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Eugenio Chacarra is one half of a successful brother-sister duo. David Cannon, Getty Images<\/p>\n\t\t\t\tEugenio Chacarra is one half of a successful brother-sister duo. David Cannon, Getty Images<\/p>\n
LYTHAM ST ANNES, ENGLAND | It\u2019s not unusual for golfers to credit family and friends in the aftermath of victories, but every now and again that impact comes from inside rather than outside the ropes.<\/p>\n
Back in 2004, for example, the unheralded Scott Drummond won the Volvo PGA Championship. For most it was an outlandish result \u2013 indeed, it was the only top-five finish of his entire DP World Tour career.<\/p>\n
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Carolina Chacarra and her brother have made a habit of winning.
Amy Lemus, NurPhoto via Getty Images<\/p>\n
For his friend Simon Khan, however, it was inspiration because a week later he won the Wales Open (and it, too, was his first win on a main tour).<\/p>\n
Five years later France\u2019s Jade Schaeffer claimed her first victory on the Ladies European Tour, the Ladies German Open.<\/p>\n
A week later Fran\u00e7ois Calmels, her boyfriend and later her husband, won the Telenet Trophy \u2013 his first Challenge Tour triumph.<\/p>\n
Friends \u2013 tick.<\/p>\n
Partners \u2013 tick.<\/p>\n
So what about brothers and sisters?<\/p>\n
Meet Eugenio and Carolina Chacarra, the Spaniards who have made sibling inspiration a habit rather than a one-off.<\/p>\n
In 2017 Carolina won the Campeonato Junior de Madrid late in the year. Two weeks later Eugenio landed the Grand Prix des Landes in France.<\/p>\n
A year later Eugenio won the 18-and-under division in the Campeonato de Espa\u00f1a. Two weeks later Carolina claimed the 16-and-under division.<\/p>\n
At the start of 2022, at Oklahoma State, Eugenio carded a final round 10-under 62 to win the Amer Ari Invitational.<\/p>\n
A week later Carolina, at Wake Forest, shot her own 10-under 62 to land the UCF Challenge in Orlando, and in her next start also won the Darius Rucker Intercollegiate.<\/p>\n
Six days after Eugenio won his first DP World Tour event at the 2025 Hero Indian Open, he flew across the world to Georgia to watch Carolina compete and finish T9 in the final round of the Augusta National Women\u2019s Amateur.<\/p>\n Earlier this summer the mutual inspiration began anew.<\/p>\n Eugenio, now 26, kicked it off by claiming back-to-back triumphs on the DP World Tour, the KLM and Italian opens \u2013 the fourth and fifth worldwide victories of a professional career that started with LIV Golf.<\/p>\n A week later Carolina, who is 23 and joined the paid ranks at the end of last year, recorded her maiden LET victory at the Hulencourt Women\u2019s Open in Belgium.<\/p>\n It is a remarkable catalogue of golfing kinship and the pair share something else: a straightforward nature.<\/p>\n Consider when GGP spoke to Eugenio after the third round of this month\u2019s Open Championship at Royal Birkdale.<\/p>\n \u201cHola Eugenio, me llamo Matt Cooper,\u201d your correspondent started by way of introduction.<\/p>\n \u201cHola Matt,\u201d he responded. \u201cIt is easier we speak in English, no?\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cIt is true. We have a lot of success when we see the other win. We notice what we are both doing. We like to push each other.\u201d \u2013 Eugenio Chacarra<\/p>\n And so we were away, discussing, in an uncomplicated fashion that resembles his golf, a remarkable relationship.<\/p>\n \u201cIt is true,\u201d he said. \u201cWe have a lot of success when we see the other win. We notice what we are both doing. We like to push each other.<\/p>\n \u201cEven when we play at home, we have a prize. It might be cleaning the clubs or driving home. We like creating pressure.<\/p>\n \u201cI\u2019m super proud of Carolina and her latest win. She works really hard and she\u2019s a big talent. It\u2019s nice that she\u2019s having success and hopefully she can keep playing good.\u201d<\/p>\n Was golf always a family affair?<\/p>\n \u201cNot really,\u201d he said. \u201cMy parents were not golfers. My father played tennis and my mother is not really interested in sport.<\/p>\n \u201cWe started because my grandpa [also Eugenio] used to play, that\u2019s how we got into golf. But I played a lot of sports in school, especially soccer, before I settled on golf. Now, it is my job and it is her job, too.\u201d<\/p>\n \t\t\t\t \t\t\t\t The brother-sister combination have a knack for coming up big at nearly the same time.<\/p>\n Carolina was at Royal Birkdale to watch as her brother completed a T46 finish and big brother said he was hoping to return the favour at this week\u2019s AIG Women\u2019s Open at Royal Lytham & St Annes. \u201cI think she can play really good because links golf is a good fit for her,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n Ahead of the first round at Lytham, Carolina admitted that being outside the ropes was an unusual experience.<\/p>\n \u201cIt\u2019s definitely more exhausting walking 18 as a spectator,\u201d she said with a laugh. \u201cWalking 18 holes on the fairways and greens is easy compared to hiking up dunes. It\u2019s shorter too. There\u2019s also so much waiting and trying to see balls.<\/p>\n \u201cIt\u2019s quite stressful. You feel so much more in control when you\u2019re playing.<\/p>\n \u201cI learned a lot at Birkdale but it was also a reminder that the men play a very different game to us. They hit it so far and they can hit 6-irons out of the rough like it\u2019s nothing.\u201d<\/p>\n There is, however, plenty Carolina takes from her older brother.<\/p>\n \u201cWatching him achieve his dreams and goals really gives me the strength to keep believing in mine,\u201d she said. \u201cWe also talk every day so I\u2019m getting great insight from him.<\/p>\n \u201cI\u2019ve always wanted to do what my older brother was doing. There\u2019s no doubt that I took up golf because of him and he\u2019s the main reason why I kept playing. It\u2019s been a great summer for us. Life has been good. I\u2019m excited for this week.\u201d \u2013 Carolina Chacarra<\/p>\n \u201cHe understands the little things and the little details that can go through a player\u2019s mind that not everyone from the outside can understand.<\/p>\n \u201cI\u2019ve always wanted to do what my older brother was doing. There\u2019s no doubt that I took up golf because of him and he\u2019s the main reason why I kept playing.<\/p>\n \u201cIt\u2019s been a great summer for us. Life has been good. I\u2019m excited for this week.\u201d<\/p>\n With that she was off, but not before shouting a cheery farewell to her practice-round partner and close friend Carla Tejedo Mulet, wishing her luck for the week and saying she hoped to see her again late on Sunday afternoon on the first tee.<\/p>\n The pair have been close since they were youngsters and are rookies together this year on the LPGA Tour.<\/p>\n \u201cWe played together for Team Spain and played a bunch of European Team Championships together,\u201d Carolina said.<\/p>\n \u201cWe feel really comfortable on the course and every town, every club, every course is new to us this year. Being rookies together is a real help \u2013 it would have been so different on my own.\u201d<\/p>\n The pair finished T12 in the Dow Championship, Chacarra\u2019s best LPGA finish. After opening with a 75 at Lytham on Thursday, Carolina faced a battle to make the cut in the afternoon draw on Friday.<\/p>\n Family and friends. One way or another Carolina Chacarra is getting great support this year.<\/p>\n Gallery Photos: Andrew Wevers, Getty Images; and Luke Walker, Getty Images<\/p>\n TEE TIMES<\/a> | LEADERBOARD<\/a><\/p>\n \u00a9 2026 Global Golf Post LLC<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Eugenio Chacarra is one half of a successful brother-sister duo. 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