Tom Pernice Jr., a longtime golfer on the PGA Tour who now performs on the Champions Tour, was accused by his girlfriend of home violence final yr.
MaryAnn O’Neill, now the ex-girlfriend of the 62-year-old Pernice, supplied disturbing textual content messages and a recording to Jon Wertheim and Jessica Luther of Sports activities Illustrated detailing a harrowing sequence of occasions by which she says she was crushed.
Pernice had completed in final place with a rating of 31-over par within the Areas Custom event exterior of Birmingham, Ala., and the 2 had been driving — with Pernice on the wheel and O’Neill within the passenger seat — to Atlanta for the subsequent event. O’Neill mentioned she was utilizing the GPS on her boyfriend’s telephone, seen he had referred to as his ex-wife earlier that day and confronted him about it.
It was after this that O’Neill accused Pernice of punching her within the leg with a closed fist.
On an iPad, she texted her pal, Christy, whose final title was not given, ” ‘I’m going to have large bruises tomorrow. I’m so sick of this a–gap!’ ”
Requested what occurred, O’Neill responded, quoting Pernice as saying, “I’m going to maintain hitting you each time you open your f—ing mouth.”
Christy instructed O’Neill to report the dialog, and he or she did.
In a recording that was revealed by SI, O’Neill requested Pernice, “How do you simply, like, beat your girlfriend? After which cease and undergo a drive-through and eat after which take heed to Christian music for two-and-a-half hours?”
“Since you gained’t preserve your mouth shut,” Pernice responded. “I stored warning you to maintain your mouth shut and stop doing it. You don't have any penalties. You suppose you'll be able to say and do regardless of the f–ok, what you suppose you are able to do. I’m uninterested in it. Not gonna occur.”
Requested if he was simply going to beat her, Pernice answered, “What else am I gonna do? I hit your f—ing within the leg. I’m not beating you.”
O’Neill had beforehand filed a police report however not pressed prices towards Pernice stemming from an incident in 2018, additionally across the Areas Custom, when she accused him of hanging her with a mobile phone at a FedEx retailer and bruising her arm.
Pernice’s legal professional instructed SI, in an e-mail response to inquiries for the story, “Tom Pernice vehemently denies ever being abusive in any means, both bodily, verbally or financially to Ms. O’Neill. Since their breakup [in the summer of 2021] Ms. O’Neill has confirmed herself to be a liar and a thief hell-bent on destroying Mr. Pernice. … She makes use of a distorted model of the information to solely damage Mr. Pernice and financially profit herself all for breaking apart together with her. She is going to cease at nothing to extort Mr. Pernice and unjustly enrich herself. It comes as no shock Mrs. O’Neill would resort to a disinformation marketing campaign.”
Pernice and O’Neill dated on and off between 2015 and 2021. They'd a number of disputes that she mentioned turned violent after she confronted him about communication along with his ex-wife.
O’Neill additionally contacted the PGA Tour, with whom she had enterprise relationships through the years, and didn't really feel like they correctly addressed her considerations, as they requested her to supply a duplicate of a police report back to them, and inspired her to “pursue it by way of the authorized system.”
In response to these claims, a PGA Tour spokesperson instructed SI, “Whereas we don't disclose particular disciplinary motion and won't touch upon this occasion intimately, you will need to word that the PGA Tour takes allegations of home violence very significantly. In issues involving potential legal exercise, we instantly provide help in bringing ahead the grievance to the suitable authorities for additional investigation and motion.
“We additionally take acceptable motion primarily based upon our personal investigation, together with — however not restricted to — suspension from event play in addition to assets and remedy, similar to obligatory counseling. Moreover, we could take additional motion primarily based upon any findings by legislation enforcement and/or the end result of any legal proceedings.”
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