Sergio Garcia sets Ryder Cup aim before start of LIV Golf season

The Spaniard has rejoined the DP World Tour and reckons helium volition play capable to suffice for a record-equalling 11th quality successful the Ryder Cup for Team Europe - captained by his person Luke Donald

Sergio Garcia has claimed helium volition play capable events this play to suffice for a record-equalling 11th Ryder Cup quality successful September.

The LIV Golf prima paid astir £1m successful fines to bargain backmost his rank to the DP World Tour past November aft talks with his person and skipper Luke Donald. The 2017 Masters champion is present ranked world No.471 but tin play successful Augusta arsenic a past victor and has been invited to the US PGA successful May. And the USGA announced this week that the apical ranked non-exempt LIV subordinate volition beryllium invited to the US Open successful June.

Speaking earlier the archetypal LIV Golf lawsuit of the play successful Riyadh, Garcia told Al Arabiya: "I emotion the Ryder Cup. Everyone knows that. It’s my favourite lawsuit of the twelvemonth successful golf. I deliberation that we’re members of the European Tour again, of the DP World Tour. That was the archetypal criteria to beryllium eligible to beryllium a portion of the Ryder Cup.

“Now it’s going to beryllium connected however I play passim the year. And hopefully, with the magnitude of tournaments that I’m going to play, hopefully if I play really, truly good I tin marque it connected my own.

“If not, past evidently I volition beryllium connected a prime from the skipper from Luke Donald. But we’ll see. The lone happening I tin bash is play the champion play that I tin play and past spot wherever that benignant of puts me.” Garcia is already the grounds Ryder Cup points scorer and volition lucifer the quality grounds acceptable by Lee Westwood and Sir Nick Faldo if helium makes the squad astatine Bethpage Black successful September.

The Spaniard, 45, had resigned his DP World Tour rank successful May 2023 aft an arbitration sheet recovered successful favour of the DP World Tour and ratified its close to good and prohibition players who competed successful LIV Golf events without permission. He has been serving a prohibition but helium is present aiming to instrumentality to the DP World Tour astatine the BMW International Open successful Munich successful July.

Garcia volition beryllium 47 erstwhile the adjacent Ryder Cup is staged successful Europe astatine Adare Manor successful 2027. “I would emotion to beryllium playing still,” said the Spaniard. Obviously determination person been immoderate talks oregon determination were immoderate talks astir possibly the anticipation of maine being the skipper there. But evidently my absorption arsenic of present is connected playing and hopefully making a fewer much Ryder Cups if my crippled is bully enough.

"And erstwhile that doesn’t happen, past we tin effort to absorption connected different things. But I don’t privation to deliberation astir that until I cognize that I’m not bully capable to beryllium a portion of it.”

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