After playing this week at LIV Golf as the unofficial local ambassador of the Arab Super League’s first foray into Houston (Texas), the 2018 Masters champion Patrick Reed He will rest next week at his home in the nearby suburb of The Woodlands. He would work on his game in the morning and then spend time with his family, including his two sons, who were on summer vacation.
What Reed won’t do is play the US Open Pinehurst (North Carolina). This is the first time in nearly 11 calendar years that he has missed a Grand Slam. Reed’s streak of 41 major appearances – the longest active streak among 54 LIV Golf players – ends next week. The last ‘major’ he didn’t play was the 2013 British Open, which was held a month before Reed won the first of his nine PGA Tour events.
By winning the 2018 Masters, Reed is a fixture for National Augusta every April. But his five-year exemption for the other three majors ran out last year. He received a special invitation to play a game of PGA Championship earlier this month, but when he made the cut at Valhalla, that inadvertently ended his chances of playing in the US Open.
Reed is scheduled to play a US Open qualifier in Dallas on May 20, the day after the final round of the PGA Championship. He chose that date because it fell on a week off from LIV Golf and it was the closest venue to his house. At that time he had not yet received the special invitation to the PGA, so there were no travel restrictions.
Then he received the invitation from the PGA. And then he made the cut, with a final score of 5 under par, tied for 53rd place. It ended at noon on Sunday at Louisville, Kentucky and the next day I have to leave before 8 in the morning at dallas to play the first of two qualifying rounds. That’s when he decided to fire himself.
“Playing in a big tournament, working hard for four days and then trying to get on a flight to get there… it’s just not doable,” Reed explained Thursday in Houston. “I had to do too many things to get there and prepare everything. It was not planned.”
There are still ten qualifying tournaments – nine in the United States and one in Canada – scheduled for June 3. But the registration deadline passed before Reed knew he would be leaving Dallas. So I have no other choice.
Since the majors continue to use world rankings for a large percentage of their fields, Reed and his LIV colleagues are at a disadvantage by not having ranking points for the big events.
Since his second-place finish at the 2023 Dubai Desert Classic in late January last year, Reed has played in 11 qualifying tournaments. He has four top 10s and eight top 25s, and has made the cut in every attempt. He was fourth at the 2023 Masters and has finished in the top 20 twice.
“I think the world rankings don’t reflect where I should be and what events I should participate in. But at the end of the day, I don’t make those decisions. They decide the special exemptions. of those decisions and I just have to live with it, keep doing what I’m doing and my philosophy is that if I don’t play that week, it’s time for me to step away from the game and spend time with my family and be a father Playing I play golf for a living, when I look at golf, I start to dissect everything and focus too much on it, instead of taking a week off, I want to dedicate that time to myself. family,” he concluded.
Source: La Verdad
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