Sergio Garcia Back on DP World Tour

Garcia had been vocal and hopeful from the day he signed with LIV that he would be able to play on the European Ryder Cup team.

At the first LIV event at the Centurion Club in June 2022, Garcia explained that he was a European and wanted to keep his card and still be eligible for the Ryder Cup.

“I love the European Tour; I played it for 23 years; even though I played on the PGA Tour, I always made sure that I kept my membership in Europe because I love The European Tour, and that's one of the reasons why I wanted to stay a member of the European Tour,” Garcia said. “And obviously, we're going to have to wait and see what the European Tour does. But I definitely would like to keep my membership there, play at least my minimum, and you know, get my -- as good a chance as I can to make The Ryder Cup Team because I love that event. But I guess we'll see. We'll wait and see what happens over there.”

At the Masters in April of 2023, Garcia was again asked about the Ryder Cup.

Since his statements of desire in 2022, Garcia’s potential spot on the team has waned as the DP World Tour and Captain Luke Donald seem to move in opposite directions.

At the Masters in April 2023, Garcia talked about his Ryder Cup future.

“I can only do what I can do, and that is to play the tournaments I can play, try to play them the best way possible, and then everything else is out of my hands,” Garcia said of playing on the Ryder Cup team in Rome. “So the decisions if we can get picked or will get picked or anything like that, it's not going to come down to me. It's going to come down to my game and if the captain, Luke, thinks that I'm good enough. We'll see.”

However, soon after the Masters, after a discussion with Captain Luke Donald, it became clear to Garcia that he would not be on the team in Rome, so he gave up his membership on May 3.

A couple of weeks later, Garcia commented on his discussion with Donald.

“I talked to him two or three weeks ago, obviously I had to make some decisions when it comes down to the DP World Tour, and I wanted to see where I stood in regard to the Ryder Cup,” Garcia said at the LIV event in Washington on May 25^th. “Luke obviously is a good friend, but he made it -- I wanted him to be sincere and tell me the truth, and he pretty much told me that I had no chance. Obviously, that made my decision a little bit easier.”

Now, Garcia will have to balance his schedule between his LIV and DP World Tour commitments and get into the majors.

Garcia, who has been as high as second in the World Rankings but is currently 415^th, will likely need to qualify for both the U.S. Open and Open Championship, which he has done over the last couple of years.

“We chatted on phone a couple weeks ago, . You know, he's certainly very interested in doing that,” Donald said at the Ryder Cup Year Out last month in New York. “He understands everything that's involved, and again, the decision has to go to him, whether he's prepared to do all that. But certainly, we've had that discussion, yes.”