In the 2025 season, you will see many different faces on the breakaway circuit. After the season ended in September, LIV Golf’s roster is in the free agency period. Since the initiation of the league in 2022, every year, a set of players either level the circuit through relegation or the golfers in the open zone on the season-long standings change their teams. This process will be followed in 2024 as well.

And the one team that will surely be changed is Sergio Garcia’s Fireball GC. Martin Kaymer’s Cleeks GC, Bryson DeChambeau’s Crushers, Cameron Smith’s All-Aussie team, and Ian Poulter’s Majesticks GC will remain the same. So who will be replaced in the Spaniard’s team? In an interview with Golf Magic, the 2017 Masters champion revealed that Eugenio Chacarra will be out of the team in 2025.

The 44-year-old pro added, “Unfortunately, Eugenio Chacarra finished outside the top 24 [at 39th] and his contract is up. We are very thankful for everything he’s done this last two and half, three year.” Chacarra joined LIV in 2022 and won an event in Bangkok in just his fifth start. But that was it! In the last two seasons, he has only had two top-10 finishes.

Despite his ordinary form this year, Fireball GC finished third on the LIV Golf Team Standings. What makes this move highly unexpected is that Fireballs GC is an all-Spanish team, and Garcia letting go of a Spanish player seems surprising. Chacarra will have to find a new team or play as a free agent on the breakaway circuit.

In other news, Flushing It Golf also noted in a post on X that despite finishing at the bottom of the leaderboard consistently, LIV Golf decided to keep Anthony Kim for the 2025 season. However, another wild card, Hudson Swafford, has served his time on LIV and will not be seen in the next season.

The 2025 season will bring forth many new faces on the PIF-backed circuit, and there is a chance that the league may poach golfers from the DP World Tour or PGA Tour once again. Who will be those new golfers? It remains to be seen. At least Garcia has given a hint on why Chacarra was replaced and talked about the golfer entering the team.

Sergio Garcia reveals why Chacarra’s contract wasn’t renewed

The team captains are not just leaders in a LIV Golf team, but they also have significant equity invested in it. Thus, making sure that their team always performs at their ceiling and appears on the top of the leaderboard sits heavily on the captain’s shoulder. In the case of Eugenio Chacarra, the Spaniard was not coming out as a valuable player.

He finished in the top 10 only once at LIV Golf Singapore. Chacarra was mostly outside the top 25 in the other twelve events this year. And even in team events, his performance did not help Fireball GC to finish better. Thus, talking about the big change, he said, “I think that’s the end game, to make the team better as LIV Golf moves forward.  Sometimes you have to make little changes here and there I guess.”

Garcia also hinted about the new player on the team; he revealed that they did have a particular golfer in mind and were probably talking to him about joining LIV Golf. However, he would be different than Chacarra; as Garcia noted, he is “a little bit of a different profile kind of player.” By the end of the year, the Spaniard’s team will be complete, and predictably, all other teams will lock their rosters too.