Driving the ball well is essential around Royal Portrush but Sergio Garcia made that task impossibly tough after a moment of Open madness.Starting his final round at level par for the tournament, Garcia had the chance to climb up the leaderboard on Sunday and look to secure some much needed world ranking points.Garcia hit his drive left on Portrush’s second holeHe then smashed his driver into the tee boxAnd his club snapped in half with the driver head flying across the tee boxTop 10 finishers and ties at Portrush will also book their place for next year’s event so that would likely have been the target for the Spaniard.But an early rush of blood put Garcia on the back foot.After parring the tricky first hole, Garcia stepped up to the second tee box with driver in hand.As he unleashed his tee shot, he pulled it left into some heavy rough and the red mist instantly descended. The LIV Golf man proceeded to smash his driver into the grass, snapping it clean in half and rendering it useless.While he did go on to make birdie on the hole, his lack of driver will hurt him for the rest of the round on the 7,381-yard track.And those woes were compounded just two holes later when his tee shot lacked the power to carry the fairway bunkers on the fourth hole which resulted in a bogey five.With just 13 usable clubs left in his bag, he also failed to reach the drivable fifth hole and could only par one of the easiest holes on the course.Garcia failed to qualify for The Open in 2023 and 2024 but booked his place at Portrush by virtue of being in the top 5 of the 2025 LIV Golf League.He has been eager to prove he still has the capability to contend at top events but is now without a top ten major finish since his Masters victory in 2017.View Tweet: https://t.co/rqWIdfnLbbGarcia was once a regular feature at the top of Open leaderboards having been top ten or better in ten of the 16 tournaments between 2001 and 2016.His best Open performance came back in 2007 when he lost to Padraig Harrington in a playoff at Carnoustie.He was also T2 with Rickie Fowler at Royal Liverpool in 2014, ending two-strokes behind champion Rory McIlroy.On LIV this season, Garcia won in Hong Kong in March and was also third in Miami to sit fifth in the overall standings with three events to play.Once his Open campaign is done and dusted, he will head up to Stoke-on-Trent for the LIV Golf UK tournament which starts next Friday at JCB Golf & Country Club.Meanwhile, Garcia’s LIV colleague and fellow Spaniard Jon Rahm has called for the rules of golf to be changed following Shane Lowry’s two-stroke punishment on Friday night.Garcia has struggled at the majors for years nowGettyLowry was handed the penalty when officials reviewed television footage and deemed that he had fractionally moved the ball during a practice swing.“I can relate because I’ve been there. They’ve done exactly the same thing to me where they give you the iPad, and say ‘look what happened’,” said Rahm.“You’re in a no-win situation because if you say I didn’t see it, therefore I don’t think it should be a penalty even though the rule says it should be visible to the naked eye, you always run the risk of being called something you don’t want to be called.“And if you take it on the safe side, you’re taking a two-shot penalty.“It needs to be visible without a camera. If the rule says visible to the naked eye, we need to uphold that more than anything else.“Something needs to be changed for sure, I just don’t know exactly how they could change it.”talkSPORT 2 will have live commentary of The 153rd Open from Royal Portrush this week.Download the talkSPORT app to listen live to our coverage of the major action.