Patrick Reed let himself have it after a poor tee shot near the end of the third round at the 2024 Masters on Saturday.
“You f–king suck. Can you make a good golf swing today, please?” a mic picked up Reed saying to himself after an errant tee shot on No. 17 landed among the trees. “Miss it. Hit it hard. I don’t know where it went.”
His caddie, Kessler Karain, didn’t appear to offer any words of encouragement about the shot either.
“Walking up that 18th hole and seeing my ball in that big-leafed tree on the right again where I could barely advance the golf ball, and my caddie staring at me in the face and saying: ‘Your driving has cost us a lot this week,'” Reed said, according to Golf.com.
Patrick Reed of the United States selects a club from his bag on the first hole during the third round of the 2024 Masters Tournament. Getty Images
Saturday was Reed’s chance to make a move after he followed up a first-round 74 with a second-round 70, but he ended up finishing the third round at Augusta National with a 1-over 73 to enter Sunday at 1-over for the tournament, eight shots back of leader Scottie Scheffler.
“Awful,” Reed described the outing, according to Golf.com
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“I drove it poorly,” he added. “Hit my irons all over the place, couldn’t figure out my yardage. Then when I did figure out the yardage, I hit it above the hole. Had to putt defensive all day.”
Reed, 33, hit a 4-iron onto the green and managed to par on the hole.
However, he bogeyed No. 18 two days after he double-bogeyed the hole.
Patrick Reed lines up a putt during the final round of the 2024
Masters on Sunday. Getty ImagesHis only career major victory came at the Masters in 2018; since then, he’s had three top-10 finishes at Augusta National, including tying for fourth last year.
