Sergio Garcia tells Rick Shiels he will return to the DP World Visit in arrange to form European Ryder Container team.
Sergio Garcia has told Rick Shiels he will make a stun return to the DP World Tour this year in a offered to recapture his put on the European Ryder Glass group in 2025.
Record European Ryder Cup points scorer Garcia, 44, was censured any inclusion in Luke Donald’s 2023 European Ryder Glass group taking after his choice to end his enrollment of the DP World Tour.
Garcia’s call to tear up his DP World Visit card came after the circuit fined and suspended all individuals that exchanged to the Saudi-bankrolled LIV Golf League.
Other European Ryder Container legends such as Lee Westwood and Ian Poulter moreover chosen to end their participations of the DP World Visit at the same time as Garcia.
In spite of the fact that Garcia paid his overwhelming £700,000 fine to the DP World Visit final season, it was as well small as well late where the European Ryder Container group and DP World Visit was concerned as the Spaniard played no portion within the activity at Marco Simone final September.
Donald’s European side went on to overcome Zach Johnson’s Joined together States group by five points in Rome.
But in later comments made to YouTube golf sensation Rick Shiels, Garcia has uncovered his assurance to play his way into at slightest one more Ryder Container group.
Garcia, who as of late wrapped up runner-up to Joaquin Niemann in LIV Golf’s to begin with occasion of the season, concedes he is energetic to be included in Donald’s 2025 European Ryder Container group at Bethpage Dark in Modern York.
In arrange to provide himself the leading conceivable chance to form the next team, Garcia told Shiels he not as it were serious to play well within the up and coming major championships, but that he will recapture his DP World Visit card this year and compete within the least four competitions required of a member.
NOTE:
Garcia’s meet on The Rick Shiels Golf Show below was shot in November 2023, but as it were made open by Shiels amid his latest podcast scene this week.
Observe from 49 minutes on Shiels’ video underneath for Garcia’s considerations on the DP World Visit and Ryder Container…
Garcia told Shiels:
“I am aiming to be a part once more of the European [DP World] Visit, so I will play my four occasions or something like that. Possibly in case I do well in those, perhaps I can get myself in [to the European Ryder Glass group] some way or another.”
Garcia added:
“I continuously said that I needed to – when I joined LIV – I needed to still keep being a part of the DP World Tour and play my minimum four occasions and keep my card. Clearly they didn’t make it as well simple to be able to do that, but one of the reasons why I joined LIV was to play less so I can spend more time with my family.”
Shiels at that point inquired Garcia how numerous competitions he extraordinary to play around the world in 2024, to which he answered:
“On the off chance that all goes well, I will be playing around 21 or 22 occasions.”
That number will include 14 tournaments on LIV Golf, four regular DP World Visit occasions to guarantee he sees out the prerequisite of his DP World Visit enrollment, and then four major championships (giving Garcia qualifies for all of them).
Garcia has lifetime eligibility of The Experts having slipped on the green coat at well known Augusta National in 2017.
The Spaniard told Shiels in a commonplace season when he was playing a blended plan on both the European Visit and PGA Visit, he would have competed in 27 events.
But with less competitive golf on his hands these days, and before long to be back within the overlap on the DP World Visit, Garcia is hopeful he can discover his way into an 11th Ryder Glass team.
Garcia said:
“I want to give myself the most excellent plausibility for it [of playing the Ryder Cup]. Only playing a handful events, it is not simple to form it unless you are doing super, super well. But I figure at the conclusion of the day on the off chance that I am qualified, they see I am making the effort and I do well in LIV and I am steady at that point at slightest ideally I can be considered, not as it were since of my diversion but since of what I can bring to the group, and my history within the event.”
Garcia, proprietor of a record 28.5 points at the Ryder Cup, told Shiels he isn’t however considering almost being a future Ryder Container captain.
He said:
“At the minute I am not considering approximately Ryder Container captaincy. I feel like I can still bring a part as a player but yes, obviously it could be a possibility, we’ll see what happens.”
The Rick Shiels Golf Appear, which to begin with propelled in November 2019, has presently amassed more than a quarter of a million endorsers on YouTube. Fronted by the world’s most observed online golf identity Shiels – whose original YouTube channel has 2.75m subscribers – the eponymous podcast first aired on the video sharing stage in February 2020 and has hence received 33m views with 5.7m hours of substance watched.
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