Former LIV Golf winner explains why he left and states desire to become best player on the PGA Tour

LIV Golf faces an extremely uncertain future right now, with Saudi Arabia’s PIF set to pull their funding from the league at the end of this season.

Back in June 2022, LIV Golf burst onto the scene and threatened to compete directly with the PGA Tour.

The Saudi-backed outfit signed some huge names from the PGA Tour, including the likes of Bryson DeChambeau, Phil Mickelson and Dustin Johnson.

Then Cam Smith followed by joining LIV Golf not soon after, with Jon Rahm and Tyrrell Hatton jumping ship from the PGA Tour the following year.

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However, despite their grand plans, LIV Golf faltered over the past few years, while the PGA Tour has gone from strength to strength.

PIF will cease funding LIV Golf from the end of the 2026 season and it remains unclear as to what the future holds for the league.

Eugenio Chacarra explains why he left LIV Golf

Numerous players have recently jumped from the sinking ship, so to speak, including Brooks Koepka and Patrick Reed.

However, Eugenio Chacarra made the move away from LIV Golf back in 2024.

And the Spaniard, who won on LIV back in 2022, has now explained exactly why he made that decision, when speaking to Today’s Golfer.

“Once you win out there, as I did, your life doesn’t change that much,” he said.

“You don’t get into majors, you don’t get a chance to be in the Ryder Cup, you don’t get a chance to play a lot of events.

“That affected me as a player, and I lost motivation.”

In fairness to Chacarra, that is an admirable attitude to have.

The 26-year-old is clearly very ambitious to achieve as much as he can in the professional game, and he obviously didn’t feel that playing on LIV Golf would help him reach his goals.

Eugenio Chacarra reveals PGA Tour ambition

Chacarra certainly doesn’t lack confidence.

He told Today’s Golfer how he plans to one day become the best golfer on the planet.

“I was the best player in college golf, and I want to be the best player in the world.

“I have a long way to go. I need to work hard. I need to get better, but that’s the goal that I’ve been doing since I was little.”

But how does he plan to reach the very highest level?

“I only played 30 events on the DP World Tour. I need to start getting to know myself a little better and get my mental game a little better, and then I think I need to do way better with my wedges,“ he said.

“My wedges have not been up to standard, and it’s something that we’re working on. I need to control my spin better. I think I have a lot of spin on the ball because of how my swing is, so I need to do a little better job with wedges. I need to get sharper, and that’s what we’re working on.”

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