Exclusive: Sergio Garcia has officially submitted his application to return to membership of the DP World Tour for the 2025 season, and he will now have a golden chance to return to the 2025 European Ryder Cup team.
A strong group of LIV Golfers, including Sergio Garcia, Jon Rahm, and Patrick Reed, will return to the DP World Tour in 2025 with reinstated memberships.
Sergio Garcia has officially submitted his application to return to membership of the DP World Tour for the 2025 season ahead of the deadline of Sunday November 17, a DP World Tour spokesperson has confirmed to GolfMagic.
Garcia, 44, has now paid his fines and that he will now need to serve his suspensions before he is able to play again on the DP World Tour.
The 2017 Masters champion is now a member of the DP World Tour for the 2025 season under Category 1.
“Sergio Garcia submitted his application to return to membership of the DP World Tour for the 2025 season ahead of the deadline on Sunday November 17,” a DP World Tour spokesperson confirmed to GolfMagic.
“Sergio Garcia has now paid his fines. He will now need to serve his suspensions before he is able to play on the DP World Tour, but he is a member for 2025 (in cat 1).”
GolfMagic’s Andy Roberts reached out to Garcia for comment and he simply replied with a winky face on text message.
Exclusive: Sergio Garcia to return to DPWT in 2025
“Sergio has paid his fines. He will now need to serve his suspensions before he is able to play on the DP World Tour, but he is a member for 2025 (in cat 1).”
— Andy Roberts (@AndyRobertsGolf) November 18, 2024
Garcia resigned from the DP World Tour in May 2023 after a sports arbitration panel ratified the sanctions imposed on him and other Tour pros that headed over to join LIV Golf without releases.
It is understood Garcia’s fines on the DP World Tour had surpassed £1m.
He last played in a DP World Tour event in September 2022.
The decision for the LIV Golf star to return to the DP World Tour in 2025 means Garcia now has a golden chance to return to Luke Donald’s European Ryder Cup team.
Sergio Garcia is back on the DP World Tour in 2025. He just needs to serve his suspensions before officially making a return. Will Sergio make Luke Donald’s 2025 European Ryder Cup team?
— GolfMagic (@GolfMagic) November 18, 2024
Garcia will be looking to play in his 11th European Ryder Cup team at Bethpage Black in New York from 26-28 September.
He is the record European Ryder Cup points scorer with 28.5 points.
The DP World Tour has also confirmed that Garcia’s LIV Golf peers Jon Rahm, Tyrrell Hatton, Adrian Meronk, Dean Burmester, Joaquin Niemann, Thomas Pieters, Lucas Herbert and Patrick Reed have also taken up membership on the DP World Tour for 2025.
Rahm, Hatton and Meronk recently appealed their fines for playing in conflicting events on LIV without a release from the DP World Tour.
That appeal is pending, which means they can continue to play on the DP World Tour until it takes place.
Garcia said last month that he was keen on a return to the former European Tour circuit in a bid to resurrect his Ryder Cup career.
“It’s something I’ve been wanting to do since I joined LIV Golf,” Garcia told GolfMagic in an exclusive interview in October 2024.
“Mostly because I want to be eligible for the Ryder Cup and the possibility of making another team and helping the European team retain the Cup in this aspect, but I’ve said from the beginning, the European Tour is the Tour I came from.
“To me it’s my home Tour and I want to support it. I feel like I still have a good push in the game that I can help some of the tournaments I would be willing to play in, and hopefully things with the European Tour and the players and stuff like that, hopefully things improve for everyone and we can achieve that.
“It’s my main goal. I want to see the European Tour get better, be stronger, and if I can help in any way to do that, it’s what I want to do.”
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