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LIV Golf: Pat Perez Rakes In $900k Shooting 80, Placing T-29th

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4 years ago

July 4, 2022

For over 20 years, Pat Perez had prided himself on never losing his PGA Tour card, winning three tour events, and amassing over $28 million in career earnings, sponsorship deals notwithstanding. After claiming that signing to LIV was like, “hitting the lottery,” Pat’s pockets just got a bit bigger, and he didn’t even have to play well to do it.

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The second tournament of the LIV Golf season saw a stop at Pumpkin Ridge Golf Club in North Plains, Oregon, a track that Perez had played against Tiger Woods in the 1996 Amateur. Perez had shot a 68 at Ghost Creek then. This time around, he shot an 80 and finished in 34th at +8, and taking home $900,000 in the process.

In a very Happy Gilmore scenario, if Perez could take home $900,000 in earnings at the 6 remaining LIV events, he would take home north of $6 million. In his four year deal, without consideration of his signing bonus, he would match his career earnings on the PGA Tour in 1/5th of the time.

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Seems like a deal you can’t pass up, you’ve just got to be okay with where that money comes from. Perez seems to have made peace with it.

Pat Perez’s LIV Golf Welcome Party attire. 💵 pic.twitter.com/dWEm7FkRwW

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Perez has been outspoken for his entire career, with brash quotes and occasional expletives interjected. When Phil Mickelson broke the golf world in half with his leaked quote from the Alan Shipnuck debacle, Pat called his apology ‘horsesh-t.’ It seemed then that Perez was speaking out against the defection, but in hindsight, it seems different now that he has embraced LIV completely.

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Jonathan Sidewitz

Jonathan is a Long Island native who enjoys every bit of golf from course design, golf fashion and culture, travel, competition and beyond. On a lifelong quest to lower his handicap, Jonathan has enjoyed playing Bethpage Black, Pinehurst No. 2, and Tobacco Road Golf Club this past year and is hoping to add more courses to the list in the months to come.

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Harry Caine

3 years ago

Pretty bunk article as you leave out that Perez shot 69 day one, 73 day two and was -2 and Top 10 going into Saturday, where he had a shite round. It happens. He closed with a brutal round of 80 and made $153K for doing so. The other $750K was the result of a team win, which he contributed to for the first two days and did zero for on Saturday. And so what? In team sports, how many guys on the bench get a ring? How many ace shooters are throwing up bricks? How many power hitters are… Read more »

Bob Bob

3 years ago

You need to go back to listen to that Golf Sub Par podcast as you’re taking Pat’s quotes out of context regarding his comments on Phil. Phil left the PGA Tour for the LIV Tour for the money, but tried to make it like it was about something more altruistic and then apologized for how he’d handled things, which Perez called out. Perez was also then quick to tell the world he felt like he won the lottery when getting invited to play LIV and that it was 100% for the money. So how is he a hypocrite for calling… Read more »