As first reported by Sports Illustrated<\/a>, Pat Perez has been reinstated as a PGA Tour member, though according to the PGA Tour, he\u2019s not yet eligible to participate in PGA Tour-affiliated events.<\/p>\nIt\u2019s unclear when Perez, who turns 50 on March 1, can return to PGA Tour competition, whether it\u2019s on the PGA Tour Champions or another tour. The Tour, via statement, could not share any other specifics, citing the issue as a disciplinary matter.<\/p>\n
\u201cPlayers that do not qualify for the Returning Member Program can only be reinstated in accordance with the non-member policy and any applicable disciplinary process,\u201d the Tour said. \u201cAt his request, Pat Perez was reinstated as a member but is not eligible to participate in PGA Tour-affiliated tournaments at this time. The PGA Tour does not comment on disciplinary matters.\u201d<\/p>\n
Earlier this week, the PGA Tour announced the Returning Member Program, which allowed Brooks Koepka an immediate pathway back. The one-time program, however, ends Feb. 2 and only pertains to three other LIV members, Bryson DeChambeau, Jon Rahm and Cameron Smith. Perez did not meet the criteria, which was major winners since 2022.<\/p>\n
Perez joined LIV ahead of its first U.S.-based event in June 2022. His 4Aces team won the season-long title that season and didn\u2019t finish worse than fourth in Perez\u2019s three-year stint with LIV. Perez, however, only posted three top-10s during that span and was relegated after the 2022 campaign.<\/p>\n
He served as a LIV broadcaster this past year.<\/p>\n
Per multiple online reports, Perez\u2019s involvement as an analyst, considered by the PGA Tour to be \u201cpromoting unauthorized events,\u201d was factored into his suspension, which was set to expire in August 2026, one year from the last LIV event he worked.<\/p>\n
When cleared, Perez would be eligible to compete on the PGA Tour Champions via the tour\u2019s career-money category. Perez earned more than $26 million on the PGA Tour; he eclipsed $17 million competing on LIV in 34 starts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Another former LIV Golf member is rejoining the PGA Tour. As first reported by Sports Illustrated, Pat Perez…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":407299,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[71],"tags":[427,99],"class_list":{"0":"post-407298","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-golf","8":"tag-golf","9":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/407298","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=407298"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/407298\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/407299"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=407298"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=407298"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=407298"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}