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Garcia, who resigned his PGA membership to play in the LIV
series, will be ineligible for future Ryder Cups if he quits the
DP World Tour.
Media reports have linked newly crowed British Open champion
Cameron Smith and European Ryder Cup captain Henrik Stenson
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"I am quite clear about what I am going to do with the European
circuit. Probably leave it. I want to play where I feel loved
and right now in the European Tour I am not feeling loved,"
Garcia told Spanish reporters after the Open on Sunday.
"I am very happy with what I have achieved, and I am going to
try to enjoy it. I will play less and will spend more time at
home.
"If I cannot play any more major that's the way it is, but it is
not something that bothers me a lot. I am feeling sad because of
the Ryder Cup but right now in the way I am playing I won't be
selected."
Garcia's former European Ryder Cup captain Thomas Bjorn has been
an outspoken critic of LIV Golf and the players who have jumped
ship to breakaway circuit bankrolled by Saudi Arabia's Public
Investment Fund (PIF).
Critics say the new series amounts to blatant 'sportswashing' by
a nation trying to improve its reputation in light of its
history of human rights abuses.
"When Thomas Bjorn – former Ryder Cup captain – came to the BMW
Championship and told us: 'We don't love any of you and all
players say so'... I already have an age and had enough
suffering to be enduring nonsense like that," Garcia added.
"That's not pretty. I have given more than half my life to the
European Tour and I wanted to continue playing it, but I am not
going to be where they don't want me.
"It is very sad to receive such treatment for a personal and
professional decision... I feel sorry for the Ryder Cup, my
resignation is not official, but I'm going to make it effective.
"I have what I have and I am very happy with it and I want to
enjoy it to the fullest. I will play less, I will be more at
home."
(Reporting by Hritika Sharma in HyderabadEditing by Christian
Radnedge)
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