{"id":844779,"date":"2025-04-30T20:12:59","date_gmt":"2025-05-01T01:12:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/30\/former-liv-golf-player-chacarra-wins-indian-open-for-his-1st-european-tour-title\/"},"modified":"2025-04-30T20:12:59","modified_gmt":"2025-05-01T01:12:59","slug":"former-liv-golf-player-chacarra-wins-indian-open-for-his-1st-european-tour-title","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/30\/former-liv-golf-player-chacarra-wins-indian-open-for-his-1st-european-tour-title\/","title":{"rendered":"Former LIV Golf player Chacarra wins Indian Open for his 1st European tour title"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"details-body\" data-words=\"267\" itemprop=\"articleBody\">\n<p>NEW DELHI (AP) \u2014 Former LIV Golf player Eugenio Chacarra overcame a slow start to win the Indian Open for his first European tour title on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>Chacarra shot a 1-under 71 in the final round to finish at 4 under and clinch the victory in his ninth tournament on the European tour. The Spaniard ended up two shots ahead of Japanese Keita Nakajima, who shot an even-par 72 in the final round.<\/p>\n<p>Chacharra, who was playing on a tournament invitation, won in his <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/eugenio-chacarra-liv-golf-pga-tour-dunlap-403dd111fe542166a2a2efe00ba23e35\">fifth LIV start<\/a> but was left off the Fireballs roster for the 2025 season by fellow Spaniard Sergio Garcia.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m very grateful for that opportunity,&#8221; he said, thanking organizers for the invitation. \u201cYou guys probably changed my life from today so thanks for that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Aaron Cockerill of Stony Mountain, Man., tied for 29th at 9-over par.<\/p>\n<p>The 25-year-old Chacarra came into the final round at the DLF Golf and Country Club with a one-shot lead but started with a double bogey on the first hole and a bogey on the third to go back to level-par for the week. He bounced back with five birdies in nine holes to retake the lead, which he kept despite a bogey on the 17th.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was a tough day, we knew it was going to be a long day with a lot of pressure and obviously not having the start I really wanted to,&#8221; he said. \u201cI know when I play my best I\u2019m one of the best players in the world, I\u2019ve already proved that a million times.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>___<\/p>\n<p>AP golf: <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/golf\">https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/golf<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Associated Press<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sootoday.com\/national-sports\/former-liv-golf-player-chacarra-wins-indian-open-for-his-1st-european-tour-title-10449977\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI (AP) \u2014 Former LIV Golf player Eugenio Chacarra overcame a slow start to win the Indian Open for his first European tour title on Sunday. Chacarra shot a 1-under 71 in the final round to finish at 4 under and clinch the victory in his ninth tournament on the European tour. The Spaniard<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":844780,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[148,22525],"tags":[6221,5678],"class_list":["post-844779","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-former","category-player","tag-former","tag-player"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/844779","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=844779"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/844779\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/844780"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=844779"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=844779"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=844779"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}