PGA Golf: Patrick Reed Is the American Answer to Rory McIlroy

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Published: March 18, 2014

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Since winning the World Golf Championships—Cadillac Championship at Miami's Trump National Doral, 23-year-old Patrick Reed has been called arrogant and cocky. Some have simply called him confident.

All these labels are, of course, in retort to how Reed classified himself following his big victory, when he stated that he feels like "one of the top five players in the world." 

A 23-year-old with only three tour victories coming out with an outlandish statement like this? The golf community was astonished. Some took Reed's words as disrespectful to the veterans in the game who have been winning for years. Others found him to be necessarily confident, as golf is, after all, an individualistic mental game. 

Fellow PGA Tour golfer Arron Oberholser perhaps summed up the situation best in two tweets: 

I believe there is a fine line between confidence and cockiness and there is a proper way to walk that line like all great players do.......

— Arron Oberholser (@ArronOberholser) March 10, 2014 Patrick Reed will learn how to walk that line. This game has a way of humbling you whether you need it or not.

— Arron Oberholser (@ArronOberholser) March 10, 2014 Ah, if only all things in life can be summed up in two tweets. At 39, Oberholser is, amazingly, old enough to be Reed's illegitimate father, and it's clear that the extra 16 years on Earth have provided Oberholser with some eloquent wisdom. 

All debating and joking aside, the facts remain the facts, and one fact is that Reed has won three PGA Tour events in only 14 starts: this past weekend's conquest, the Wyndham Championship last August, and the Humana Challenge this past January, where he shot 63 in the first three rounds en route to winning by 28 strokes. 

Reed will, without question, suffer setbacks, injuries and adversity throughout his career. He'll have awful ...
Article Source: Bleacher Report - Golf

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