Sergio Garcia’s return to Championship After a two-year absence came with a T34 end, a last round where he broke his driver In the 2nd hole, a light-hearted blow to the eventual winner Finishing Scottie Scheffler And many questions about his plans for September.
Garcia, who holds Ryder Cup’s record for most points on 28.5, has been open to his latest talks with European captain Luke Donald and his desire to make his 11th Ryder Cup. This decision, of course, belongs to Donald, anyway.
“We’ve spoken. It’s no secret we’ve spoken,” Garcia said on Sunday after he finished his round at Royal Portrush. “The world would say to me to be there. Of course, if I can help the team, that’s my main goal. I’ve always said it.”
At the end of the big men’s season, it seems at least 11 of the 12 members of the European 2023 team winning team will be in Bethpage Black this fall. Rory Mcilroy is already qualified at the point. Robert Macintyre, Tommy Fleetwood, Tyrrell Hatton, Shane Lowry and Sepp Straka are currently in line to make the team in point. Ludwig åberg, Victor Hovland, Justin Rose and Matt Fitzpatrick also appear in line to return through the captain’s election. This leaves two points. A likely to go to Jon RahmAnd the other is in the air between Rasmus Hojgaard, Nicolai Hoygaard, Thomas Detry and Garcia.
Garcia won early this season in Liv Hong Kong but lost her cut in the Masters and finished T67 in the Championship PGA. After that end in Quail Hollow, Garcia said he would not think of accepting the choice of a captain By Donald, given the way he was currently playing. But the 2017 masters champion has surprisingly brought it back with its latest raising in the game.
“The last two years have been good,” Garcia said about his game. “Of course a little by a diving after the masters. I played beautifully in Dallas, I just had some bad endings in some rounds. Then I definitely played very nicely in Valderrama, didn’t well well and still finished Top 10.”
While Donald prepares to complete his team in six weeks, Garcia has two things that work in his favor as he sings about choosing a captain.
First: Experience. With 10 cups Ryder and 28.5 points under his belt, including gathering three points while losing the European team explosion in Whistling Straits in 2021, Garcia would bring a critical presence of veterans to a European team that will face a harsh crowd of New York at Bethpage Black.
“I think I can bring things to the team – in any team that would probably need it,” Garcia said. “At the end of the day. When you’re there on the course. It is good to have one of those experienced guys to put your arm around you and feel like don’t worry, I got you, when people are screaming to you and screaming and wishing you all the bad things you might think about. Yes, it’s easy to get a little shell and a shell. (Parne. As novice.
Garcia touched his good story in Bethpage Black. He ended up the fourth in the US Open 2002, bound for the 10th in 2009 and lost the cut in the 2019 PGA championship. This Bethpage experience could be another feather on his lid.
“It was a long time ago because I didn’t play for a long time,” Garcia said. “We’ll see it. It depends. That’s definitely something beautiful to have. I’ve done really well there many times I played there, I think.”
Experience at Ryder Cup and Bethpage Black would undoubtedly benefit from a European team seeking to win on American soil for the first time since the 2012 “Miracle in Medinah”. Restation of Garcia speaks for itself, but his potential Ryder Cup partner and their star appearance as a duet could be Donal. In 2021, Garcia and Rahm went 3-0-0 as a tandem and were the only bright country for a European team left in Wisconsin.
“You would think like this,” Garcia said when asked if his partnership with Rahm would be useful in Bethpage. “Jon and I are good friends. We played well when we played on Whistling Straits. I was watching some videos on YouTube this week in our matches there. We’ve had a great time. We gel together. Of course, it’s easy to play with ion because it’s so good. It is still a few months going.”
Rahm, who finished T34 along with Garcia in Portrush, likes the sound of a reunion of Ryder Cup in New York with his friend and compatriot.
“It would be very special,” Rahm said. “I would love to be in the squad first myself and then think of someone else. Yes, it would be quite unique. He would be a fantastic guy with his experience Ryder Cup, how he played in the northeast and actually played in Bethpage, having played well in Bethpage in the past, so someone who is known to be known in Radar.”
Of course, depending on all this is Garcia’s Movement, Rahm and Hatton in Liv Golf. While the USA team included Brooks Koepka in the 2023 team, Team Europe has not yet included an Liv member. Rahm and Hatton were both PGA Tour members in 2023. Hatton should qualify at the point, and feels like a certainty that Donald will use the choice of a captain in Rahm.
Despite the cold struggle of the professional golf, Garcia said he is sure that his game, not the politics of sports, will be the only thing that matters.
“That’s what he told me,” Garcia told Donald. “It’s just about how my game is and what can I bring, what can I add to the team, as simple as that.”
When it was suggested that Garcia’s last chance was open to leave an impression on Donald, the Spaniard rejected the premises.
“I don’t think it’s the last chance, to be completely honest,” Garcia said. “I think there is still a good amount of weeks. At the end of the day, I just have to do what I can. I have to try to play the best I can, and then we’ll see what happens.”
Garcia will require the choice of a captain to make his 11th team Ryder Cup. He is all of the opportunities to win the points needed to qualify automatically. But his yjore game with Rahm and his experience of Ryder Cup may be what makes it in the past line others clashing for the last place and the European team. If this was communicated to him, Garcia was not leaving Sunday as he left northern Ireland.
“I wish I could have a crystal ball and see the future, but unfortunately I can’t.”
Josh Schrock is a writer and reporter for Golf.com. Before entering Golf, Josh was the interior of Chicago Bears for the NBC Sports Chicago. He previously covered 49ers and Warriors for NBC Sports Bay Area. A native Oregonian and Uo alum, seduces and spends his free time walking with his wife and dog, thinking about how the ducks will break his heart again, and trying to become half a professor into pieces. A true romantic for golf, Josh will never stop trying to break 90 and will never lose the confidence that Rory Mcilroy’s main drought will end (updated: he did it). Josh Schrock can be reached in Josho.schrock@golf.com.
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