Pat Perez on Earning $8 Million Despite No LIV Top 10s “I’m Paid, I Don’t Give A Damn”

No one benefitted from the team format in LIV Golf more than Pat Perez.

The 46-year-old, who had two top-10s in 19 events on the PGA Tour last season and hadn’t won in five years before joining LIV, ended up taking home more than $8 million in the series’ eight tournaments despite logging a best finish of 15^th.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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That’s because $7 million of that total came from winning as being a part of the 4 Aces, led by Dustin Johnson along with teammates Talor Gooch and Patrick Reed.

Johnson scorched the field, winning one tournament and taking home the individual championship. In team events played concurrently with the seven tournaments, the 4 Aces won three times.

On Sunday at the LIV Team Championships in Miami, the 4 Aces dueled with Punch GC (captained by Cameron Smith) at Doral with a prize of $4 million for each participant on the line.

But when the biggest money of the big money was at stake, Perez came through.

Pat Perez can handle the pressure https://t.co/tcVAcbWYOc

— Hank Haney (@HankHaney) October 31, 2022

After contributing to the win on Saturday, he—along with Johnson and Reed—shot a 2-under 70 to help his team to the championship.

Following the win, Perez talked about the detractors who said all season long that he was riding the coattails of Johnson and his teammates to riches.

Perez, whose previous career-high money total was $4.37 million in 2017, said:

“All the push-back, all the negative comments, everything we’ve gotten, at this point I really don’t care. I mean, I don’t care. I’m paid. I don’t give a damn… My team played unbelievable this year. I feel like I’m really part of something that I’ve never been part of, other than me and my caddie, we’ve just been just us our whole life. To have these guys and their caddies and families and coaches and everybody, it’s just one big family now. I just couldn’t be any happier. It’s unbelievable.”

Even if Perez isn’t a part of LIV Golf next year (with more players expected to join the 48-player circuit, some will inevitably have to drop out), he will go down in history in the first year of the new league.

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