{"id":88790,"date":"2025-07-24T14:02:12","date_gmt":"2025-07-24T14:02:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/88790\/"},"modified":"2025-07-24T14:02:12","modified_gmt":"2025-07-24T14:02:12","slug":"rahm-sergio-garcia-would-be-great-ryder-cup-captain-in-spain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/88790\/","title":{"rendered":"Rahm &#8212; Sergio Garcia would be great Ryder Cup captain in Spain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jul 23, 2025, 10:35 PM ET<\/p>\n<p><a data-player-guid=\"f7192f24-1537-e91b-de6f-3548d5989626\" href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/golf\/player\/_\/id\/9780\/jon-rahm\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jon Rahm<\/a> already has thoughts on which golfer should captain Team Europe at the 2031 Ryder Cup.<\/p>\n<p>With Ryder Cup officials revealing Tuesday that Spain&#8217;s Camiral Golf Resort will host the 2031 competition, Rahm believes countryman <a data-player-guid=\"fc44a867-4815-2a0b-f86a-fe55e86d3311\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/golf\/player\/_\/id\/158\/sergio-garcia\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sergio Garcia<\/a> makes sense as Team Europe&#8217;s captain. The only other time the country hosted the Ryder Cup, Spain&#8217;s <a data-player-guid=\"d75021d7-9ab1-7824-f571-4ad75d804d47\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/golf\/player\/_\/id\/20\/seve-ballesteros\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Seve Ballesteros<\/a> captained his side to victory in 1997 at Valderrama.<\/p>\n<p>Editor&#8217;s Picks<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a name=\"&amp;lpos=story:editorspicks:inline:1\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/golf\/story\/_\/id\/45798263\/ryder-cup-returning-spain-2nd-2031-camiral\" class=\"img-link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/r118794_2_1296x1296_1-1.jpg&#038;w=130&#038;h=130&#038;scale=crop&#038;location=center.jpeg\" width=\"65\" height=\"65\"\/><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&#8220;I think there&#8217;s something to say about possibly having, obviously, a local captain,&#8221; Rahm said Wednesday while previewing this week&#8217;s LIV Golf United Kingdom tournament.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I think it would do wonders for the crowd. If history shows us anything, and it&#8217;s very hard to compare anybody to Seve, but I&#8217;ve only heard stories about what that Ryder Cup was like. I would say, if possible, I think that&#8217;s a very obvious good choice to have Sergio be a part of that one.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The 45-year-old Garcia ranks among the greatest performers in Ryder Cup annals. In 10 competitions from 1999 to 2021, he delivered a 25-13-7 record in singles matches, and no one has equaled his 28.5 points earned.<\/p>\n<p>And he could add to that if captain <a data-player-guid=\"cab4b4c6-2fde-c332-69aa-4c0093f316de\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/golf\/player\/_\/id\/601\/luke-donald\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Luke Donald<\/a> selects him for this year&#8217;s Ryder Cup at Bethpage Black in New York.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I think that I can bring things to the team that &#8212; to any team that would probably need it,&#8221; Garcia told reporters after making the cut at last week&#8217;s Open Championship. &#8220;Obviously, at the end of the day, he&#8217;s going to make whatever he thinks is the best decision for him and his team, at the end of the day. So, we&#8217;ll see.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jul 23, 2025, 10:35 PM ET Jon Rahm already has thoughts on which golfer should captain Team Europe&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":88791,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[1430,62,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-88790","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-golf","8":"tag-golf","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-united-states","11":"tag-unitedstates","12":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114908584342608782","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88790","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=88790"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88790\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/88791"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88790"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88790"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88790"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}