The 1996 Amateur Championship at Turnberry in Scotland was the time and place when and where your correspondent first came across Sergio Garcia in person.
Already the European Amateur champion, the then diminutive Spaniard was only 16 years old. He was also soaked through and frozen after 18-holes in weather that can only be described as “appalling,” even by Caledonian standards.
Still, the youngster in front of me came across as an engaging character, a lad with his sense of humour