Sergio Garcia hoped to be one of the six elections of European captain Luke Donald on Monday. He wasn’t, like Donald Selected to restore 11 of the 12 members From his winning team of the 2023 Ryder Cup, with only Rasmus Hojgaard, who automatically qualified for the team, replacing his twin brother Nicolai.
With his fate Ryder Cup, Garcia withdrew from this week’s Irish Open to K Club to elaborate on his disappointment with losing the event in the team.
“I felt like I was looking forward to being part of this team, and so I felt mentally, you know, mentally a harsh kind,” Garcia told the golf. “I didn’t want to go there and not be completely engaged in tours and stuff, so I just decided to take a little rest time and spend it with the family and do some things, you know, some outs of golf and just a little rekindle, replenish the batteries.”
45-year-old Garcia is the leader of Europe’s Ryder Cup points, but did not seem to be seriously considered for a place in Donald’s squad. Garcia won Liv Hong Kong in March, but posted only the two endings of Top-10 in the last 10 events of the Breakway League schedule. At Major, its best conclusion was a T34 in Open.
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Garcia played in 10 direct glasses of Ryder before losing the 2023 event after his defense against Liv Golf. In April 2023, the DP World Tournament won its legal battle against Liv Golf, with an arbitration panel agreeing on the DP World Tournament could sanction members who violated his tour of the tour of the tournament. The DP World Tournament announced shortly after that 16 of the 17 players who left for Liv had paid their fines and noted that Garcia was the only one who refused to do so. The Spaniard then resigned from his membership, making him inappropriate for Ryder Cup.
Last November, Garcia paid his penalties and recovered his membership in the DP in the worldwhich placed it in good condition with the European District and gave it a path to the Donald’s 2025 squad. But after a T67 in PGA Championship, Garcia was not strong in his chances To make the team, given how poorly he was playing then.
“The way I’m playing, even if Luke offered me a choice now, I would say to him no,” Garcia said in Quail Hollow. “Of course, I have to get better. I have to get more where I was a little money before the masters. You know, just tell yourself and tell everyone that my game is strong, and it can help the team Europe. It is just as simple as it.”
But that Tune changed in the open championship In Royal Portrush. Garcia noted several times last year that he and Donald had “conversations” about him making a return to Ryder Cup. In northern Ireland, Garcia showed his Ryder Cup experience as something the team could use in Bethpage Black. Something he believed would be a feather on his lid, the time of selection.
“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.
Then there was everyone’s ion of everyone.
Rahm was one of the six elections of Donald’s captain on Monday, along with Shane Lowry, Sepp Straka, Victor Hovland, Ludwig åberg and Matt Fitzpatrick. Rahm and Garcia were paired together during the Ryder 2021 Cup in whistles. They were the only bright country for Europe, going 3-0-0 to a 19-9 loss.
Garcia hoped that the possibility of rebuilding that dynami pairing would work in his favor.
“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.”
Garcia told Golfmagic that his call to Donald was “good”, but “not that call he wanted.”
Donald will bring Rory Mcilroy, Justin Rose, Tommy Fleetwood, Robert Macintyre, Tyrrell Hatton, Rasmus Hoygaard, Shane Lowry, Sepp Straka, Viktor Hovland, Ludwig åberg, Jon Rahm and Matt Fitzpatrick in Bethpage Black.
The Ryder Cup begins on September 26th.
