{"id":433966,"date":"2025-04-02T11:25:45","date_gmt":"2025-04-02T15:25:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/?p=433966"},"modified":"2025-04-23T16:40:04","modified_gmt":"2025-04-23T16:40:04","slug":"eugenio-chacarra-slams-liv-golf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/golf\/eugenio-chacarra-slams-liv-golf\/","title":{"rendered":"Eugenio Chacarra Slams LIV Golf While Trying For Tour Card"},"content":{"rendered":"

Once again in the midst of the PGA-LIV merger talks<\/a> stalling, there is another story of a LIV golfer making the switch like Laurie Canter<\/a>.\u00a0 Although still a hopeful to earning his tour card, Spanish golfer Eugenio Chacarra is making his stand after leaving LIV Golf and criticizing them heavily.\u00a0 As well as growing his career by earning himself a win during the DP World Tour.<\/p>\n

Chacarra On LIV Golf<\/h2>\n

Eugenio Chacarra\u2019s introduction to the world of pro golf was playing on LIV.\u00a0 He was in the no. 2 world amateur ranking when he joined LIV in 2022.\u00a0 He did find some success in the league; he managed to achieve victory in the 2022 Bangkok event.\u00a0 However, not everything was what it seemed.\u00a0 One major point of contention Chacarra had with the league was his position in the OWGR.\u00a0 In an interview with Flushing It<\/a>, Chacarra continued\u2026<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen I joined LIV they promised OWGR and majors. But it didn\u2019t happen. I trusted them. I was the first young guy, then the others came after I made the decision. But OWGR and majors still hasn\u2019t happened. I saw you last year when they pulled the bid. It\u2019s frustrating…\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

Chacarra\u2019s Not Feeling Too Accomplished<\/h2>\n

Despite Chacarra saying that he is grateful for his time on LIV Golf, he has plenty of other criticisms of the league.\u00a0 A major issue Chacarra has had is how he is not acknowledged despite having an event win under his belt so early into his career.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m a winner and I was never treated like a winner. On the PGA Tour, Ludvig Aberg has one win and I have one win on LIV. He has one win on the European Tour and I have one win on the International Series on the Asian Tour. So we have similar careers, but he has way more experience and plays way more big tournaments, but we have the same wins.\u00a0 We have performed similar,”<\/em> Chacarra said.\u00a0 “What tours I can play on, I have won. Same with him. But he\u2019s the number 6 player in the world and everyone talks about him. But on LIV, I\u2019m the only young guy who\u2019s won, and they never talk about me. They always talk about the same guys.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

This rings true to even casual viewers of the PGA.\u00a0 The roster of big names does have a solid lineup of regular names, usually champions who regularly get into the top 10 for events.\u00a0 However, newcomers semi-regularly make a scene with just their performance alone in events.\u00a0 Just recently, during the Players Championships, rookie Danny Walker <\/a>was already getting a solid base of support.\u00a0 He was only able to join the event as an alternate after Jason Day withdrew due to illness.<\/a><\/p>\n

It Comes Back To Money<\/h2>\n

Something that fans have always pointed to about LIV is that they believe after signing on, the golfers are only there for the money.\u00a0 Fans have been saying this about Dustin Johnson since he signed on.\u00a0 Chacarra\u2019s criticism here stems from how he just doesn\u2019t really care much for the money at all.\u00a0 Sure, it’s nice to be rich, but he\u2019s there for the sport itself.<\/p>\n

\u201cI see what it\u2019s like to win on the PGA Tour and how your life changes. How you get major access and ranking points. On LIV, nothing changes; there is only money. It doesn\u2019t matter if you finish thirtieth or first, only money. I\u2019m not a guy who wants more money.\u201d<\/p>\n

Chacarra\u2019s Aspirations This Year<\/h2>\n

Recently, Eugenio Chacarra won the DP World Tour\u2019s Hero Indian Open.\u00a0 He is planning on riding victories throughout the year and eventually earning his own PGA Tour Card by the end of the year.\u00a0 He plans on doing this through the Race to Dubai and is determined to do so.<\/p>\n

Main Photo Credit:\u00a0 \u00a9 Raymond Carlin III-Imagn Images<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Once again in the midst of the PGA-LIV merger talks stalling, there is another story of a LIV golfer making the switch like Laurie Canter.\u00a0 Although still a hopeful to earning his tour card, Spanish golfer Eugenio Chacarra is making his stand after leaving LIV Golf and criticizing them heavily.\u00a0 As well as growing his […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4860,"featured_media":433967,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"no","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[15,246,200,19],"tags":[337],"class_list":["post-433966","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-golf","category-golf-news","category-liv-golf","category-pga","tag-eugenio-chacarra"],"modified_by":"yobodev","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/433966","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4860"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=433966"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/433966\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/golf\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=433966"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=433966"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=433966"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}