Sergio Garcia was quick to see the positives despite more final-day heartbreak at The Barclays over the weekend.

Just two weeks after he narrowly missed out on the USPGA title, the Spaniard came up just short again at the Ridgewood Country Club as he was beaten in a play-off by Vijay Singh in the first of the four FedEx Cup play-off events.

But although it was another painful defeat, Garcia insisted he was pleased to have put himself in contention once again.

"Well, it happens," he said afterwards. "What can you do? You can't take it the wrong way.

"I think the most important thing about it is that I keep putting myself in a good position, and unfortunately somebody just seems to be able to come up with some spectacular playing when I'm out there on top.

"I hit a great putt (at the first extra hole), it just snuck in on the left side, and I knew at that time that obviously Vijay still had to putt, but I had a chance, and for sure, I wasn't going to be out of the play-off.

"I knew it had a chance (Singh's putt). I mean, if he's 10 feet away, you know that he's probably going to make it.

"Obviously he still had a shot at it. The same way I made it, he can do it. And he did.

"And then he followed it unbelievably, holed that putt after I did, and then he just played a really solid 17th hole. You know, again, he did it in regulation and he played it pretty much exactly the same way in the play-off.

"So unfortunately it just didn't work out. He just hit two great shots on 17."

"I felt like I played solid all week. I got a couple of bad breaks here and there that maybe would have made the difference, and a couple of good ones here and there, too.

"At the end of the day, I had a shot. That's what you ask yourself for, and Vijay just came out with the goods and you've just got to give hats off to him."