“My goal has always been to be the best in the world,” says the 20-year-old from Madrid, who will make his professional debut on June 5.
In the 70, Seve Ballesteros. In the 90’s Txema Olazbal. In the new century Sergio Garca. Since 2017, Jon Rahm. The miracle of Spanish golf has a future, and not only because of what remains to be won for Barrika. Note: Eugenio López-Chacarra. Number 4 in the amateur world, third in the university rankings and with the card in his pocket of the Korn Ferry Tour (the second division of the PGA Tour), and a marked date: June 5. Ah start your stage in the professional world.
Garca, Ricky Fowler, Brooks Koepka, Matthew Wolf O Victor Hovland they have witnessed and endorse the impressive future of the young golfer from Madrid. Also the Real Madrid footballer Gareth Bale He has shared games in La Moraleja, a club of which both are members. He is very polite, he hits hard and solid and is very consistent in everything. He has a good short game, it shows that he has a training area at home, Eugenio del gals points out. In fact, he is one of the few golf companions with whom the left-handed winger is related in Madrid, and not only on the field, also some afternoon they have shared a video console at the footballer’s house.
And it is that self-confidence is not the only thing that impresses Eugenio. The quality and consistency in his long game is unanimous and it is impressive seeing that he is only a player amateur. A few months ago, the panel of experts from the prestigious American publication Golfweek I included him in the list of the 10 players who could win on the PGA Tour in 2022, crazy considering that he is not even a professional nor does he have a card to play the American Circuit. In the few appearances he’s had with the pros, like the PGA Tour’s Sanderson Farms in October, they’ve wowed. Koepka, Hovland, Garcia… they all agreed: he has the best long game, it was the unanimous decision.
I like the pressure, it motivates me
Flattery is good, but I keep working… my goal has always been to be the best in the world, and I am aware that there is a lot of work and many hours left…, explains someone who remembers Rahm a lot in his pre-professional stage : an unusual self-confidence.
He has become a star on the amateur circuit, an idol at Oklahoma State University. It’s like being at Real Madrid, if you play golf here you’re someone special, he usually says Alan Bratton, coach from Oklahoma, who has appeared on American television saying that Chacarra is the greatest talent that has passed through there. I like the pressure, it motivates me, says he, she, who lives like a star in Oklahoma: We have a field just for us and we always travel by private plane.
We could consider Eugenio the last disciple of Ballesteros. When he was six or seven years old, Seve came to practice with me, we played par threes, he was already sick, but both he and his family always supported me, says who is looking at the end of this year to make the jump to the PGA.
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