Patrick Reed has very awkward exchange with reporter at US Open after triple bogey on his final hole

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It was a really sickening end to day one of the US Open for Patrick Reed on Thursday.

Reed signed for a 73 on the opening day of the US Open – not terrible on the face of it, given some of the scores that were being posted at Oakmont.

However, that doesn’t tell the whole story.

The LIV Golf player made a shocking triple-bogey seven on his final hole of the day – a score that completely wiped out the magnificent albatross he made earlier on in the day on the fourth hole.

Before the event began, Reed called for driver testing protocols at the US Open, demanding more regular and stringent tests.

So he was already in a confrontational mood it seemed.

And after his opening round at Oakmont, Reed wasn’t happy one little bit, unsurprisingly so.

Patrick Reed has awkward exchange with reporter at the US Open

Back in April, Reed told reporters how he was unfairly treated by the PGA Tour.

He claimed that the Tour were always too keen to paint him as the villain, but he thinks that has all changed now since he joined LIV Golf.

However, there are still moments when Reed is unable to hide his frustrations.

After his round of 73, he addressed the media, and he was quite clearly seething following his triple bogey on the final hole at Oakmont.

A hugely awkward interview then ensued.

“There’s 71 other holes we have to play. One hole doesn’t mean jack, to be honest with you,“ Reed said when responding to a question about his albatross on the fourth hole.“

Reporter: It actually means a little to our viewers.

Reed: “It was a 3-wood I hit from 287, and it went in.“

Reporter: How about the other 17, how do you feel about…

Reed: “The club that’s been giving me issues has been my driver the past couple weeks, and then the driver actually was halfway decent. All my bogeys and mistakes except for the last hole was hybrids and 3-woods off tees. You use something less than driver to put the ball in play and in position, and every time I tried to do that, I decided to mess that up.“

Reporter: When you hit such a rare shot like that, with the double, how hard is it to follow that the very next hole? How tough is that to kind of live up to a shot like that?

‘Captain America’ responded, “Well, after I hit the tee shot on the next hole with a hybrid, I wished I went and hit 3-wood again because obviously that club was working.

“Yeah, I mean, it was kind of one of those things that since you didn’t really see it go in and all that, this golf course is just go out and make good golf swings. You try to hit your spots. So I didn’t really feel like I got too up or down really throughout the day until that last hole, obviously.

“No, I mean, it felt like going into there I was swinging it really well. Just happened to be a perfect spot, perfect club. When all you see is a tower, you’re trying to hit at the tower. For it to go obviously is a bonus, but really I just have to clean up the other mistakes. Like I said, bogeying hole 2, bogeying hole 5, bogeying 9 from the middle of the fairway, and then obviously having a three-point there on 16 and bogeying 14 after being 90 yards from the green and ending up in a fairway bunker up against a lip, those are just careless mistakes. Those are mistakes you can’t make, and unfortunately I made them.
But then good thing I made 2 on that hole because that wiped three of them off. That really just wiped off the last hole.“

Reporter: Can you appreciate that you’re only the fourth one to do that in U.S. Open history?

Reed: “Oh, it’s awesome. That’s great. But I mean, it’s kind of one of those things that after you finish with a triple, that’s really the last thing you’re really thinking about.“

Reporter: I know as upset as you are realizing that you’re at even par and you’re right in the middle of this —

Reed: “I’m 3-over.“

Reporter: I apologize.

Reed: “I tripled the last.“

In fairness to the 34-year-old, that was really poor from the journalist who asked him that question at the end.

Reed is an easy target for PGA Tour fans

The 2018 Masters champion recently suggested that golf fans don’t understand who he really is as a person.

And he blamed that on the PGA Tour.

He said, “I know it’s impossible to please everybody and for everybody to like you. If you try to make everybody in the world like you and try to please everyone, you would drive yourself insane. Being ‘Captain America’ and being passionate about not only my country but my game and how much I love hanging out with my kids and my family is really important for me, that’s who I really am.

“I feel like they didn’t really showcase a lot of that before I got on LIV.

“They painted me as a villain, which I don’t mind being the guy who goes in and tries to wreck everyone’s day, that’s fine. But I felt like whenever I did something successful, or did the things that really meant a lot to me, they kind of got brushed underneath the table. They wanted to keep me in that one ‘role’.

“If you do something right you deserve to get praise for it but if you do something wrong, hey yeh, you deserve to get attacked.

“I just need to keep being the person I am and hopefully one day it all turns around.“

Whether you love or hate Reed, nobody can deny his passion for the game, which shone through brightly after his poor finish to his opening round of the US Open on Thursday.