Pat Perez blasts Tiger Woods over LIV remarks

Perez, part of Dustin Johnson’s all-conquering 4 Aces team that won the inaugural LIV Golf Team Championship in Miami a fortnight ago, has blasted the 15-time major champion for remarks he made ahead of The 150th Open.

Speaking in St Andrews this summer, Woods took aim at the new Saudi-funded circuit, questioning everything from its 54-hole format to the ‘blaring’ music played its event.

“I just don’t see how this is positive in the long term,” added Woods. “It would be sad to see some of these young kids never get a chance to walk these hallowed grounds and play in these majors.”

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Speaking on the latest episode of the Son Of A Butch podcast, hosted by Claude Harmon, Perez hit back.

“That’s the stupidest s*** I have ever heard in my life,” he said.

“That’s one of the stupidest things I think he has said. The incentive is the fact that last place is $120,000, first place is four million. You cannot win four million on the PGA Tour.”

Perez, who made more than $8million in his first eight events on LIV to go with the $28.8million he made in 515 PGA Tour starts, also pointed out…