Sergio Garcia has withdrawn from this week's Irish Open at the K Club, citing disappointment at being overlooked for the European Ryder Cup team. The 45-year-old Spaniard, a record points-scorer in the competition's history, had hoped to earn a recall for the match at Bethpage Black but was not among Luke Donald's six wildcard picks.
Garcia, who has amassed 28.5 points in ten consecutive Ryder Cup appearances from 1999 to 2021, started the 2025 season strongly with a win in Hong Kong and top-ten finishes in Miami and Riyadh. However, his form tailed off, with no top-ten finishes in his final nine LIV Golf events and a missed cut at the BMW International Open on the DP World Tour.
Speaking to GolfMagic, Garcia said: “The call with Luke was fine but not the call I wanted. Now, the only thing I can do is support the team from home. I felt like I was so looking forward to being a part of that team, and so I felt like mentally it was kind of tough. I didn't want to go there and not be fully engaged in the tournament.”
Instead of competing in Ireland, Garcia plans to play golf with fellow Spaniard and tennis star Carlos Alcaraz in New York. Alcaraz, who reached the US Open semi-finals, revealed the plan after his quarter-final win, joking that Garcia would need to give him a handicap of 10 to 15 shots.
