Midway through Patrick Reed’s champion’s press conference, after all the pleasantries and platitudes were out of the way, someone ventured a polite but pointed question about whether he thought he was popular with the fans. Reed flashed an unconvincing grin and said: “I feel like I have a lot of fans around here.” It’s true he should do. His parents live locally, and he went to school here, at Augusta State, and helped it win NCAA championships back-to-back in 2010 and 2011. Only – like another local pro, Kevin Kisner, said not so long ago – a lot of the people who played with Reed back then “all hate him”. In fact, Kisner added: “I don’t know that they’d piss on him if he was on fire.”
Reed says he has enjoyed being Masters champion so much that he has kept his green jacket where he can see it every waking minute. “Everywhere I go, so every time I wake up, I see it, and every time I come home and go to bed, I see it.” Life as a Masters champion, he says, “Is different, but it’s a good different, you know? I mean, every time you go up to the first tee throughout the entire year, and they say ‘2018 Masters Champion’, it just give me goosebumps and brings all those memories back.” But his success has brought a measure of scrutiny with it too, and a lot of difficult questions about his private life, and his personal relationships.
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