2021 Farmers Insurance Open (Torrey Pines Golf Club)

I'll preface this by stating outside the Ryder or Presidential Cup, I generally don't cheer for Reed (he's a prime candidate to get his pic on a box of Summer's Eve), but I think he's in the clear here. 1. He won by five, not two, which makes the rest of this moot, so 2. the head of the officiating crew told him he did everything he was supposed to do. Was he lying in the first place? Unless you can show me on video where his facial expressions mirror George Costanza's pathological liar countenance, I can't just judge that to be the case (didn't this sorry election teach you that? :P ). Finally 3. Why isn't anyone bitching about McIlroy who experienced (nearly) the same scenario?

Aiight, so maybe that ^^ is pie-in-the-sky, hippie dippie talking. Fine. We still can't prove anything. Reed does carry a bad reputation (he's not Vontez Burfict) so if/when this comes up again and he is found to lying, he should be suffer a (a real) punitive fine/penalty. Then again...back to the McIlroy idea...What happened to Mickelson when he said f*** it and just picked his ball off the green at a US Open a couple of years ago? What could the PGA do to Reed?

Point is...Dude won because the leaderboard around him all needed Dr. Heimlich yesterday.
 
He is a proven cheater. He really doesn’t GAF or he would have consulted a rules official before moving the ball. The ball clearly bounced after it hit i.e. it didn’t and wasn’t plugged. I doesn’t matter whether they told him it did or didn’t bounce. It did bounce and it wasn’t plugged. At least he should have replaced it as it was. At best he should have consulted an official Nobody else saw it before he picked it up. He fuck diddled around doing something down in the grass where you can’t see which brings in the question of further improving his lie

Rory doesn’t have a history of cheating

Philly Mick got the appropriate 2 stroke penalty for hitting a moving ball per the USGA rule book

Golf is a fickle mental game. If he had been penalized or not improved his lie it definitely could have affected the overall outcome of the tournament
 
@Elderfalsedemigod I don't disagree with your sentiment at all. Hell, even liberal Michael Wilbon just echoed what you (and I) said. This whole story is about reputation; McIlroy's reputation is so much more widely appreciated more than the Jawja golfer.

Wilbon just made a great point about the PGA. Who's the #1 villain on tour now? Reed or DeChambeau? Can the PGA have two villains?
 
@Elderfalsedemigod I don't disagree with your sentiment at all. Hell, even liberal Michael Wilbon just echoed what you (and I) said. This whole story is about reputation; McIlroy's reputation is so much more widely appreciated more than the Jawja golfer.

Wilbon just made a great point about the PGA. Who's the #1 villain on tour now? Reed or DeChambeau? Can the PGA have two villains?
I believe DeChambeau has only played in one tournament (Sentry of Champions in Hawaii) since his "Disaster at the Masters".
 


Patrick Reed’s lawyer told Golf Digest that the person who runs Reed’s Twitter account is not affiliated with the useGolfFACTS account.

In response to a Golf Digest email about Reed’s Saturday night Tweet and his connection with “useGolfFACTS,” Reed’s lawyer, Phillip B. Costa, replied “Please be advised that the person who manages Patrick Reed’s Twitter and Instagram accounts does not run the @ use GolfFACTS account.” As of writing, a direct message to the “useGolfFACTS” account from Golf Digest has not been returned.


These are not the same thing.
 
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