Anger drives Pat Perez to new heights half a lifetime after taming Tiger | Andy Bull

After Pat Perez beat Tiger Woods at a prestigious junior event in 1993 aged 16 their careers took wildly different paths – but now golf’s raging bull is fulfilling the talent that goes with his temper

It’s likely been a long time since Tiger Woods last thought about the 1993 Junior World Championships. When you have won 79 professional tournaments, you don’t sweat over a youth competition you played in over half a lifetime ago. But that championships, at Torrey Pines, was an interesting one. Not just because Woods lost, but because of who he lost to. A 16-year-old Mexican-American kid called Pat Perez, who spent his spare time shagging balls on Torrey’s driving range. Perez had to borrow a set of clubs to play that week. They were a couple of inches too long, but it didn’t much matter. He shot 69, 71, 69, 69, and won by three.

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