Former LIV Golf winner Eugenio Chacarra is popping the web page.
The 24-year-old Chacarra, whose contract with Fireballs GC was not renewed for this upcoming season, selected to not compete in final month’s LIV Promotions occasion, just lately telling Flushing It Golf that he was annoyed by LIV’s lack of ability to safe world-ranking factors or pathways into the key championships, and that his new objective is to earn his PGA Tour card.
“Once I joined LIV, they promised OWGR [points] and majors,” Chacarra stated. “However it didn’t occur. I trusted them.”
A fiery flusher from Madrid, Chacarra signed with LIV because the world’s second-ranked novice in June 2022, foregoing a fifth season at Oklahoma State, and he gained in simply his fifth begin with the Saudi-backed circuit, in Bangkok. Whereas he did not crack the highest 30 in particular person factors in every of the previous two seasons on LIV and was not signed by one other crew this offseason, he’s had some success on the Asian Tour with 5 top-6 finishes since turning professional, together with a win eventually yr’s St. Andrews Bay Championship. He made his main debut eventually summer time’s U.S. Open after getting by means of remaining qualifying.
Chacarra is at present ranked No. 325 within the Official World Golf Rating, 319 spots behind Ludvig Aberg, who turned professional that very same summer time. Chacarra stated, in his eyes, there are parallels between their younger professional careers; it’s simply that Aberg has obtained extra rewards (main exemptions and final yr’s Ryder Cup berth amongst them) and extra consideration.
“On LIV, I’m the one younger man who’s gained, and so they by no means discuss me,” Chacarra provides. “They at all times discuss the identical guys.”
In the meantime, LIV pulled its bid for OWGR recognition final March after beforehand being denied. It additionally diminished the variety of playing cards out there by way of its qualifying event to just one and didn’t even promote the highest performer from the Asian Tour’s Worldwide Collection as Joaquin Niemann gained the season-ending Saudi Worldwide to high that factors race.
“I see what it’s prefer to win on the PGA Tour and the way your life modifications, the way you get main entry and rating factors,” Chacarra defined in his interview with Flushing It. “On LIV, nothing modifications; there’s solely cash. It doesn’t matter in case you end thirtieth or first, solely cash. I’m not a man who desires more cash. What’s going to change my life is taking part in in Hawaii and qualifying for the majors, qualifying for the Masters, the Ryder Cup.”
The Spanish outlet El Periodi Golf additionally spoke with Chacarra, whom it reported earned near $30 million in his three seasons on LIV. Chacarra stated in that interview that he “wasn’t fully glad.”
“It has nothing to do with the crew or the teammates, it was a query of motivation,” Chacarra stated. “I needed to play majors, play extra. In the long run, 14 weeks a yr isn’t sufficient for me.”
Although he’s by no means held PGA Tour standing of any variety, Chacarra is suspended from Tour-sanctioned competitors till Sept. 23. His ban would expire earlier than first stage of PGA Tour Q-College begins (Chacarra must be exempt by means of pre-qualifying as a result of he made a DP World Tour minimize final yr).
Within the interim, Chacarra will compete in Asia whereas in search of sponsor exemptions on the DP World Tour.
“I’m very grateful for what they’ve accomplished,” Chacarra added of LIV, “however my thoughts is totally different now, and I wish to get to what I used to be dreaming about once I was little. As a result of clearly LIV didn’t exist once I was rising up. I used to be watching Tiger Woods successful on the PGA Tour and I wish to try this.”
