\t\t\t\tEugenio Chacarra caused a stir with his bitter exit from LIV Golf. He\u2019s now explained why he lost motivation on the league\u2026<\/p>\n
Not many golfers have turned their back on LIV Golf since its inception in 2022.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Brooks Koepka, who walked out on his contract<\/a> with the breakaway league just before Christmas, is certainly the most high-profile player to jump ship and then jump ship again.\u00a0<\/p>\n But the five-time major champion\u2019s exit was described by LIV chief executive Scott O\u2019Neil as \u201camicably and mutually agreed\u201d.<\/p>\n The circumstances around Eugenio Chacarra\u2019s exit, however, were far from amicable.\u00a0<\/p>\n The Spaniard, who joined LIV in 2022 and won in the league\u2019s inaugural season, made a bitter departure at the end of the 2024 season \u2013 albeit $7 million richer<\/a> \u2013 as he cited \u201cbroken promises\u201d.\u00a0<\/p>\n Chacarra was not retained by Sergio Garcia\u2019s Fireballs GC team<\/a> after his three-year deal expired and then expressed his frustration that the rewards on the circuit were merely financial.\u00a0<\/p>\n Since then, the dust has settled and after playing almost a full season on the DP World Tour, Chacarra reflects on his time at LIV with mixed emotions.<\/p>\n \u201cI always said it was a great time of life,\u201d he told TG. \u201cI learned a lot, I played with great players, but I thought my time there was done. And I wanted to experience something else. I wanted to play more tournaments. I wanted to be playing every week, I wanted to fight for cuts, I wanted to fight for goals.<\/p>\n \u201cI have a lot of goals and I was losing a lot of motivation. I knew it was going to be difficult because I had a year\u2019s suspension on the PGA Tour for joining LIV, but thankfully I got a couple of sponsors\u2019 invites, had a chance to win in India, and I took it. Now I\u2019m focusing on new goals and hopefully I can get my PGA Tour card. That\u2019s what I\u2019ve been dreaming of since I was a kid.\u201d<\/p>\n Chacarra says LIV\u2019s failure to secure world ranking points<\/a> added to his disillusionment while competing on the league.<\/p>\n \u201cThey told me a lot of things that never really happened, and I don\u2019t know if it bothered me or not, but I lost motivation because of it,\u201d he added. \u201cI wanted to play in majors and be in contention for the Ryder Cup. I love competing, but not just for 13 weeks a year. I want to play 30 or 25-plus [events], so that\u2019s one of the things I want to move forward towards.<\/p>\n \u201cOnce you win out there, like I did, your life doesn\u2019t change that much. You don\u2019t get into majors, you don\u2019t get a chance to be in the Ryder Cup, you don\u2019t get a chance to play a lot of events. That affected me as a player and I lost motivation. So me and my team thought the best way to move forward was to try to get on the DP World Tour, win on there, and then work my way up to the PGA Tour. It might take us one year, it might take us six years, but that\u2019s the goal.\u201d<\/p>\n Chacarra is certainly on course to reach his goal. He describes his victory at the Hero Indian Open<\/a> in March, when playing on a sponsor\u2019s invite, as life-changing as it secured him full-time DP World Tour playing rights which allowed him to compete for a PGA Tour card.\u00a0<\/p>\n He missed out on one of the ten cards made available to the US circuit in 2025, but is poised to contend for one of the golden tickets again this upcoming season<\/a>.<\/p>\n \u201cWhen I\u2019m healthy and I\u2019m happy and I\u2019m working hard, I\u2019m one of the best players in the world,\u201d the bullish Chacarra stressed. \u201cI was one of the best players in college. I was one of the best players as an amateur, and my goal now is to become one of the best players in the world on the professional side.\u201d<\/p>\n