MADRID, 8 Feb. (EUROPA PRESS) –
The English golfer Justin Rose does not believe that the Ryder Cup, given its importance and history, “will be devalued” this year if the players who have chosen to enroll in the new LIV Golf cannot participate in the teams from Europe and the United States.
The United States has already warned that among its 12 chosen there will be no player from this new and lucrative circuit that has attracted weight names such as Dustin Johnson, Brooks Koepka or Bryson DeChambeau, among others, while the European Circuit is pending arbitration. that will decide whether figures like the Spanish Sergio García or the Englishmen Lee Westwood and Ian Poulter can play the DP World Tour and be eligible for Luke Donald or not.
“There is so much strength in the Ryder that I don’t think it is devalued. People like to see Dustin Johnson, Bryson DeChambeau, Brooks Koepka, Sergio Garcia or Ian Poulter because they bring a lot of passion and we would surely miss them, but it is what it is. “Rose warned in statements ‘BBC Radio 5 Live’.
The winner of the US Open in 2013 and Olympic champion in Rio de Janeiro (Brazil) believes that the new circuit “is trying to bring a new idea and a rival product” to the more traditional ones such as the European or the American PGA, and that it he has to see how everyone “can fit together in this scenario.”
In this sense, he acknowledged that joining LIV Golf also crossed his mind, but that his “main obstacle” was the issue of what was happening with the world ranking points, his main way to be able to play mainly the ‘majors’. “So it became null and void, non-negotiable from my point of view,” he admitted.
On the other hand, and unlike other players such as the Northern Irishman Rory McIlroy, the Englishman confessed that he does not judge those who have left and with whom he has had a very good relationship such as the Swede Henrik Stenson, who lost the captaincy for this reason from Europe for this year’s Ryder Cup, or his compatriot Ian Poulter.
“‘Poults’ and Stenson have been my partners in a lot of Ryder Cup matches and we’ve won a lot of points together, so from that point of view, I will miss them. I still text and call the guys. Everyone can take their own decision, I don’t think badly of them for doing that and they are still my teammates. There are going to be consequences for that decision and obviously the sentences will determine if this is good or bad for them”, he commented.
Furthermore, Rose sees it as “a good thing from a Ryder Cup point of view” that the decision on whether or not the so-called ‘rebels’ can be chosen “will be made soon enough and whatever the outcome, there will be time for relationships heal.”