Pat Perez Joins The Tiger Enemy List In Grand Fashion!

Pat Perez, talking on Sirius/XM with Michael Collins on their monthly radio show Out of Bounds, is certainly blunt when talking about Tiger's future after establishing that Woods "is the needle." But given that Perez has played 18 majors in his career to Tiger's 14 major wins, a touch more empathy might have been in order even after establishing his respect for Woods.

But the show is called Out of Bounds and he's swinging for the fences here in his once-a-month opportunity.

Michael Shamberger at The Big Lead has the audio posted by Sirius/XM.

“He knows he can’t beat anybody. He’s got this new corporation he started so he has to keep his name relevant to keep the corporation going. So he’s going to show up to a few events, he’s going to try to play, he’s going to show the Monster bag, he’s going to show the TaylorMade driver, he’s gonna get on TV. He’s got the Nike clothes, he’s gotta keep that stuff relevant.

“But the bottom line is he knows he can’t beat anybody. He knows it. He shot 77! That guy can’t shoot 77. What does he do the next day? ‘Aw my backs gone.’ He knows he can’t beat anybody!”

“Personally, I don’t think you’ll see him again this year. The guy can’t show up to an interview!"

Tiger might normally have tolerated this as Pat being Pat except for the suggestion that Woods has been playing just to give sponsors some appearances. While that may be somewhat true, I'm fairly certainly suggesting that the tone Perez chose will move him to some place between Stevie and Brandel on the GolfDigest.com Tiger Enemy list.

Though the quotes were reported in many places and Sirius/XM clipped the audio to only feature the negative comments, Perez took to Instagram to suggest Golf Digest took the comments out of context.