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<\/p>\nSergio Garc\u00eda has confirmed his interest in becoming Europe\u2019s Ryder Cup captain after being backed by Jon Rahm to lead the side in Spain.<\/p>\n
Rahm named Garc\u00eda on Wednesday as the ideal candidate to captain Europe when the contest against the United States returns to Spain in 2031 for the first time in 34 years.<\/p>\n
Garc\u00eda, Europe\u2019s record Ryder Cup points scorer, wants the job at some point and the hosting of the event by the Camiral Resort in Girona appears to be the perfect fit.<\/p>\n
\u201cYes, I would love to be a Ryder Cup captain. I don\u2019t know when because you never know what might happen,\u201d Garc\u00eda said.<\/p>\n
\u201cObviously Spain is a possibility but I don\u2019t want to get ahead of myself or anything like that until the right time comes. It\u2019s still six years away and you never know where you\u2019re going to be at that time in your life or health-wise. But the Ryder Cup means so much to me and to be able to host another Ryder Cup in Spain is a tremendous honour.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe Ryder Cup always has this special flavour, no matter where it is but obviously when it\u2019s in your home country, it\u2019s even sweeter. It\u2019s great news and I know that everyone is very, very excited.\u201d<\/p>\n
The last time the event was staged in Spain \u2014 at Valderrama in 1997 \u2014 it was another Spanish legend in Seve Ballesteros who captained Europe to victory. Rahm believes the timing would be ideal for Garc\u00eda, who will be 51 in 2031, to emulate his golfing hero.<\/p>\n
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Rahm said naming Garc\u00eda as captain would \u201cdo wonders\u201d for the Spanish crowd<\/p>\n
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\u201cIt\u2019s very hard to compare anybody to Seve, and I\u2019ve only heard stories about what that Ryder Cup was like, but I think that it\u2019s a very obvious good choice to have Sergio be a part of this one,\u201d Rahm said. \u201cThere\u2019s something to say about having a local captain. I think it would do wonders for the crowd.\u201d <\/p>\n
The complication is that Garc\u00eda, who is preparing for Friday\u2019s LIV Golf event at the JCB Club in Staffordshire, remains part of the Saudi-backed circuit.<\/p>\n
When Henrik Stenson was appointed as Europe\u2019s captain for the last Ryder Cup in Rome he was subsequently stripped of the role over his LIV links. The DP World Tour, which makes the appointment, then ruled that players who had resigned their membership to switch to LIV had rendered themselves ineligible for future captaincy.<\/p>\n
However with a thawing of tensions \u2014 albeit no final peace accord between golf\u2019s rival factions \u2014 Garc\u00eda is hopeful their stance will soften.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe LIV guys were never against doing those roles. We just got put in a position where we couldn\u2019t,\u201d he said. \u201cWe weren\u2019t allowed and that was obviously very sad for Henrik and a few possible captains that are here. That\u2019s obviously much better now and I\u2019m sure will keep getting better as time goes by.\u201d<\/p>\n
The Bethpage Black course in New York will host this year\u2019s Ryder Cup in September, before Adare Manor in Co Limerick hosts the 2027 event.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sergio Garc\u00eda has confirmed his interest in becoming Europe\u2019s Ryder Cup captain after being backed by Jon Rahm…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":20132,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[5904,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-20131","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-golf","tag-golf","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20131","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20131"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20131\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20132"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20131"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20131"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20131"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}