Ian Poulter reacts to Jon Rahm's support for Garcia: Politics aside, it's just golf

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Ian Poulter, Sergio Garcia, and Lee Westwood resigned from the DP World Tour and lost their place in the Ryder Cup team. The European team will play without them, and it will be a big handicap for them. A lot of reaction followed the information that these three great golfers will not play in Rome this year.

Jon Rahm is one of the golfers who decided to support Sergio Garcia and is sad that he will not be with the team in September and October this year. Ian Poulter immediately sent a clear message via Twitter in which he supported Rahm: "The only person who gets it.

It’s just golf.. politics aside it’s just golf,"- Poulter wrote on Twitter.

Jon Rahm and his speech

In his speech, Jon Rahm expressed his dissatisfaction with the fact that Garcia will not have the right to perform.

Rahm believes that the best should play at the Ryder Cup, regardless of their affiliation with any Tour. Unfortunately, the European team will try to achieve its goal without the most important players. “I'm going to miss him.

We had a great partnership at Whistling Straits," -Rahm said. "I'm going to mention history again one more time. A Spanish duo in the Ryder Cup I think to me is embedded into the roots of the Ryder Cup. Look with Seve and Ollie were able to do throughout their partnership, right.

So it's a little sad to me that politics have gotten in the way of such a beautiful event. 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.

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”.