Luke Donald reveals Sergio Garcia talks as European Ryder Cup legend plots comeback

Luke Donald revealed helium has held talks with Sergio Garcia as the European stalwart plots a daze instrumentality to the Ryder Cup.

Garcia resigned his DP World Tour rank successful May past twelvemonth aft being slapped with fines and suspensions for playing connected the breakaway Saudi-backed LIV Golf circuit.

That determination near the Spaniard, Europe’s highest all-time points scorer successful the competition’s history, ineligible for enactment past twelvemonth astatine Marco Simone arsenic Donald’s broadside regained the trophy.

However, caller disconnected a resurgent twelvemonth which saw him decorativeness 3rd successful the LIV’s end-of-season idiosyncratic standings, Garcia is present said to beryllium keen to marque a instrumentality to the biennial lucifer play competition.

And European skipper Donald said helium has spoken to his erstwhile teammate astir the anticipation of a spectacular comeback astatine Bethpage Black adjacent year.

‘He (Garcia) resigned his rank a mates of years agone but we person had immoderate chats,’ Donald said astatine an lawsuit successful New York to people the countdown to adjacent year’s event.

‘He’s considering rejoining; he’d person to travel each the rules and regulations similar everyone other and if helium does that helium volition beryllium eligible to partake successful the Ryder Cup.’

Asked if Garcia would reconsider rejoining the DP World Tour to marque his case, Donald added: ‘Yeah, we chatted connected the telephone a mates of weeks ago. He’s surely precise funny successful doing that.

‘He understands everything that’s progressive and again, the determination has to spell to him whether he’s prepared to bash each that. But surely we’ve had that discussion.’

While Garcia whitethorn beryllium keen to marque a return, the feasibility of that task whitethorn beryllium alternatively much difficult.

To regain his DP World Tour rank and play the minimum for events to marque himself eligible for selection, the 44-year-old would archetypal person to wide important fines owed to his LIV commitments.

The Spaniard could take to entreaty the fines, arsenic done by chap LIV golfers Jon Rahm and Tyrrell Hatton, but determination is nary warrant immoderate entreaty volition beryllium palmy and would permission him with a hefty measure to foot.

With LIV events not receiving points towards automatic qualification, Garcia would besides astir surely beryllium near requiring a captain’s prime from Donald to get backmost connected the squad for what would beryllium his eleventh Ryder Cup.

And determination is besides Garcia’s fractured relationships with respective existent European players for Donald to consider. While helium maintains a beardown relationship with chap countryman Jon Rahm, his narration with Rory McIlroy, for example, was damaged aft disagreements betwixt the brace erstwhile Garcia defected to LIV.

US Ryder Cup skipper Keegan Bradley, meanwhile, said helium would person nary hesitation successful selecting LIV golfers to correspond his American squad adjacent year.

‘For us, I americium going to instrumentality the 12 champion players,’ helium said.

‘If we consciousness similar determination are a fewer guys there, from 1 guy, 2 guys, immoderate it is. Then we are going to bash that, but we are excessively acold retired to fig retired however each this volition play retired but we are decidedly going to instrumentality the 12 champion players, whoever that shakes out.’

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