After Pat Perez won the Mayakoba Open yesterday, a reporter asked him how he pulled off his comeback?
He said: “I had an attitude that I can’t really repeat, but it worked.”
ZFG: Zero F*cks Given
Starting on the first day of the tournament in Mayakoba, Pat destroyed the course. Never backing down, took the most aggressive line to the flag every single time. In the narrow and unforgiving fairways at El Camaleón Golf Club, when his competitors teed off with the safe pick of an iron, Pat took out his driver.
Last week, I published an article, the thesis of which plainly stating we would witness the rise of the underdog this year. I outlined exactly how we were going to do it, from the massive efforts to pay it forward on behalf of theCHIVE to Bill Murray, to my claim that we were about to see a 40-year-old golfer, long written off, become a champion.
We believed that if you harness enough positive energy, there’s a force in this universe, something we will never be able to explain or pinpoint, that will reward you.
Yesterday, Pat Perez blew the competition away and shocked the golf world. But Pat considers himself an American first. He’s just golf’s everyman just trying to make the world 10% happier. That’s why we chose him as the lone PGA representative for William Murray Golf, a move widely doubted, which just proved all the naysayers wrong.
So let’s talk about Pat as a person for a moment, because it’s time to get to know how great the new champ really is…