Pat Perez was under fire and nobody could believe that he and his team would win. Nevertheless, Perez silenced the critics and proved his quality. Talor Gooch decided to praise his teammate. Winning the LIV Golf Team Championship is no small feat.
“He played great. In our foursome yesterday, he played great. Like we shot even par as an alternate shot, which is just – for the last month when we’ve known that that was the format, DJ keeps saying, out there just make a bunch of pars and you’ll be alright.”
– he said, as quoted by golfmonthly.com Perez was of great help to his team. “Technically we made 18 pars and we only won by one. We played great, so he balled yesterday. Pat Perez came through for us clutch this week. It was huge”.
Pat Perez
Perez felt a great responsibility and did not want to disappoint his team. They looked compatible, one could see the unity and one could expect such successes. “I don’t want to let the team down. I want to play well every day, and today I finally was able to show up.
I birdied two of my last three holes coming in and had a great up-and-down on the last hole to get up-and-down. You know, it was an unbelievable feeling to hole that last six-footer kind of down the hill and it go in”.
Perez couldn’t wait for this moment to send a message to the critics. “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,” Perez said. “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”. – Perez said, as quoted by miamiherald.com
