Garcia: “Hopefully If I Play Really, Really Well I Can Make The Ryder Cup Team On My Own”.

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Super Spaniard Sergio Garcia has paid his million Pound fine and reckons if he plays well enough in the Ryder Cup qualifying events he could play his way automatically into Luke Donald’s defending European Ryder Cup team..

It is a big ask for the LIV star for Europe’s winningest Ryder Cup player while the now 45-year-old needs to only tee-up in one more Ryder Cup and he matches the most number of team caps of Nick Faldo and Lee Westwood.

And helping Garcia’s Bethpage Park Black team goal is that he’s currently exempt for three of the four majors of 2025 firstly being a past Masters Champion while he had received invitations to tee-up in May’s PGA Championship Quail Hollow and the following month’s US Open at Oakmont.

Speaking before the first LIV Golf event of the season under floodlights in Riyadh, Garcia told Al Arabiya: “I love the Ryder Cup. Everyone knows that. It’s my favourite event of the year in golf. I think that we’re members of the European Tour again, of the DP World Tour. That was the first criteria to be eligible to be a part of the Ryder Cup.

“Now it’s going to depend on how I play throughout the year. And hopefully, with the amount of tournaments that I’m going to play, hopefully if I play really, really well I can make it on my own.

“If not, then obviously I will depend on a pick from the captain from Luke Donald. But we’ll see. The only thing I can do is play the best golf that I can play and then see where that kind of puts me.

“I would love to be playing still. Obviously there have been some talks or there were some talks about maybe the possibility of me being the captain there. But obviously my focus as of now is on playing and hopefully making a few more Ryder Cups if my game is good enough.

“And when that doesn’t happen, then we can try to focus on other things. But I don’t want to think about that until I know that I’m not good enough to be a part of it.”

Garcia had resigned his DP World Tour membership in May 2023 after an arbitration panel found in favour of the DP World Tour and ratified its right to fine and ban players who competed in LIV Golf events without permission.

Of note, Garcia spoke with GolfByTourMiss late last year and advised he is hoping to play a first DP World Tour in well over two years in July’s BMW International Open in Munich.



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