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Nicknamed “El Nino”, Sergio Garcia Fernandez is a Spanish professional golfer who started playing golf at age 3. He was taught and mentored by his father, Vitor. He won his first club championship at age 12. After 4 years, he set the record as the youngest player to be in the cut of a European Tour event. In 1995, he was also proclaimed as the youngest player to win the European Amateur. In 1998, he won the British Amateur.

Garcia turned professional in 1999, after shooting the lowest amateur score in the 1999 Masters Tournament.

In 2001, Sergio won his first PGA Tournament at the 2001 Mastercard Colonial in Fort Worth, Texas. He also won the Buick Classic on the same year.

In 2002, he won the Mercedes Championships and in 2004, García won the EDS Byron Nelson Championship and the Buick Classic for the second time. His sixth PGA Tour victory came at the 2005 Booz Allen Classic. He also plays a limited schedule on the European Tour, where he has won six times.

On May 11, 2008, García won The Players Championship on the PGA Tour in a playoff against Paul Goydos. On the first playoff hole, the 17th, Goydos hit a pitching wedge that ballooned and fell inches short of the green and into the water, while García played a pitching wedge to within four feet of the hole. Goydos made double bogey while García made par for the win.