Patrick Reed says why he was treated unfairly before his move to LIV after a lot of things got ‘brushed underneath the table’ 

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Is Patrick Reed simply just misunderstood? Or is there good reason for why some golf fans simply cannot take to him?

Reed has an extremely checkered past in the game, but he does seem to have found a place where he truly fits in on LIV Golf.

The 2018 Masters champion has received plenty of criticism from golf fans throughout the years for the way in which he has tried to manipulate the rules on numerous occasions.

However, a lot of his fellow pros rate him very highly indeed.

Phil Mickelson recently described Reed as ‘exceptional’, and when the 34-year-old is on form, he can compete against anybody in world golf.

And now Reed has opened up on how he would like to be viewed within golfing circles.

Patrick Reed says why he was treated unfairly before his move to LIV

He definitely isn’t the easiest tour player to warm to.

He comes across as fairly aloof at times, but is that just Reed the golfer rather than Reed the husband, father and friend?

It seems like that may well be the case.

The three-time Ryder Cup participant pleaded for more balance when it comes to golf fans and the media forming opinions on him:

“I know it’s impossible to please everybody and for everybody 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.“

That is a fair point from Reed. However, you get what you give in life, and the proof will be in the pudding regarding whether he ever becomes a popular figure in the game amongst the fans.

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Reed clearly hasn’t lost his competitive edge since joining the LIV Golf League.

He joined LIV in June 2022, and has had two top-five finishes in the major championships since then.

He played really well at Augusta National earlier this month, but frustrations got the better of him.

After his first round, Reed explained why he wanted to break his putter:

“I hit it fine. I just couldn’t make a putt at all.

“That’s the biggest problem. You have to make putts out here. At least I feel like the ball was starting straight. Just couldn’t get the ball to the hole.

“You want to break it. You want to break the putter. That’s what you want to do.”

Those comments prove just how much Reed still cares about competing and indeed, winning.