Eugenio Chacarra caused different reactions in the golf public after he confirmed that he left LIV Golf, and expressed his desire to perform on the PGA Tour. The 24-year-old, born in Madrid, admitted that he was frustrated with the treatment by the LIV Golf leaders, who promised them a lot, but basically nothing was fulfilled.
The young golfer stressed that he trusted the leaders of the Controversial Tour, aiming to perform at the Majors and earn OWGR points.
However, the situation is quite different. LIV is still not awarded with OWGR points, which causes concern among other golfers.
Jerry Foltz reacts
His statements were not very well received among LIV Golf fans, and the first to criticize him was Jerry Foltz, LIV’s commentator. The popular commentator tried to mitigate the reaction, saying that there were reasons why Chacarra was not in the center of attention at LIV Golf.
“I’ll try to temper [my reaction] as best I can because those comments rubbed me, and everybody else associated with LIV, the wrong way.
There’s a lot of it that simply isn’t true, but be that as it may, he didn’t finish in the top-24 in the Lock Zone [last season]. There’s a reason we didn’t talk about him much – it’s because he didn’t play very well for the last two years.
Secondly, he still was within the Open Zone but none of the teams wanted him. I think instead of placing blame with the league, place blame looking in the mirror. There’s a reason they didn’t want him and that’s because of the character he has displayed over two-and-a-half seasons with LIV. That basically says it all in a nutshell.”- he said, as quoted by Golf Monthly.
Foltz then referred to the statements of Dean Beman, the former commissioner of the PGA Tour, who used to emphasize to PGA Tour players who protest to play better. The commentator is sure that if the young Spaniard had played better, he would not have said such negative things about the Tour in which he earned huge money.
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