Julian Perico becomes first Peruvian to make DP World Tour cut in Denmark

Julian Perico made history on his DP World Tour debut as he became the first Peruvian to make the cut at the Danish Golf Championship.

The 26-year-old is the first player from Peru to start in a regular event and the second to play on golf's global tour after Luis Fernando Barco at the 2021 U.S. Open.

The HotelPlanner Tour regular is bidding to become Peru's first DP World Tour member after advancing to the Grand Final last season and currently sits 33rd on the Road to Mallorca.

But this week he is focused on the task in hand and revealed after getting to nine under after 36 holes at Great Northern that he had chosen to keep his appearance under wraps.

"I honestly didn't tell anyone I was coming," he said. "Normally I tend to tell a lot of people but I just shut everything down, I only told my mum.

"My uncle didn't see me in the entry list for Ireland (on the HotelPlanner Tour this week) and he was like 'is everything OK?'..... I just told him I was playing DP this week and that's it.

"My roommate has no idea, no one knows so if anyoine is following at home, I'm here."

He added: "I'm just very honoured to see my flag up there with the best players in the world and it's great. It's pretty cool to make history."

Perico studied at the University of Arkansas where he became a star with the Razorbacks and in 2021 became the first Peruvian to play in the Palmer Cup on an International side that also included DP World Tour winners Alex Fitzpatrick and Eugenio Chacarrra.

After that Grand Final appearance in his rookie campaign in 2025, it has been a season of feast or famine, with three top fives but five missed cuts from ten events.

And while he is grateful for all the HotelPlanner Tour is giving him, this week has whetted his appetite for graduation.

"You have to grind that thing out and it's brutal," he said. "It's a great tour and I'm really grateful for it and it's a huge platform for us, it's just really tough.

"It's nice to see what I'm playing for and gave me a little bit of motivation. I had no expectations. I didn't know what a regular season event was like here and this is unbelievable.

"I am very happy, very grateful. It's been an up-and-down year but I wouldn't want it any other way.

"I think that I've given myself the mental space to learn and just the capacity to, when things get tough, I just try my best to reset, get up and keep going.

"There's been a lot of soul searching in there, there's been a lot of light, a lot of dark but I'm starting to learn that all I have at the moment is the present so I'm grateful for it. I'm grateful for this game, I'm grateful for my skills and honestly I'm just trying to become one with the now and just walk along it."

In what many players are regarding a tough test as Great Northern makes its own DP World Tour debut, Perico has dropped just one shot in his 36 holes.

He is clearly a player who feels the mental side of the game is every bit as important as the physical and he is philosophical when it comes to the importance - or not - of producing another impressive 36 holes.

"My mind today was racing a ton, 18 is a little scary," he said.

"But I just kept understaning that those are just voices that come and go and I am the consciousness and the awareness within that so I just tell them to take a ride for a little bit and then when they come back I welcome them and then tell tem to take a ride again.

"I'm just taking it step-by-step, day-by-day and it's really nice to be here.

"I'm hugging the moment, welcoming it into my life and that's all I have. Tomorrow is tomorrow and when tomorrow comes that will be now, so I'll just stick with that.

"I'm here to do my job the best I can. The result is the result, it doesn't define me as a human beng in any way but I do believe that the person that shows up everyday is what defines me as a human being and I'm just trying to keep thhat standard."