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\nFormer Masters champion Sergio Garcia said he intends to quit the DP World Tour after signing up for the Saudi-funded LIV Golf series, adding that he no longer feels loved on his home European circuit.
\nGarcia, 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.
\nMedia reports have linked newly crowed British Open champion Cameron Smith and European Ryder Cup captain Henrik Stenson among other players with the controversial and highly lucrative series.
\n\u201cI 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,\u201d Garcia told Spanish reporters after the Open on Sunday.
\n\u201cI 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.
\n\u201cIf I cannot play any more major that\u2019s 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\u2019t be selected.\u201d
\nGarcia\u2019s 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\u2019s Public Investment Fund (PIF).
\nCritics say the new series amounts to blatant \u2018sportswashing\u2019 by a nation trying to improve its reputation in light of its history of human rights abuses.
\n\u201cWhen Thomas Bjorn \u2013 former Ryder Cup captain \u2013 came to the BMW Championship and told us: \u2018We don\u2019t love any of you and all players say so\u2019… I already have an age and had enough suffering to be enduring nonsense like that,\u201d Garcia added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
St Andrews Former Masters champion Sergio Garcia said he intends to quit the DP World Tour after signing up for the Saudi-funded LIV Golf series, adding that he no longer feels loved on his home European circuit. Garcia, who resigned his PGA membership to play in the LIV series, will be ineligible for future Ryder […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-272152","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-sports"],"yoast_head":"\n