Sergio García, with the Ryder Cup in the spotlight

Sergio garcia He secured a place in the top 30 of the FedEx Cup on Sunday, which opened the doors to the Tour Championship, which begins Thursday in Atlanta and which distributes a prize of $ 15 million to the winner. The top 10 in Baltimore will help the Castellón to try to be part of the European team for the Ryder Cup from September 24 to 26 in Kohler (Wisconsin).

Garcia, who was in contention for the BMW Championship title until it took three strokes to emerge from a bunker on the fifth hole of the fourth round, finished seven more strokes than the winner, but will participate in his first Tour Championship since 2017. , after finishing tied for sixth place after finishing Sunday with a record of 69 (-3).

This sixth place will help him in his goal of playing the Ryder Cup… “I have nothing to say or propose to Harrington (captain). I know he’s watching, he knows where I am and where my game is, I know where he is and it will be nice to have one more week in East Lake. Hopefully I can be in Whistling Straits, ”he said.

Regarding the BMW in Baltimore, he assured that “it is true that I got to a stroke of the leadership, but it was not very real, since they still had to go through those holes where I had birdie e eagle and they could do it too. I knew that with -21 I was not going to win, so I had to keep pushing and making birdies. Unfortunately it started the other way around and the double bogey of the 5 arrived. In any case, it was a great week and I think I showed a lot of heart in the last five holes ”, he added.

“It’s nice to play the FedEx Cup Final again. After last week the truth is that I put myself in a pretty difficult situation. Getting up after what happened on hole 5, keep fighting, with my head up, without lower your arms and finish the last three holes the way I did, with a birdie and two good recoveries on 16 and 18 is very nice ”.

Finally he acknowledged that Jon Rahm’s presence helped. “The only thing I thought after the 5th was to be positive, to continue enjoying the golf course. Obviously, Jon has been a lot of fun playing with. I was enjoying my game because it has been good all week. I knew that I just had to keep believing in me, what I could not is lower my arms and throw in the towel. It was nice to do it ”, he concluded.