{"id":302407,"date":"2023-05-31T07:38:33","date_gmt":"2023-05-31T07:38:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=302407"},"modified":"2023-05-31T07:58:43","modified_gmt":"2023-05-31T07:58:43","slug":"rahms-sad-response-to-liv-bans-for-ryder-cup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=302407","title":{"rendered":"Rahm's 'sad' response to LIV bans for Ryder Cup"},"content":{"rendered":"

World No.2 Jon Rahm<\/a> has thrown his support behind LIV<\/a> golfers banned from the Ryder Cup \ufeffwith the tournament beginning in just under four months.<\/p>\n

Fellow Spaniard Sergio Garcia<\/a> will be absent from this year's edition, after he resigned from the European Tour in May<\/a>, having played in LIV tournaments.<\/p>\n

\ufeffGarcia and Rahm went undefeated in the three matches they played together in 2021 with the latter expressing his sadness at not having Europe's all-time record points scorer by his side.<\/p>\n

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"I'm going to miss him. We had a great partnership at Whistling Straits," he said ahead of this week.<\/p>\n

\"Jon<\/p>\n

"I'm going to mention history again one more time. A Spanish duo in the Ryder Cup … to me is embedded into the roots of the Ryder Cup. Look what Seve (Ballesteros) and (Jose Maria Olazabal) were able to do throughout their partnership, right.<\/p>\n

"So it's a little sad to me that politics have gotten in the way of such a beautiful event."<\/p>\n

In February, the DP World Tour won an arbitration case to suspend and fine players after they played in two LIV events without official releases.<\/p>\n

This coincided with Garcia asking European Ryder Cup captain Luke Donald, in the lead up to his resignation, whether he was a chance of making the team.<\/p>\n

\"Sergio<\/p>\n

Garcia was told he was "no chance".<\/p>\n

Despite the rules and regulations behind the decision, Rahm believes it's to the detriment of the tournament.<\/p>\n

"Again, it's the best Europeans against the best Americans, period. And whatever is going on, who is playing LIV and who is not playing LIV, to me, shouldn't matter," he said.<\/p>\n

"It's whoever is best suited to represent the European side. And I have a hard time to believe that the best player Europe has ever had, the most successful player Europe has had on the Ryder Cup, isn't fit to be on the team."<\/p>\n

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