Although he’s well used now to some negative publicity, Patrick Reed says things have gone too far after revealing it has been affecting his kids at school.
Reed is currently playing at the Asian Tour’s International Series Philippines, which is a world away from when he sprung to prominance by winning The Masters and his Ryder Cup exploits.
“My kids have been bullied at school so that’s where it’s uncalled for,” Reed added.
“When they all of a sudden look at your children and say stuff about them, it’s like you don’t even know my children and why would you even bring kids into it?
“It’s not fun having to deal with some of the stuff that we deal with. The great thing is I have an amazing support team at home and an amazing family.”
Reed insists he is not the person he is often portrayed to be either in the traditional media or on social media, but he still holds out hope of changing that public perception.
“The kind of person I am on and off the golf course hasn’t been portrayed very well in the media throughout my career, but it’s almost impossible to control others,” Reed said.
“All you can do is control yourself, so I feel like I’m doing everything the right way, living the right way.
“Everyone I play pro-ams with and everybody I meet, they’re all like: ‘Man, you’re nothing like what the media portrays you as’.
“So as long as that just continues happening, at some point it will turn around.”
Reed still holds Ryder Cup hope
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Reed feels like he could’ve been “a huge asset to the team, especially at a place I won before” if he’d played for Team USA at Bethpage.
He says though that whatever team Keegan Bradley played “I don’t think we’d be able to hang with the way the Euros played” for the first two days, calling Luke Donald’s side “unreal”.
And the 35-year-old still holds out hope that he can play in the Ryder Cup again, with the 2027 away trip to Adare Manor in Ireland…
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