With the DP World Tour and LIV Golf seasons winding down and the 2025 PGA Tour season officially ending this week at the RSM Classic, professional players are looking ahead to the year ahead. While many are fighting for PGA Tour status in the RSM Classic, a player first in the field has given up the hunt.
Pro French Victor Perez was withdrawn from RSM Classic on Tuesday, and shortly thereafter rumors were confirmed that Perez would be leaving the PGA Tour and joining LIV Golf.
Here’s what you need to know.
The LIV Golf team makes a secret post about the new player
Early Tuesday, the official X account for the LIV Golf Cleeks Golf Club team posted a message on X that started the rumor mill.
The post read “A new chapter begins. 11.19.25.” and included a photo of four Cleeks GC golf bags. Three of them had the names of existing Cleeks players: Martin Kaymer, Richard Bland AND Adrian Meronk. But the fourth golf bag contained the date “11/19/25” instead of the name.
Hidden in the lower right corner of the photo was the French word “Allez”. Based on this, rumors began to circulate that it would be a French professional joining the Cleeks soon.
Victor Perez’s move to LIV Golf was confirmed after WD
Not long after Cleeks’ post went up, reports began to surface that the player in question was Victor Perez.
Perez, 33, has three career DP World Tour wins, the most recent coming at the 2023 HSBC Abu Dhabi Championship. His best finish at a major was a T12 at the 2023 PGA Championship.
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He earned his PGA Tour card for 2025 and played in 25 events. Perez missed eight cuts this season and earned just one top-10 finish.
Sitting at No. 108 in the FedEx Fall Rankings heading into the RSM Classic, Perez still had a chance to break into the top 100 and secure his Tour card for 2026.
Then on Tuesday afternoon, the PGA Tour announced that Perez had withdrawn from the RSM Classic field, replaced by alternate Tommy Gainey.
WD seemed to confirm rumors that Perez would be the newest member of Cleeks. Then on Wednesday morning, the Cleeks made it official, writing in an X post “From France, with flair. Greetings Victor Perez.”
Perez is the first PGA Tour player to make the move to LIV this year, then Min Woo Lee confirmed he will stay on the PGA Tour.
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