DP World Tour, Eugenio Chacarra wins in India

Edoardo Molinari, ninth with 292 (73 71 75 73, +4), and Andrea Pavan, tenth with 293 (73 69 79 72, +5) and author of a “hole in one”, offered a good performance and both finished in the top ten in the Hero Indian Open, won with 284 (70 70 73 71, -4) by the Spaniard Eugenio Chacarra.

Chacarra, results

On the DLF G&CC course (par 72), in New Delhi, India, in the tournament that the DP World Tour organized in collaboration with the Professional Golf Tour of India, Chacarra beat by two strokes the Japanese Keita Nakajima, second with 286 (-2), who was defending the title, and by three the Dutch Joost Luiten, third with 287 (-1), the only other two players who, like the Spaniard, went under par. In fourth place with 288 (par) the Swede Jens Dantorp, in fifth with 290 (+2) the French Adrien Saddier and in sixth with 291 (+3) the South African Brandon Stone, the English Joshua Berry and the Norwegian Andreas Halvorsen.

Eugenio Chacarra, from Madrid, who turned 25 last March 22, turned professional in 2022 and started with a three-year contract in LIV Golf where he won a tournament in the same year. In 2023 he scored on the Asian Tour and now he has achieved his first success on the DP World Tour, which is worth the category on the circuit that he did not have and the exemption, in the ninth race played (three as an amateur in 2019). Having taken the lead in the third round, he started in the fourth with a double bogey and a bogey, but he did not lose his composure and then scored five birdies, against another bogey, for the 71 (-1). For the victory he received a check for 354,641 euros on a prize pool of approximately 2,075,000 euros (2,250,000 dollars the official figure).

Edoardo Molinari, only at his second appearance of the season because stopped by a hand injury, found a good rhythm after the previous 43rd place in Singapore. Andrea Pavan, at his tenth appearance, made the “hole in one” on the 12th hole, par 3 of 189 yards, using a 9 iron. He obtained the second top ten of the season and overall has classified six times in the top 25. The ones who went out at the cut were Francesco Laporta, 69th with 151 (72 79, +7), and Guido Migliozzi, 89th with 153 (73 80, +9).