Trust me, this guys is the best.
Posted on 04/09/2018 10:03:29 AM PDT by C19fan
Patrick Reed had two putts for par, two putts on the 18th green, two putts to win the Masters. He was sitting at 15-under, he had held Rickie Fowler, Jordan Spieth and everyone else off for going on three days. He was 24 feet away with an opportunity to lag it, then tap it, then slip on a green jacket.
The throng around the 18th here at Augusta National sat politely but when his first putt slipped by the hole leaving him a slightly tricky 4-footer, they began a murmur that built into a consensus, not of dread that he might blow this, but rather what sounded like hope that he might.
Know this about golf fans, they are lap dogs. They cheer for everything and everyone. If a guy makes a great shot, they clap, even if it adversely effects the guy they are rooting for to win. That’s the sport. It’s even more polite here at Augusta, where if when someone is about to win a major – even a relative unknown such as Charl Schwartzel or Danny Willett – they rain down thunderous applause.
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Apparently people that know his situation say he has a controlling crazy wife that blocks his family out of his life and controls the narratives about him
One of the golfers I don’t care much for is Sergio, who has been over-rated his entire career, IMO.
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They should have called a penalty on him last year for displacing the ball while moving pine needles.
Bubba is a big time Christian. But he does have a temper.
One thing people should remember is that the standards are very high on the PGA Tour. A big jerk there may be in the top ten percent of good guys in the NFL.
I hope you understand that placing Reed in the same paragraph with Jack is stretching it a bit. Reed shot the best golf of his career on this tournament. He isn’t that good.
Overall according PGA.com he is 193rd in driving accuracy, 136th in greens in regulation, 31st in scoring average, 33rd in sand saves and ranked 11th in the world. He is a better than average player at this moment, but he has risen to this over years. And he may not be able to sustain it. And over the last 17 tournaments since October of last year, he has missed 4 cuts. Not a player that you can trust to compete at this level.
And Reed has not endeared himself to people with incidents like this:
“On the 10th hole of the WGC-HSBC Champions, Patrick Reed rolled a putt past the hole. In the process of tapping in his third putt on the green he chastised himself saying, fairly audibly, “”Nice f**kin’ three-putt you f**kin’ fa**ot.”
While at UGA, it was said by team mate Shawn Ryan that he misreported scores. Before the team’s first tournament, during a qualifying round at the Forest Hills Golf Club in Augusta, Reed was playing with a teammate. It was normal for the players not to use score cards, and to relay their scores to Josh Gregory, the coach, when the round had finished. Reed texted his score, and the teammate noticed that it was the wrong score—one shot lower than Reed had actually shot. He said nothing at the time, but told his teammates. The teammates took no action at that point.
In the very next qualifying round, Reed was playing at Goshen Plantation, this time with Mitch Krywulcyz, Taylor Floyd, and Brendan Gillins. Krywulcyz was responsible for relaying their scores to Gregory, and once again, Reed told him a score that the team believed to be incorrect. After the round, the teammates discussed the score and confirmed what they believed, that Reed’s announced score had been lower than the actual score. Krywulcyz called Reed, who backed up the score he had given Krywulcyz. At that point, the players agreed that something strange was happening—given Reed’s reputation, two false scores in a row raised suspicions. At that point, the team held a vote, and they chose unanimously to kick Reed off the team.
But it is becoming increasingly clear that if PGA Tour players are anonymously expressing skepticism over Reed’s seeming lack of trustworthiness, they might be doing so for increasingly verifiable reasons. Even now, on Tour, it is said by players trying to stay out of it that there’s a private joke among certain players when Reed enters a locker room: “Hide your things,” they tell each other. “Patrick’s here.”
He’s disliked, not trusted, and is not that good. He played well this tournament. But it’s been a long time coming and he has stretched his welcome with the tour.
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Trust me, this guys is the best.
Bubba Watson has ADHD (per his own admission and his wife saying so as well). But undistracted, he sure can shape shots!
I always thought Vijay Singh was the most disliked on tour...apparently he's only 8th most disliked. Who uses deer antler spray anyway???
Gunga Galunga!
sorry FRiend. i had no intention of putting Reed in the same class as Nicklaus yet.
however, i remember that Jack was roundly disliked at the time i came to first like him and his very different game.
it’s unmistakable for me, the golfing “resemblance” between Reed and a young Jack Nicklaus. mannerisms, determination, stare of the eye, even body type. we’ll see how he grows up in the game. however, i’m rooting for Reed already in a way i never cottoned to say Woods.
i’m going to wait and see with Mr. Reed. my gut tells me you’re wrong about him.
Because if he doesn’t it’s never going to go away. He’ll always be known as the guy who dumped on his family and cheated and stole from his teammates. Trust me, interviews are being set up with his former teammates and his parents and sister. He’s in the big time now and he’s in danger of letting others control his narrative. “I just want to play golf” isn’t going to cut it.
Patrick Reid had a great Masters. Congratulations young man!
looks like his wife is claiming family abuse issues... Patrick Reed’s controversial family history https://wwos.nine.com.au/2018/04/09/19/24/patrick-reed-family-history
Not a fan of Bubba. Not at all.
“I wonder who cam in first? Sports needs villians too.”
Bubba.
Vijay Singh had many of the same things said about him many moons ago and he got over it...hopefully Patrick will keep improving on and off the course
It was a great tournament and Reed deserved. He was under tremendous pressure and didn’t fold.
Congratulations to Patrick Reed! His putter was as reliable as anyone’s throughout the tournament. I admit I was rooting for Speith to pull off the impossible, but he started the final round too far back. A final round 64 is still something but in retrospect he lost the tournament with lackluster play on Friday and Saturday.
And now... on to the next major, our national championship, the U.S. Open!
Why?! He's just a long-hitting, putt-sinking good ole boy.
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