Does Sergio Garcia still have the fire?

Does Sergio Garcia still have the fire?

PALM HARBOR, Fla. -- Sergio Garcia talks like he is fired up to be back to the business of playing golf. He just doesn't sound like it.The words say so, but whether or not he really means it is a matter to be determined.Sergio Garcia makes his 2011 PGA Tour debut this week at the Transitions Championship. He did not qualify for the WGC-Match Play Championship or the WGC-Cadillac Championship earlier this season.Garcia is making his season debut on the PGA Tour this week at the Transitions Championship, and he shrugged off the notion that it's any big deal.Of course, one reason he is just starting the season is he wasn't eligible for the WGC-Accenture Match Play or the WGC-Cadillac Championship. That is due, in part, to his drastic slide down the world rankings and a leave of absence he took after last year's PGA Championship.Garcia clearly had lost some enthusiasm for the game -- and a return to that eagerness at this point is debatable golf business cards shirts."To tell you the truth, I just want to be out there and just want to enjoy playing," said Garcia, 31, who captured the last of his seven PGA Tour titles (he also has seven in Europe) three years ago at the Players Championship. "Hopefully just play better as I get on. Whatever happens, happens. I know what I'm capable of doing."Garcia has not played in the United States since missing the cut at the PGA Championship last August. At that point, he took a two-month break from the game and didn't return until after the Ryder Cup, during which he served as one of European captain Colin Montgomerie's assistants.If the atmosphere in Wales didn't help restore some of Garcia's lost motivation, it is difficult to imagine what could Tiger Woods is Back. He played his first Ryder Cup as a 19-year-old in 1999 and played on five straight teams, earning a reputation as one of Europe's most passionate players.Although he had a heartbreaking playoff defeat at the 2007 British Open to Padraig Harrington, Garcia bounced back to claim his biggest victory in 2008 at the Players Championship, defeating Paul Goydos in a playoff. Although he again had a tough loss later that year at the PGA Championship, Garcia had climbed to No. 2 in the world by the spring of 2009.