Sergio Garcia and 8 other LIV Golf stars to become DP World Tour members in 2025

Nine LIV Golf players person taken up rank connected the DP World Tour for 2025 - including erstwhile Sergio Garcia, who has been fixed a way backmost into the Ryder Cup

Nine LIV Golf players, including erstwhile Masters champion Sergio Garcia, person signed up for the DP World Tour successful 2025.

The database of caller members besides includes Tyrrell Hatton, Jon Rahm, Adrian Meronk, Dean Burmester, Joaquin Niemann, Thomas Pieters, Patrick Reed and Lucas Herbert. Interestingly, Garcia is the lone 1 who didn't enactment successful this season's DP World Tour.

The Spanish golfer resigned his rank backmost successful 2023 aft an arbitration sheet upheld the tour's close to penalise players who took portion successful LIV Golf events without permission. This determination was a stroke for Garcia, a founding subordinate of the breakaway LIV league successful 2022, arsenic it resulted successful him being excluded from the Ryder Cup.

To beryllium considered for selection, European players indispensable beryllium progressive members of the tour. Garcia, who has participated successful 10 Ryder Cups, holds the grounds for the astir points successful the event's past with 28.5, boasting 25 wins against conscionable 13 losses and 7 ties. Despite being 44, helium remains a top-tier player, having won the LIV Golf Andalucia successful July and finishing 3rd successful the season-long bid of merit.

However, helium had to ticker from location arsenic his European allies defeated the Americans successful Rome to regain the Ryder Cup 13 months ago. But now, the 2017 Masters champion has reopened the doorway to play successful the Ryder Cup again.

The DP World Tour has told Mirror Sport that Garcia has settled the hefty fines, which exceeded £1million, incurred for his information successful LIV Golf events. Before he's backmost connected the DP World Tour, Garcia inactive faces a suspension period.

While it’s uncertain erstwhile he'll instrumentality to the greens, regaining his rank means Ryder Cup eligibility is backmost connected the array for him. His eagerness to articulation Luke Donald's squad astatine Bethpage Black adjacent autumn is nary secret.

"He thinks helium tin play," Donald said successful September. "He wants to play. I don't deliberation helium has talked to maine astir being an adjunct captain, but again, helium would person to re-join the circuit for him to beryllium eligible.

"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 certainly, we've had that discussion."

Another constituent of involvement is the American Ryder Cup team, which experiences repercussions from this situation. Of the 9 LIV Golfers with imaginable DP World Tour enactment adjacent season, Patrick Reed is the lone American. He secures his spot by virtuousness of his 2019 Masters triumph.

Reed's eligibility to vie connected the DP World Tour could supply him with an vantage implicit his chap countrymen vying for Ryder Cup qualification who deficiency akin privileges. Reed volition person the accidental to accumulate world ranking points, a perk not disposable astatine LIV events, enhancing his prospects of participating successful the majors and subsequently securing a spot connected Keegan Bradley's 12-man USA team.