Fat Perez won the 2026 Internet Invitational with Riggs and Bobby Ray, taking home $1.33 million from the $4 million purse. Team FP closed out Team Big John on the 15th hole of the final at Payne’s Valley.
The Bob Does Sports regular was working as an accountant when he joined the crew. Now he is an Internet Invitational champion.
What Is Fat Perez’s Real Name?
Fat Perez’s real name is Nick Stubbe. He got the nickname during a match at Hermitage Country Club in Richmond, Virginia, when the opponent he was beating badly started calling him Fat Perez.
It was a nod to Stubbe’s skill, build and mullet, which resembled PGA Tour player Pat Perez, per GOLF. He didn’t like the nickname at first. It stuck anyway.
Stubbe has since lost 100 pounds.
Where Is Fat Perez From?
Stubbe moved to Richmond just before fourth grade and spent his childhood summers at Jefferson Lakeside Country Club, now Lakeside Park Club. Golf runs in his family back to his great-grandfather in Erie, Pennsylvania.
“I’ve had a golf club in my hands since I could stand,” Stubbe said.
He played Division III college golf at Hampden-Sydney College, then earned an accounting degree from VCU. Stubbe carries a +2.4 Handicap Index.
How Fat Perez Joined Bob Does Sports
Stubbe worked in public accounting and commercial real estate investment funds. Before Bob Does Sports existed, he followed Robby Berger’s YouTube channel, The Brilliantly Dumb Show.
“I wasn’t a tax accountant so I wasn’t, like, grinding,” Stubbe said.
During the pandemic, Berger and Joey Coldcuts hosted Patreon Zoom happy hours, and Stubbe joined under the name “Fat Perez.” Berger remembers him calling in from a cubicle “pounding beers.”
“When he came in, he just lit it up,” Berger said on the Subpar podcast. “And then when we found out how good of a golfer he is, I was like, all right, he’s a shoo-in.”
The two first met in person by chance in Pinehurst, North Carolina. “I just happened to be in Pinehurst with my wife one weekend [Berger] was down there, we met up for drinks, dinner,” Stubbe said. “It was like, ‘Come play No. 2 with us.’ Kept playing golf ever since.”
Stubbe flew to Los Angeles a couple of times to play with Berger. His first official Fat Perez video came out in March 2022, and he left accounting that July to make golf content full time.
“Even then, I wasn’t thinking about this being my tryout,” Stubbe said.
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Fat Perez at the Internet Invitational
In 2026, Stubbe was drafted to Ryan Ruffels’ Team White. He and Big John beat George Bryan and Chaz 2 and 1 in the Episode 3 scramble, and he beat Seb Carmichael-Brown 2 and 1 in Episode 4 singles as White eliminated Wesley Bryan’s team.
Dave Portnoy then redrafted the final 12 players into four teams of three for the Day 3 semifinal. Stubbe, Riggs and Bobby Ray posted the best score at 2 over through nine holes of alternate-shot stroke play at Payne’s Valley.
Team Big John got in at 4 over. Team Micah (+5) and Team Ruffels (+7) were eliminated.
The final was 18 holes of alternate-shot match play against Big John, Ryan Whitney and Salim. Team FP closed out the match on the 15th hole, and each player took home $1.33 million.
Stubbe still calls Richmond home. “Richmond’s always been home for me,” he said in 2025. “For us, we’re Central Virginia forever.”
