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From GOLF.com

SOUTHPORT, England — Sleep didn''t come easy on those first few nights, when Sergio Garcia''s emotions were still raw, when he would replay the last minutes of the 136th British Open at Carnoustie for hours on end. He remembers walking down the 17th fairway, where he spotted Padraig Harrington walking the wrong way toward him from the 18th hole, and he remembers smiling and saying hello.

"What was I thinking?" Garcia says today. "I was thinking. ''Come on, let''s get playing well, let''s make par here and hopefully make par on the last and see if that''s good enough. Don''t get ahead of yourself.''"

Instead, Garcia bogeyed the last hole, missing a 10-foot putt for the championship, falling over on his belly putter and then falling to Harrington in a playoff.

Garcia, now 28, returns to the British Open at Royal Birkdale this week as a different person in many ways. He has ditched the long putter since last year''s championship, opting for a shorter model he used earlier in his career. He won the Players Championship, the biggest non-major tournament in professional golf. And with Tiger Woods out for the year, Garcia will stand on Birkdale''s first tee as a strong favorite to win his first major.

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