AUSTIN, Texas – Sometimes drama just finds Sergio Garcia.

The Spanish star was left to rue a rush of blood error in his Quarterfinals match against Matt Kuchar at the World Golf Championships–Dell Technologies Match Play that cost him a hole at a critical point.

Already 1-down in his match, Garcia had a seven-foot par putt on the par-3 7th hole to bring the match back even following a Kuchar bogey.

But he pulled it slightly offline, missing barely to the left.

Before Kuchar could verbally concede the four-inch tap in for a half, Garcia swiped at it with the back of his putter and the ball lipped out of the hole.

Without a concession, Garcia was then ruled to have lost the hole, sending him 2-down.

“I saw him off the green, I said, Sergio, I didn’t say anything, I’m not sure how this works out,” Kuchar said after he closed out a 2-up win.

“I didn’t want that to be an issue. So I asked (rules official) Robby Ware. I said, Listen, I don’t know how to handle this, but I didn’t concede the putt, Sergio missed the putt."

“Sergio said, 'totally his mistake. He knew he made a mistake.' I said, I didn’t want that to be how a hole was won or lost. And he said, 'Well, you can concede a hole.'”

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But Kuchar stopped short of gifting his opponent such a request.

“I apologized. I said, I don't like the way this was played out… but I thought about it and said I don’t like that idea,” Kuchar added.

Garcia continued trying to advocate ways Kuchar could return the favor as the played the eighth, and ninth holes, but by the 10th he had accepted his fate and responsibility for it.

“It is quite simple. I screwed up. Simple as that,” Garcia said.

“The only issue was that Kuch was like I didn’t say good, but I don’t want to take the hole, I don’t want to do this like this, and I was like OK that’s fine - so what do you want to do?"

“Because there are many options that you can do if you don’t want to take the hole, even though you’ve already lost that hole. Obviously, he didn’t like any of the options that were there. So it’s fine. At the end of the day I am the one who made the mistake.”

Kuchar insisted the situation was not a deliberate ploy to try to upset his opponent.

“Certainly I don’t use any gamesmanship, it's not a match play tactic, it's not anything,” Kuchar said.

“It was just one of those mistakes that Sergio made. And I said it's kind of one of those tough deals in the game of golf.”

Garcia made a late comeback in the match and was just 1-down heading to the 18th meaning without the snafu he would have been all-square and not under pressure to win the last outright.

When he was unable to birdie the final hole, he conceded the match.

Kuchar will now meet Lucas Bjerregaard in the Semifinals after the Dane took down Tiger Woods in their Quarterfinals showdown.