After LIV cut him, he quit golf. Now he's back - and contending
Former LIV golfer Pat Perez is playing the Senior PGA Championship this week, his first step in his reintegration to pro golf.
Pat Perez at the Senior PGA Championship this week. getty images Pat Perez had a stellar PGA Tour career. In 515 career starts, he had three wins and 64 top-10s, and banked nearly $30 million in earnings.
But when LIV Golf came knocking in 2022, Perez, who was then 46, couldn’t resist the siren song of a mega-payday. “It’s like winning the lottery for me,” he said. As a member of Dustin Johnson’s 4Aces, Perez lasted three years on the tour, never finishing better than 28th in the individual standings.
After the 2024 season, when Perez finished a lowly 48th, the 4Aces cut him. But he wasn’t out of work for long. LIV leaned into Perez’s outsize personality and offered him a job as a commentator on its broadcast team.
When we say Perez dropped his clubs for a mic, we mean he quite literally didn’t touch them — for nearly a year. From January 2025 to the end of September of that year, Perez said he didn’t hit a single fade, draw, punch or stinger. Not one golf shot.
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