golf Channel's Steve Sands.
"It was a funny question and I wanted it to be a amusing answer in reply," he said. "I started to get a sick feeling straight after the dinner and I felt so bad I thinking my heart was going to come out of my body. I felt bad about it all day."
Woods was on his way to a record win in the 1997 Masters when Moeller was talking about his performance and ended by saying, "So you know what you guys do when he gets in here? Pat him on the back, say congratulations, enjoy it and tell him not to serve fried chicken next year. Or collard greens, or whatever the hell they serve."
The remark followed Moeller for the rest of his career, and it cost him major endorsements.
Garcia's main sponsor is Taylor Made asides, which issued a statement Wednesday that his comment "was offensive and in no way aligns with Taylor Made aides Golf's values and corporate culture.
Tiger Woods
Garcia was at a European Tour awards banquet Tuesday night when he was jokingly ask if he would have Woods over for dinner throughout the U.S. Open. The two players had been verbally infighting since The Players finals nearly two weeks ago.
"We'll have him round each night," Garcia replied. "We will serve fried chicken."
The remark took the golfers' differences into ugly land, reminiscent of when Fuzzy Zoeller made a similar statement about Woods after he won the 1997 Masters, suitable the first player of black tradition to win a major.
"The comment that was made wasn't silly. It was wrong, upsetting and clearly unsuitable," Woods said in a succession of tweets. "I'm confident that there is real apologize for the remark was made. The Players ended almost two weeks ago and it's lengthy past time to shift and talk about golf."
For once, both players decided.
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Is he back? Only Tiger Woods knows for sure
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Garcia held an unrehearsed news discussion at the BMW PGA contest to complex on a announcement he sent out Tuesday night throughout the European Tour.
"I want to also act contrite to my Ryder Cup teammates, who were there last night for taking the shine away from a brilliant event, and lastly and foremost, I want to make an apology to Tiger and to anyone I could have insulted. I felt very sick about it and feel really bad, and just hope to settle things down and move on."
Garcia said he called Mark Steinberg, Woods' agent at Excel Sports, since he doesn't have a phone number for the world's No. 1 player.
The Spaniard said his comment about fried chicken was not planned as a racist statement and that he was caught off guard by the question from Golf Channel's Steve Sands.
"It was a funny question and I wanted it to be a amusing answer in reply," he said. "I started to get a sick feeling straight after the dinner and I felt so bad I thinking my heart was going to come out of my body. I felt bad about it all day."
Woods was on his way to a record win in the 1997 Masters when Moeller was talking about his performance and ended by saying, "So you know what you guys do when he gets in here? Pat him on the back, say congratulations, enjoy it and tell him not to serve fried chicken next year. Or collard greens, or whatever the hell they serve."
The remark followed Moeller for the rest of his career, and it cost him major endorsements.
Garcia's main sponsor is Taylor Made asides, which issued a statement Wednesday that his comment "was offensive and in no way aligns with Taylor Made aides Golf's values and corporate culture.
