MADRID, 17 Jul. (EUROPA PRESS) –
The Spanish golfer Sergio García announced this Sunday, after finishing the British Open, his intention to leave the European Tour as he “does not feel loved”, a decision considered by the player from Castellón in the absence of officially communicating it to the DP World Tour.
“I am quite clear about what I am going to do with the European Tour. Probably leave it. I sincerely want to play where they want me, on the European Tour I don’t feel loved right now”, he valued in the mixed zone of the Old Course of St. Andrews, at the end the ‘British’ with two strokes below par in the accumulated of the four days.
The one from Castellón has already broken its link with the American PGA to participate in the Saudi LIV Golf, a controversial new Circuit in conflict with the traditional ones. The British Open dispute, like the US Open last month, puts aside at times the open conflict and the crossing of statements between the players who chose to change sides and those who see it as a mistake.
The DP World Tour, formerly called the European Tour, and the PGA declared war on LIV Golf from its first stop in London, and last month expanded and strengthened their alliance.
Sergio García revealed an episode with the Danish Thomas Bjorn during the ‘BMW International Open’, who criticized several players for their decision to leave for the Super League. “He told us that they don’t love any of us. It’s not pretty. I’m already old enough and suffering to put up with nonsense like that,” he pointed out.
The abandonment of the Spaniard on the European Tour could leave him without the Ryder Cup, where he holds the all-time record for points. “I will play less and I will be more at home, if I don’t play ‘big’ then I don’t play them, I don’t care much either. But I feel a little sorry for the Ryder, but I’m not here to play it either”, he valued.