Any thoughts of Sir Nick Faldo heading to LIV Golf to do commentary after retiring from CBS last year can go out the window.
Faldo, who played in 11-straight Ryder Cups from 1977-97, said that European team stalwarts who have moved on to LIV Golf should not be eligible for the biennial tournament.
Faldo said in an interview with Sky Sports of the UK:
“They’re done. It’s a rival tour. If you work for a company for 20 years and you then leave to go to a rival company, I can promise you your picture won’t still be on the wall. You’ve moved on. Fine, off you go.”
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There are members of both teams who are a part of LIV Golf, such as Bryson DeChambeau and Brooks Kopeka for the U.S. squad, but Faldo is particularly talking about European players like Sergio Garcia, Ian Poulter, Lee Westwood, Martin Kaymer, and Graeme McDowell—not to mention fired ex-captain Henrik Stenson. He says now is the time for the team to move on.
“They’re all at the age where Europe needs to find a new breed of 25-year-olds that can play half a dozen or more Ryder Cups, and I think we’re going to have that.”
Faldo, who said of LIV Golf, “Their tour is meaningless,” was a longtime rival of LIV CEO Greg Norman on the course. Most famously, Faldo came from behind to overtake Norman at the 1996 Masters—a tournament that Norman was never able to win.
Technically, the European players remain eligible for Ryder Cup inclusion while a legal decision is pending on whether the DP World Tour can enforce a ban on LIV Golf pros, similar to how the PGA Tour has successfully done.
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