Ian Poulter makes Ryder Cup return stance clear after Sergio Garcia pays £1million fine

Sergio Garcia has made the determination to wage implicit £1 cardinal successful fines to marque a instrumentality to the DP World Tour, but his chap LIV Golf prima Ian Poulter volition not travel successful his footsteps

Ian Poulter has admitted helium has nary plans to wage disconnected fines owed to the DP World Tour successful a bid to marque a instrumentality to the circuit, dissimilar chap LIV Golf subordinate Sergio Garcia.

Garcia and Poulter were isolated of a radical players who opted to discontinue the DP World Tour past year, having been fined and suspended for competing successful LIV events. In the lawsuit of Garcia, these fines reportedly passed the £1 cardinal people connected the backmost of his Saudi switch.

Last week, it was archetypal revealed by Bunkered that the Spanish prima had present settled these fines to return to the DP World Tour successful 2025, with the hopes of making the European Ryder Cup team.

Poulter meantime has claimed helium volition not beryllium pursuing successful his erstwhile teammate's footsteps and paying up, contempt a imaginable Ryder Cup instrumentality being astatine stake. “I personally wouldn’t wage due to the fact that I felt it was unjust astatine the clip to beryllium fined £100,000 a week,” the Majesticks co-captain told Sports Illustrated.

“It makes nary comprehension consciousness to maine astatine all. My stance has ne'er changed. I’ve played golf each implicit the world. I was ne'er playing fines by Europe for erstwhile I played extracurricular of Europe connected different tours astir the world. My stance inactive contiguous is the nonstop aforesaid stance I had 3 years.

"I haven’t backtracked. I haven’t changed my opinion. I inactive basal with the archetypal words. It’s not right. It’s precise unjustifiable. If I personally wouldn’t wage the fines myself, wherefore would I enactment my concern spouse successful that presumption to wage $2.4million towards a Ryder Cup that I’m really not going to play in?”

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Discussing immoderate imaginable accidental of him becoming a Ryder Cup vice-captain oregon skipper successful the future, helium added: "As it stands today, I’m presently not a subordinate of the European Tour. I americium not eligible to go Ryder Cup skipper oregon vice-captain. Until that presumption changes you tin lone truly play the hypothetical game.

"It is hard to enactment into words however things person unfolded successful the past 8 months towards a radical of individuals that are putting themselves successful presumption to beryllium eligible for playing oregon aboriginal captaincy. I americium conscionable not successful that presumption to instrumentality up rank again.”

Poulter had been a shoo-in to go a aboriginal person for the European team, but this accidental has since been dented connected the backmost of his determination to the LIV setup. When it comes to Garcia nevertheless that doorway has present re-opened, but according to existent captain, Luke Donald, the Spaniard has each volition of returning to the squad arsenic a player.

"He thinks helium tin play," Donald told reporters successful September. "He wants to play. He's talked to maine astir being an adjunct captain, but helium has to rejoin the circuit earlier immoderate of those conversations progress."