5) As Forbes highlighted, Garcia was the richest player never to have won a Major title until this week. He is now the sixth highest golf earner with $66.5m. (Steve Stricker, with $61.2m, is the biggest earner without a major).
6) His fiancee is Texan Angela Akins, who featured prominently on the TV coverage as he headed towards Masters victory. Her father Marty and grandfather are famous college football figures. New Orleans Saints quarterback Drew Brees is her cousin. Akins, a top high school golfer, is a journalist who works for the Golf Channel.
7) Garcia said his future wife and father-in-law are influences.
"Marty is a very, very positive, very, you know, outspoken and very, very confident kind of guy, and it definitely helps when he's encouraging you and things like that. Angela is the same way. They are all very competitive. They are positive things."
8) The Spaniard is widely regarded as golf's best ball striker, with a unique swing in which he holds his wrist angle until very late. Some analysts say the key to his art is the speed of the body turn. Garcia re-designed his swing as a 22-year-old, to limit the damage done on his off days.
9) Garcia climbed a tree to play a shot at the Arnold Palmer Invitational in Florida, successfully hitting the ball one-handed but injuring his shoulder in the process. His stunned playing partner William McGirt said: ""He called for a club. He's hugging the tree. And the ball comes flying out."
10) Garcia's nickname is El Nino - 'The Kid". But he didn't really like it when he was young.
"I've been called 'El Nino' since I was 14. It doesn't really bother me but wouldn't it be more normal to call me Sergio?", he said in his first year a pro.
11) He is a football lover who helps run his hometown club Borriol in Castellon, on the east coast of Spain. He has even played for them now and then. Garcia is a Real Madrid fan, and has a club head cover with their insignia on it. Wikipedia lists Garcia as the only notable person from Borriol, population 5000.
12) Early in his career, Garcia said fishing helped him relax for golf. He loves football and tennis. Since 2008, poker has been a major hobby. "Just as in golf you need a lot of patience in tournaments. You have to be able to fold a lot of hands, even good ones if necessary," he said.
13) He had former girlfriend Katharina Boehm, a terrific golfer, on his bag for a tournament in Thailand, and won."I wanted to keep going, but she fired me," Garcia said afterwards. South African Glen Murray has been Garcia's caddie for most of his career, although the Spaniard tried a batch of others around 2014.
