AUGUSTA, GA. -- For the first time in 84 major championships, Sergio Garcia won’t be in the field.

Garcia announced on Twitter that he tested positive for COVID following the Houston Open and has withdrawn from the Masters.

"On Saturday night after driving back from the Houston Open, I started feeling a bit of a sore throat and a cough," wrote Garcia on Twitter. "The symptoms stayed with me on Sunday morning so I decided to get tested for COVID-19 and so did my wife Angela. Thankfully she tested negative, but I didn’t."

The withdrawal means that Garcia’s long streak of playing majors will end. The last time the Spaniard wasn’t in a major was the 1999 U.S. Open.

It also ends the opportunity for him to become a two-time Masters winner in 2020. Garcia was showing good form of late, winning the Sanderson Farms Championship in October.

He won the Masters in 2017 for his first major title but missed the cut in his last two trips to Augusta National.

There is no indication of how or where Garcia contracted the virus, however last week’s stop in Houston was the second to welcome back fans. A limited number of 2,000 spectators were at the event.

Garcia becomes the second player to withdraw from the Masters after testing positive. Last week, Joaquin Niemann of Chile withdrew after a positive test.

Players who withdraw are not replaced in the tournament and the field now sits at 94.