Patrick Reed hit into trees. His caddie then roasted him with 9 words

AUGUSTA, Ga. — Patrick Reed didn’t watch for the query to complete. He had his reply queued up upon listening to the primary bit: “Patrick, how do you consider…”

“Terrible,” he stated. 

“You requested.”

Reed’s caddie, in the meantime, had one other evaluation through the Masters’ third spherical. Simply 9 phrases, to be precise.

Saturday throughout had been disappointing for Reed, who, after a first-round 74, rallied with a second-round 70 on Friday in breezy situations at Augusta National and was in place for a Saturday transfer. However the 2018 Masters winner stalled. 

His private rundown of his one-over 73:

— “I drove it poorly.”

— “Hit my irons far and wide, couldn’t work out my yardage.”

— “Then once I did work out the yardage, I hit it above the opening. Needed to putt defensive all day.”

— “No, there’s nothing good out of right now. I assume the one good factor is I didn’t make a double. That was about it.

— “Yeah, it was a irritating day.”

Sarcastically, Reed additionally famous he had a “first” — he’d wanted a 4-iron into the 440-yard, par-4 seventeenth, the results of a 215-yard drive. A 215-yard drive? Let’s zero in additional intently there. A video of the scene, in any case, had been making the rounds by Saturday night time. Reed teed off, then nearly instantly launched his membership along with his proper hand. His ball headed proper. It smacked a tree. Reed murmured. 

“You … f***ing suck. F**ok, are you able to make a superb golf swing right now? Please. 

“Miss it. Hit it onerous. I don’t know the place it went.”

From there, he hit the 4-iron, which sailed by the inexperienced, although he managed a par. However frustration was cemented. Reed was additionally now strolling to 18, the place notably throughout Thursday’s first spherical, he teed off right into a tree on the suitable, took a penalty and double-bogeyed the opening — solely to do one thing related on Friday. Then, he hit proper of the place he’d been a day earlier, however managed a par. 

On Saturday, Reed hit his tee ball thrice proper. It settled close to the place it was on Thursday. 

And Reed stated he and caddie Kessler Karain, additionally Reed’s brother-in-law, talked. Karain had the 9 phrases. 

“Strolling up that 18th gap and seeing my ball in that big-leafed tree on the suitable once more the place I might barely advance the golf ball, and my caddie observing me within the face and saying: ‘Your driving has price us quite a bit this week.’

“You recognize, he says that, and yesterday it was blowing 50 and I solely missed 4 fairways and that horrendous end I needed to begin the morning (to complete his delayed first spherical). I ended up par-3 [16th] making a bogey, hit the center of the golf green on 17, made bogey and hit it within the tree on 18 and made double.”

Let’s go deeper right here. 

Did Reed have ideas on the tree?

“So it’s simply sort of a type of issues that I don’t actually know if it’s as a lot the driving,” he stated, “it’s simply be certain I don’t hit it into that one tree on 18. That tree is now — I’m in that tree twice, so I’ve made a double and a bogey there due to that silly tree.

“Yesterday afternoon, I really hit proper of the tree, about 4 yards proper of the tree, and I used to be capable of snap-hook it round and chipped it up there shut and made a par. Yeah, I don’t know. Perhaps I must purpose proper at that tree and anticipate to overlook it as a result of attempting to go left of it has not labored. Yeah, largest factor is driving the golf ball, I assume.”

However did Reed have ideas on Karain? Mentioned a reporter after the spherical: “It’s a superb factor he’s a member of the family, proper?”

“Yeah, precisely. I’d most likely be dragging him up that final gap, I swear,” Reed stated. “Simply what you wish to hear as you’re wanting on the ball within the tree, and he goes, ‘It’s essential to drive it higher.’ Thanks, Kessler. I respect it. Nice phrases of knowledge. Drive it higher.”

Reed and Karain return at 1:05 p.m. Sunday for the Masters last spherical. 

Nick Piastowski

Golf.com Editor

Nick Piastowski is a Senior Editor at Golf.com and Golf Journal. In his position, he’s liable for modifying, writing and creating tales throughout the golf area. And when he’s not writing about methods to hit the golf ball farther and straighter, the Milwaukee native might be enjoying the sport, hitting the ball left, proper and brief, and ingesting a chilly beer to scrub away his rating. You possibly can attain out to him about any of those matters — his tales, his sport or his beers — at nick.piastowski@golf.com.