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Patrick Reed was less than happy with how he performed at the Masters. Toward the end of the third round, Reed was lining up his shot and it seemed as if he did not get what he wanted, with his ball landing amid the trees.
Once he saw where the ball was headed, he succinctly summed up his performance in an X-rated way only he can. "You f***ing suck. Can you make a good golf swing today, please?" Reed was overheard saying to himself after his swing.
"Miss it. Hit it hard. I don't know where it went." After his round, the LIV Golf star shared how even his caddie, Kessler Karain, did not think Reed performed up to his standard heading into the Masters.
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"Walking up that 18th hole and seeing my ball in that big-leafed tree on the right again where I could barely advance the golf ball, and my caddie staring at me in the face and saying: 'Your driving has cost us a lot this week,'" the 33-year-old added, via Golf.com. He added that his performance was awful because of his inability to drive the ball where he wanted it to go.
"I drove it poorly," Reed continued. "Hit my irons all over the place, couldn't figure out my yardage. Then when I did figure out the yardage, I hit it above the hole. Had to putt defensive all day."
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Overall, Reed was generally unhappy with how he played and ranted to reporters about it. He called his experience "frustrating" and claimed nothing "good" came out of his showing at the Masters because of how much he left on the table with his play.
Patrick Reed couldn't hold his emotions after a particularly rough round at the Masters (Photo by Jamie Squire/Getty Images)"It was one of those days, when you did hit a good golf shot, you left yourself above the hole," he continued. "So I was putting defensive, having the biggest breaking putts and the fastest putts.
"When you have to do that you here, especially late in the afternoon, the greens get firmer, get glassier, and it's had to hole putts. I think that showed throughout our entire group today. We were talking about it a second ago int here, five birdies as a group. We made two birdies on par-5s total as a group.
"Around here, I mean, you have to eat these par-5s alive. With it being benign winds today, the only one I would say is really challenging is 15. With the back tee, the tee is pushed back a little bit and into the wind. When we got to that hole, it seemed like the wind started to pick up a little bit. There's no chance to get home."
In the end, Reed finished tied for 12th, shooting an even-par 72 on the final day to finish at 1-over. Reed won the Masters in 2018 and since then, he's had three top-10 finishes including tying for fourth in 2023.
More than anything, Reed attributed his rough go in the latter days of the tournament to just having a bad day.
"Yeah, just kind of one of those days at that far left pin like that on 18. You have to figure out a way to either get to the perfect number on a wedge or luck out by going for it and putting it in the right spot. Yeah, just a frustrating day, but you never know."