{"id":27074,"date":"2026-11-12T10:04:32","date_gmt":"2026-11-12T06:04:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pressreleasenetwork.com\/site\/?p=27074"},"modified":"2026-11-12T10:04:32","modified_gmt":"2026-11-12T06:04:32","slug":"chacarra-chasing-place-alongside-spanish-greats-in-race-to-dubai-finale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pressreleasenetwork.com\/site\/2026\/11\/12\/chacarra-chasing-place-alongside-spanish-greats-in-race-to-dubai-finale\/","title":{"rendered":"Chacarra Chasing Place Alongside Spanish Greats In Race To Dubai Finale"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tournament Preview<\/strong><\/p>\n

Eugenio Chacarra says joining Seve Ballesteros and Jon Rahm as a European Number One would \u201cmean the world\u201d as he heads into the DP World Tour Championship with the Harry Vardon Trophy within reach.<\/p>\n

The Spaniard holds a 533.93-point lead over Rory McIlroy at the top of the Race to Dubai Rankings Delivered by DP World, and while there are nine players in the running for the season-long race, Chacarra knows victory at Jumeirah Golf Estates would secure the title, regardless of his rivals\u2019 results.<\/p>\n

The only three-time winner this season, Chacarra\u2019s recent victory at the DP World India Championship saw him move to the top of the standings and put him in a position to join Ballesteros and Rahm \u2013 also in the running for the title \u2013 as only the third player from Spain to finish the season as DP World Tour Number One.<\/p>\n

Chacarra has had a season to remember, recording victories at the KLM Open and DS Automobiles 83\u00b0 Open d\u2019Italia in June before adding his third title in Delhi earlier this month. But it is his consistency beyond those wins that has helped his rise to the top of the Rankings.<\/p>\n

Making his 31st start of the season \u2013 second in starts only to Angel Ayora \u2013 Chacarra has notched up five other top tens across his year, including a runner-up finish in his title defence at the Hero Indian Open and a tie for second at the Open de Espa\u00f1a presented by Madrid.<\/p>\n

He set out at the start of the year with lofty goals and an appreciation of a big schedule, and now heads into the final event with the chance to become the first player this century to win the Race to Dubai having only played one of the four Major championships.<\/p>\n

To win the Race to Dubai, Chacarra will have to fend off challenges from a host of players, including Rory McIlroy, who is seeking to match Colin Montgomerie\u2019s tally of eight Race to Dubai titles and secure his fifth consecutive season at the top of the pile.<\/p>\n

Although McIlroy will need to finish a minimum of fourth around the Earth Course at Jumeirah Golf Estates, Chacarra acknowledges that McIlroy\u2019s record means it won\u2019t be an easy test, but is hopeful he has learned a few lessons from playing alongside the six-time Major champion last week.<\/p>\n

Player quotes<\/strong><\/p>\n

Eugenio Chacarra:\u00a0<\/strong>Yeah it would mean the world to put my name where Seve\u2019s and Jon is, two of the best players of all time, will be really special.<\/p>\n

Yeah, just coming with a chance to be able to win it this week is something very special. There is a lot of great talent in Spain and a lot of great players on this tour from Spain. That tells you how tough it is and how good you need to play.<\/p>\n

I didn\u2019t play three of the four Majors, so I come with a little less advantage than the other European guys. I\u2019m happy I have a chance to go win and go win it on the course. We are playing for a lot, and there\u2019s a lot of things that can happen. That tells you how good the play is and how much I\u2019ve been on the leaderboard.<\/p>\n

And it\u2019s not only three wins: I have a couple of seconds and a couple of thirds and a couple of fourths. I\u2019ve been in contention on Sundays and that\u2019s what I work on every single day, is to have a chance to win on Sunday.<\/p>\n

We knew winning this year was going to take a lot of tournaments. I really wanted to get that PGA Tour card before next year\u2026 for that, I was going to need to play as much as possible, because you have more chances if you play more.<\/p>\n

So we knew that at the start of of the season. We did a great pre-season. I got a couple of new guys on my team that really helped me. I\u2019ve got a really nice doctor and nutritionist and physio and workout guy that\u2019s been great for me. Before, I couldn\u2019t play more than three weeks, and this year, I had a stretch I played seven weeks; and on the seventh week I had a chance to win in France. Just to feel my body was good to compete, it makes me relaxed and it makes me trust the guys that I have on my team.<\/p>\n

I\u2019m really proud of the position I am in. I believe in myself, when I started the season I said I wanted to win a couple of times and I got done early in the season and to keep winning and have good weeks, it\u2019s really nice. One of the goals was to finish the year in the top 50 in the world, and looks like I already have that and I\u2019ll be teeing it up in Augusta next year, and that will be a dream that I really wanted to do in my professional career. It\u2019s not an easy task to do.<\/p>\n

I\u2019m excited to see where my golf takes me, but like I said, all I can control is to keep working hard and to keep doing the things that I\u2019m doing, that\u2019s definitely working.<\/p>\n

Obviously we know how good Rory McIlroy is, and he\u2019s one of my idols. It\u2019s going to be a tough test, and that\u2019s what I dreamed of since I was little. But I already beat him in India. So I need to remind myself that I can compete with him and I can beat him like I did already a couple of weeks ago.<\/p>\n

So I\u2019m just going to go out there\u2026 obviously this is a course that he\u2019s had a lot of success and I only played once and didn\u2019t do very good. They are just numbers. This is golf and crazy things happen. I\u2019m just going to enjoy myself, and if I bring my A Game, I\u2019m going to be able to compete with him on Sunday.
\nI think it really helped to for me to play with him last week to be honest. I made a lot of mistakes that I probably shouldn\u2019t have done, but it was the first time playing with him.<\/p>\n

So that\u2019s going to help me a lot. I learned from it. I had a great talk with my team after that first round. And I didn\u2019t feel it at the moment, but it\u2019s really hard to just get into the bubble and start thinking about his game instead of focusing on what you have to control.<\/p>\n

It helped playing last week, it really helped me to see what I can do and what I shouldn\u2019t do, and I think I\u2019m more prepared this week to go tee it up tomorrow and just focus on my game and that\u2019s what I can control.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Tournament Preview Eugenio Chacarra says joining Seve Ballesteros and Jon Rahm as a European Number One would \u201cmean the world\u201d as he heads into the DP World Tour Championship with the Harry Vardon Trophy within reach. The Spaniard holds a 533.93-point lead over Rory McIlroy at the top of the Race to Dubai Rankings Delivered […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":27077,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"none","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27074","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressreleasenetwork.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27074","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressreleasenetwork.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressreleasenetwork.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressreleasenetwork.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressreleasenetwork.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27074"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pressreleasenetwork.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27074\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27078,"href":"https:\/\/pressreleasenetwork.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27074\/revisions\/27078"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressreleasenetwork.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27077"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressreleasenetwork.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27074"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressreleasenetwork.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27074"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressreleasenetwork.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27074"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}