{"id":437497,"date":"2025-11-27T04:45:57","date_gmt":"2025-11-27T04:45:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/golf\/?p=437497"},"modified":"2025-11-27T04:45:57","modified_gmt":"2025-11-27T04:45:57","slug":"victor-perez-explains-his-switch-to-liv-golf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/golf\/victor-perez-explains-his-switch-to-liv-golf\/","title":{"rendered":"Victor Perez Explains His Switch To LIV Golf"},"content":{"rendered":"

These past couple of weeks, as the 2025 season came to an end, there have been announcements of players switching between leagues.\u00a0 Most recently, Laurie Canter earned his Tour Card<\/a> and is now rumored to be switching back to LIV Golf.<\/a>\u00a0 Another player who is making the switch to LIV Golf is Victor Perez<\/a>, and now he is explaining his reasoning for making the switch.<\/span><\/p>\n

Before The Switch<\/span><\/h2>\n

During his time with the PGA, Victor Perez hasn\u2019t seen a single victory on the Tour.\u00a0 He has seen victories on other circuits like the DP World Tour and has played in the Olympics, but nothing on the PGA.\u00a0 This year on the FedEx Cup, the Fall Series, and the OWGR, he found himself outside of the top 100.\u00a0 Perez was on the verge of losing his Tour Card, something that he had only had since 2023.\u00a0 With the changes to the number of Tour Card holders, he found himself on the chopping block and left before it was made official.<\/span><\/p>\n

Perez Explains His Choice<\/span><\/h2>\n

For the initial announcement, Victor Perez described LIV Golf as a great opportunity for him and a part of the next evolution for the sport.\u00a0 Recently, he explained more of the story.\u00a0 Specifically, he explained more about his struggles with the PGA, which has a constantly changing policy.\u00a0 While also confirming the Tour Card cuts as a factor in his decision.\u00a0 Perez went on Bunkered<\/a> and explained.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cProbably one of the points that I\u2019ve struggled the most in America the last two years has been this kind of movement of the goalposts.\u00a0 Year after year, the rule changes that basically makes the playing field like really challenging to read.\u201d\u00a0 Perez continued: \u201cYou know, there\u2019s been times early in the year where I thought I had qualified for one, but then actually I didn\u2019t qualify and then end up qualifying for some.\u00a0 Trying to keep up with other things they were trying to do made it a bit more difficult.\u201d Perez then went on to highlight the Tour\u2019s decision to cut 25 cards.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Perez went on to describe how he went to Brian Rolapp to inquire about the changes.\u00a0 He walked away with the understanding that there will be more changes coming in the near future.\u00a0 Perez wanted more stability in his career and saw that stability in LIV Golf, despite the big changes that are happening over there as well.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Perez In LIV Golf<\/span><\/h2>\n

Despite his time on the PGA Tour, Victor Perez has set himself up for LIV Golf.\u00a0 He desires a stable point in his career and believes that the renegade league can provide that.\u00a0 It is switching to a 72-hole format<\/a>, so the transition won\u2019t be too jarring.\u00a0 He does acknowledge that people may point to his performance as a major reason for leaving.\u00a0 Perez also acknowledges that he could have done better himself.\u00a0 For Victor Perez, switching to LIV Golf is going to be a pivotal moment in his career.\u00a0 As to whether or not it will be a good choice, only time will tell.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Main Photo Credit:\u00a0 \u00a9 Marc Lebryk-Imagn Images<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

These past couple of weeks, as the 2025 season came to an end, there have been announcements of players switching between leagues.\u00a0 Most recently, Laurie Canter earned his Tour Card and is now rumored to be switching back to LIV Golf.\u00a0 Another player who is making the switch to LIV Golf is Victor Perez, and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5429,"featured_media":437498,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"no","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[15,246,200,19],"tags":[8206],"class_list":["post-437497","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-golf","category-golf-news","category-liv-golf","category-pga","tag-victor-perez"],"modified_by":"Taylor Craig","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/437497","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5429"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=437497"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/437497\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":437499,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/437497\/revisions\/437499"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/437498"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=437497"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=437497"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=437497"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}