{"id":116582,"date":"2025-09-03T11:23:06","date_gmt":"2025-09-03T11:23:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/116582\/"},"modified":"2025-09-03T11:23:06","modified_gmt":"2025-09-03T11:23:06","slug":"sergio-garcia-wont-play-irish-open-after-ryder-cup-omission","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/116582\/","title":{"rendered":"Sergio Garcia won’t play Irish Open after Ryder Cup omission"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sergio Garcia<\/a> has withdrawn from this week’s Irish Open, telling GolfMagic<\/a> that the sting of not being picked for the Ryder Cup led to his decision.<\/p>\n

The Spaniard was not among captain Luke Donald’s at-large picks for Team Europe ahead of its showdown against the United States at Bethpage Black later this month.<\/p>\n

Donald’s decision was not a huge surprise; Garcia had just one top-10 finish in his final eight LIV Golf events of the 2025 season.<\/p>\n

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But it still left some sting, according to the all-time-leading Ryder Cup points-getter and a 10-time participant in the competition.<\/p>\n

“I felt like I was so looking forward to being a part of that team, and so I felt like mentally, you know, mentally it was kind of tough (to play in the Irish Open),” Garcia told GolfMagic.<\/p>\n

“I didn’t want to go there and not be fully engaged in the tournament and stuff, so I just decided to take a little bit of time off and spend it with the family and do a couple of things, you know, some things outside of golf and just kind of reboot a little bit, recharge the batteries.”<\/p>\n

One of those things was visiting the US Open – the tennis version – as Garcia watched countryman Carlos Alcaraz beat Jiri Lehecka in the quarterfinals<\/a> on Tuesday.<\/p>\n

After the win, Alcaraz said he plans to play golf Wednesday with Garcia, the 2017 Masters champion.<\/p>\n

“He has to give me at least between 10 and 15 shots,” Alcaraz said. “It’s going to be great. I’m not that good, Sergio, come on.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sergio Garcia has withdrawn from this week’s Irish Open, telling GolfMagic that the sting of not being picked…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":116583,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[443],"tags":[49,48,622,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-116582","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-golf","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-golf","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116582","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=116582"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116582\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/116583"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=116582"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=116582"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=116582"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}