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Two weeks after his chances for a second green jacket disappeared into the pond that fronts the 15th green at Augusta National, Sergio Garcia is ready to get back to action.
The Spaniard headlines the field this week at the Valero Texas Open, where he is the only player ranked inside the top 20 in the world on a course that he helped Greg Norman re-design in 2010. Garcia finished T-45 that year at TPC San Antonio, but this marks just his second start in the event since 2004.
Garcia stuck around to put the green jacket on Patrick Reed's shoulders earlier this month in Augusta, but Tuesday many of the questions he faced tied back to the defining moment of his Masters title defense: an octuple-bogey 13 during the first round that included six straight balls in the water.