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All i do is win remix dank3/29/2023 ![]() Although I suspect he wasn’t just working on his Zen sand gardening in the middle of a tournament.Īh, but now lawyers are involved. I certainly don’t know enough about what’s going on in that corn maze between his ears to call him a cheater. ![]() “If you do something unintentionally that breaks the rules, it’s not considered cheating,” he informed reporters at the Presidents Cup. It is impossible to know what Reed’s intent was in whisking some grains of sand away from the back of his ball that day - a simple misstep or one of the most poorly-thought-out calculated attempts to gain an advantage in the age of every twitch being captured on high-def? And the Tour may be the most permissive, look-the-other-way parent organization in sports. Until the PGA Tour takes some harsh action against Reed that would substantiate such a slur, nothing so certain can stick. To be clear, I have a hard time with the cheater label. Isn’t that an interesting phrase for someone who is said to have trouble with the truths of golf? But when rules officials reviewed the video evidence, they assessed him a two-stroke penalty for improving his lie. Not that it helped much, he couldn’t keep his next shot on the green. (The aloof Singh has lived with the stigma of a long-ago suspension from the Asian Tour for allegedly altering a scorecard).Īnd then, during the Hero World Challenge last December, Reed twice brushed away sand near his ball while taking practice swings in a waste area. While it’s hard to tell with the polite Masters masses, Reed may have been the least embraced champion since Vijay Singh in 2000. He is brash and unapologetic in a demur game. His family situation is an unfortunate soap opera. ![]() ![]() All of which Reed has consistently denied. After he was kicked out of Georgia, for instance, there were printed allegations that he had cheated in a team qualifier and suspicions that he had stolen from teammates. He came to the party with an already spotty reputation. Aussie fans threw so much abuse his way that at one stage Reed’s caddie went after one and was suspended from the rest of the competition. Earlier, in mid-December in Australia, as one Golf World writer put it, Reed traversed a “gauntlet of hate” during the Presidents Cup. ![]()
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