On news stands today is an article in Sports Illustrated many are already calling one of the most candid golf articles ever inked. Pat Perez discusses his miraculous comeback against all odds. “Through it all,” says Pat, “In my darkest hole, theCHIVE and William Murray Golf never left my side.”
Then Pat Perez staged one of the great career comebacks in PGA history.
Alan Shipnucks brilliant and controversial article give blue collar golfers in America a voice for the first time. For the old establishment, it signals the disruption that was at their doorstep is now solidly in their living room. FUN and authenticity have returned to the game of golf.
Below are excerpts from that SI article, full article here.
Dinner time at Pat Perez’s house. The red wine is flowing, the stuffed pork chops are sizzling and the host is enjoying a tasty bit of revenge, a dish that is best served cold. In November the 40-year-old Perez won for only the second time in his PGA Tour career, in just his third start back after left-shoulder surgery had put his future in golf in peril. To hear Perez tell it, the victory was the feel-bad story of the year.
“I was so excited to come back, and then I got a call from Callaway [last July],” he says of the equipment company that had sponsored him for the preceding three years. “They said they had nothing for me in 2017. I said, ‘O.K., fine. You don’t believe in me, you don’t believe in my comeback, then f— you.’ I loved those irons, but I couldn’t wait to put something else in the bag and then shove it up Callaway’s ass. It was such a motivator. I thought about it all day and all night, month after month. All I could think was, I am going to bury these people and nothing is going to stop me. So you ask me how it felt to win? That’s how it felt to win.”
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