López-Chacarra, the new Spanish golf genius who learned from Seve Ballesteros

New blow of effect of the Spanish golf.

(Madrid, 2000) won the Bangkok tournament on the LIV circuit on Sunday, which he completed with a total card of 19 strokes under par.

The man from Madrid won a prize of nearly five million euros.

The Arab League breaks the market.

didn't even receive 300,000 euros for winning the Spanish Open yesterday.

López-Chacarra is a child prodigy.

He has been the amateur with the most impressive long game of all those who have passed through the American

.

Through his veins run

airs , those of the long summers on the golf course, or those of his grandfather Eugenio de el, who became fond of the whole family.

He was in the house of

.

«I started training with

.

I remember when I was little, Seve, who was already sick, went down to train and we played par 3s together. I will never forget when I took the jar of claret with Seve in his trophy room, ”said Seve's last disciple before becoming professional.

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have endorsed the kid's talent.

In the four experiences with the professionals before making the leap to LIV, Chacarra left no one indifferent.

A year ago he made the cut at the PGA Tour's Sanderson Farms.

They all freaked out.

"He has the best long game," they claimed.

“I missed two fairways and seven

in four days, but I finished higher than 100th in the short game and green stats,” he stated.

Trouble on the green

That was precisely the main problem of Chacarra.

The greens, the closer to the hole, the more he suffered, the more pressure, the more trouble making a fluid movement with the

.

The alarms sounded in a couple of university tournaments where Chacarra embroidered golf but missed some putts.

However, in his last invitation to the Mayakoba tournament last November, he changed his sports life.

The tournament did not go well, and desperate for his streak on the greens, but he got a recommendation from the American player

that would change his life: the broom putter.

«Now every time I get to the green I no longer suffer.

I'm having fun".

The broom was like a magic wand for Eugenio.

In his amateur stage, the panel of experts from the prestigious American publication Golfweek included him in the list of the 10 players who could win on the PGA Tour in 2022, crazy, considering that he was not even a professional.

He had not yet managed to sign him for LIV Golf.

, coach of Oklahoma, said on American television that Chacarra is the greatest talent that has passed through the history of the university.

Chacarra lived like a star in Oklahoma.

"We had a golf course just for us, we always traveled by private plane, these are facilities that very few universities give you," he recalls.

The man from Madrid started at Wake Forest and then signed for Oklahoma State, a university that gave him much more facilities to dedicate himself to golf.

In his journey he coincided with

.

"Being in Oklahoma is like playing for Real Madrid."

His golf and his personality matured as he went through college.

Although Chacarra wants to make clear the lesson best learned from him: «Talent is given to us, luck is found and the effort is put in by you and I think that nobody beats me.

I consider myself the golfer who works the hardest and I say it proudly, but it is also not only the effort I make but the effort made by my entire team around me and especially my family, to whom I undoubtedly owe everything».

A successful family, since her sister Carolina stands out as an amateur in the United States.

At the end of June, he announced almost by surprise his signing for LIV, just when he planned to stay another year as an amateur, the Arab tycoons put a multimillion-dollar contract on the table that cannot be rejected.

An opportunity that the Spanish did not miss.

"In the worst case, I will be 25 years old when my contract with LIV ends, life solved and I will be able to try to access the PGA Tour and the majors."

For a three-year contract, he could receive 15 million, apart from the prizes, like the five from yesterday's victory.

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