Golf-Rahm feels LIV's Garcia should be eligible for Ryder Cup

FILE PHOTO: Golf - The 2020 Ryder Cup - Whistling Straits, Sheboygan, Wisconsin, U.S. - September 25, 2021 Team Europe's Jon Rahm and Team Europe's Sergio Garcia celebrate on the 17th green after winning the match during the Foursomes resulting in Garcia holding the record of most matches won in Ryder Cup history REUTERS/Brian Snyder/File Photo

(Reuters) - The Ryder Cup should feature the best players and it should not matter whether some have decided to join LIV Golf, Jon Rahm said as he expressed sadness that Spanish compatriot Sergio Garcia would be absent from this year's competition.

Garcia is Europe's all-time record points scorer and went undefeated in the three matches he played with Rahm at the 2021 edition of the biennial event where the United States rolled to an emphatic victory at Whistling Straits.