{"id":781595,"date":"2026-07-06T00:34:12","date_gmt":"2026-07-06T00:34:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/781595\/"},"modified":"2026-07-06T00:34:12","modified_gmt":"2026-07-06T00:34:12","slug":"chacarra-siblings-win-within-a-week-of-each-other-and-its-not-the-first-time-its-happened-australian-golf-digest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/781595\/","title":{"rendered":"Chacarra siblings win within a week of each other \u2013 and it\u2019s not the first time it\u2019s happened \u2013 Australian Golf Digest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[Photos: Mark Runnacles]<\/p>\n<p>Carolina Chacarra collected her first professional victory on the Ladies European Tour at the Hulencourt Women\u2019s Open. The 23-year-old from Spain shot a final-round 68 in Belgium to top Australia\u2019s Kelsey Bennett by three shots.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s a huge victory for the rookie who has both LPGA and LET status. She now has qualified for the Women\u2019s Scottish Open and the AIG Women\u2019s Open.<\/p>\n<p>RELATED: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.australiangolfdigest.com.au\/excitable-eugenio-chacarra-wins-italy-qualifies-british-one-step-close-to-pga-tour-2206\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The excitable Eugenio Chacarra wins in Italy, qualifies for The Open and is one step closer to the PGA Tour<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was definitely nervous, especially the last three holes,\u201d Chacarra said. \u201cI had a little bit of adrenaline so I was telling my caddie we needed to take some metres off the yardage. But it was great. My goal was just to enjoy the week and try to get into the Scottish Open. So to win is amazing and I\u2019m very happy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Carolina Chacarra\u2019s winning moment \ud83c\udfc6<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/hashtag\/HulencourtWomensOpen?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow\">#HulencourtWomensOpen<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/BTf8sU1kqq\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/BTf8sU1kqq<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Ladies European Tour (@LETgolf) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/LETgolf\/status\/2073805582138577301?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow\">July 5, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p>It also meant that the Chacarra siblings have collected professional titles in consecutive weeks. Just seven days ago, Chacarra\u2019s older brother Eugenio shot 65-64 on the weekend of the Italian Open on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.australiangolfdigest.com.au\/excitable-eugenio-chacarra-wins-italy-qualifies-british-one-step-close-to-pga-tour-2206\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">DP World Tour to easily win<\/a> by five shots. It was his fifth pro title, which includes one on LIV Golf, one on the Asian Tour and three in Europe.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s been a great few weeks,\u201d Carolina said. \u201cLife is treating us amazing. My brother is my inspiration and to see him win gave me lots of momentum to keep going and try to win myself. I\u2019m very happy. I\u2019m super-excited for the next month. It definitely changes my calendar, but it\u2019s always great to play a major. I\u2019m very excited and can\u2019t wait to be there.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Golf Digest chronicled the brother-sister duo four years ago when both were in college \u2013 Eugenio at Oklahoma State and Carolina at Wake Forest. In that piece both had just won their first college titles within, get this, only three days of each other. Eugenio shot a final-round, 10-under 62 to win the Amer Ari Invitational in Hawaii. Carolina then came along and also shot 10-under 62 to capture the UCF Challenge in Orlando.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEvery time one of us wins it pushes us when we have another tournament, and we try to emulate each other,\u201d Eugenio told Golf Digest. \u201cWhen I won the Campeonato de Espa\u00f1a 18-and-under division in 2018, two weeks later Carolina won the Campeonato de Espa\u00f1a 16-and-under. We have success when we see the other win.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen we go to the course, we\u2019re playing for something, whether it\u2019s having to clean the clubs or drive the car home. We like putting some pressure on the line.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>While there was pressure for each during their respective Sunday runs the final margins for both were not particularly close.<\/p>\n<p>Eugenio, 26, made five birdies and an eagle in Italy to shoot a bogey-free 64 and earn a five-shot victory over Matt Wallace, earning him a spot in the the Open Championship for the first time.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ve dreamed of playing it, always,\u201d he said. \u201cI\u2019ve watched Seve [Ballesteros] win British Opens. I\u2019ve watched it on TV since I was little. Excited to be out there. It\u2019s now time to celebrate and then we focus on that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/golfdigest.sports.sndimg.com\/content\/dam\/images\/golfdigest\/fullset\/2026\/7\/carolina-chacarra-2026-2.jpg.rend.hgtvcom.966.690.suffix\/1783269696206.jpeg\" alt=\"https:\/\/www.golfdigest.com\/content\/dam\/images\/golfdigest\/fullset\/2026\/7\/carolina-chacarra-2026-2.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Eugenio\u2019s celebration now will probably reach into its second week after his sister\u2019s three-shot win at the Hulencourt Women\u2019s Open. Carolina <a href=\"https:\/\/www.australiangolfdigest.com.au\/kelsey-bennett-steers-clear-with-18-holes-remaining-at-ladies-european-tour-event-in-belgium\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">trailed Bennett by two shots to start the day<\/a> but slowly and quietly plodded her way through the round and made four birdies to shoot a bogey-free 68.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe day went great and I\u2019m so happy,\u201d she said. \u201cNo bogeys, some nice birdies, everything was great. My caddie [Ivan] talked about it at the beginning of the round about sticking to my process. We gave ourselves lots of chances on the back-nine.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s not the last time we\u2019ll be hearing from the Chacarras. And a reminder, the next time one of them wins, a victory for the other is probably not far behind.<\/p>\n<p>    <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"[Photos: Mark Runnacles] Carolina Chacarra collected her first professional victory on the Ladies European Tour at the Hulencourt&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":781596,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[566],"tags":[4225,64,63,369100,201235,755,138747,369101,369102,258338,28635,85],"class_list":["post-781595","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-golf","tag-article","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-carolina-chacarra","tag-eugenio-chacarra","tag-golf","tag-golf-digest","tag-hulencourt-golf-club","tag-hulencourt-womens-open","tag-kelsey-bennett","tag-ladies-european-tour","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/781595","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=781595"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/781595\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/781596"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=781595"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=781595"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=781595"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}