{"id":767152,"date":"2026-06-28T17:10:27","date_gmt":"2026-06-28T17:10:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/767152\/"},"modified":"2026-06-28T17:10:27","modified_gmt":"2026-06-28T17:10:27","slug":"chacarra-wins-italian-open-for-2nd-straight-european-tour-title-and-a-place-in-british-open","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/767152\/","title":{"rendered":"Chacarra wins Italian Open for 2nd straight European tour title and a place in British Open"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">FIANO, Italy (AP) \u2014 Eugenio Chacarra captured a second straight title on the European tour by winning the Italian Open by five shots on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The 26-year-old Spaniard got an extra reward \u2014 a spot in the British Open taking place next month at Royal Birkdale. It will be his debut in golf&#8217;s oldest major.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cI\u2019m very excited. I\u2019ve never played there,&#8221; Chacarra said. &#8220;I\u2019ve always dreamed of playing it and been watching on TV since I was little. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">&#8220;Excited to be out there, now it\u2019s time to celebrate and then we can focus on that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Chacarra shot 7-under 64 and finished on 24-under par for the week. Matt Wallace (67) was alone in second place, a shot ahead of Joaqu\u00edn Niemann.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cI\u2019m feeling great, winning\u2019s always fun but that\u2019s what we work for. I\u2019m very proud of myself,\u201d Chacarra said. \u201cIt was a good fight, two world-class players \u2014 probably two of the best players in the world.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cThat\u2019s what I\u2019ve been dreaming of since I was little, to play against those kind of players down the stretch and I\u2019m very proud of how I played and how I managed myself today &#8230; I want to be one of the best players in professional golf so that\u2019s what we\u2019re working for.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Chacarra won the KLM Open at the start of June.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">___<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">AP golf: https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/golf<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The Associated Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"FIANO, Italy (AP) \u2014 Eugenio Chacarra captured a second straight title on the European tour by winning the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":767153,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[443],"tags":[49,48,622,82],"class_list":["post-767152","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-golf","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-golf","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/767152","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=767152"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/767152\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/767153"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=767152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=767152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=767152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}