![Pinterest](https://pinterest.com/pin/create/button/?url=https://uknews.evprotec.com/liv-golf-rebel-sergio-garcia-opens-up-on-failed-attempt-to-pay-his-way-into-ryder-cup-team/&media=https://uknews.evprotec.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/0_GettyImages-1043499334.jpg&description=LIV Golf rebel Sergio Garcia saw a window of opportunity to force his way onto Luke Donald's European team for the Ryder Cup in Rome next week, but it was quickly slammed closed Sergio Garcia has spoken out after his last-ditch attempt to force his way into Europe's Ryder Cup team was shut down. The LIV Golf rebel is a legend of the tournament, winning more points than any other European player, but he will not be in the team that takes on the Americans at Marco Simone Golf & Country Club in Rome next week. In joining the Saudi Arabia-backed breakaway league in 2022, Garcia lost his DP World Tour membership, which is a requirement for any player to represent Europe in the Ryder Cup. But the plates of the golfing world continue to shift at pace, with the PGA Tour and LIV's backers deciding to join forces in recent months. Details, though, remain distinctly unclear and the landscape of professional golf in the months and years ahead is decidedly unclear. But there has certainly been a softening in the anti-LIV rhetoric from golf's leading powers and players. Garcia, the 2017 Masters champion, saw a window of opportunity to make his case for inclusion in the Ryder Cup, offering to rejoin the DP World Tour and pay up his £700,000 fines for joining LIV. However, the tour's chief executive Keith Pelley said it was not possible and the Spaniard has shared details from their conversation. "I called and asked him about the possibility of me being a member of the Tour again,' Garcia told i. 'I knew I had to be a member to have any possibility of being a part of the European team in Rome. That's what I wanted, if I paid all my fines and played the minimum number of tournaments required. I was willing to do both, though it would not be ideal because I would have had to play 10 out of 11 or 12 weeks (before the end of the season). For all the latest on news, politics, sports, and showbiz from the USA, go to The Mirror US . 'The answer was there was no chance. When he told me tha){kind=link}
LIV Golf rebel Sergio Garcia saw a window of opportunity to force his way onto Luke Donald’s European team for the Ryder Cup in Rome next week, but it was quickly slammed closed
Sergio Garcia has spoken out after his last-ditch attempt to force his way into Europe’s Ryder Cup team was shut down.
The LIV Golf rebel is a legend of the tournament, winning more points than any other European player, but he will not be in the team that takes on the Americans at Marco Simone Golf & Country Club in Rome next week.
In joining the Saudi Arabia-backed breakaway league in 2022, Garcia lost his DP World Tour membership, which is a requirement for any player to represent Europe in the Ryder Cup. But the plates of the golfing world continue to shift at pace, with the PGA Tour and LIV’s backers deciding to join forces in recent months.
Details, though, remain distinctly unclear and the landscape of professional golf in the months and years ahead is decidedly unclear. But there has certainly been a softening in the anti-LIV rhetoric from golf’s leading powers and players.