Is Patrick Reed just bloody lucky?

[Depreston]

Didn’t take long for the Reed hate fest to begin

He absolutely stinks like

 

[Mel Smooth]

Patrick Reed is one of the nicest guys in the game.
Genuinely good bloke with a big heart. Let’s all try to stop punching down on the players that have reached levels in the game we can merely dream of

 

[Arthur Wedge]

Patrick Reed is one of the nicest guys in the game.
Genuinely good bloke with a big heart. Let’s all try to stop punching down on the players that have reached levels in the game we can merely dream o

Well that’s ok when he has been shown to be cheating


Ask his college golf team how much of a nice guy he is - cheating , stealing , being kicked off the team

 

[Fore Right]

Like him or Loathe him.
He is a fantastic golfer

 

[jim8flog]

The most anyone has on the PGA Tour is three apparently.

Wagner ties TOUR record with third albatross - PGA TOUR

ST. SIMONS ISLAND, Ga. – It may be called the rarest of birds, but not for Johnson Wagner. He holed a 3-wood shot Thursday to make the third albatross of his PG

www.pgatour.com

That is albatross , hole out in 2 on a par 4 and it is an eagle.

 

[Orikoru]

That is albatross , hole out in 2 on a par 4 and it is an eagle.

Yeah, I was looking at that because Reed did that in the US Open, that's all. I guess I forgot we were talking about eagle hole-outs as well.

 

[Voyager EMH]

Maybe there's a technical side to it - he is a draw player when most players are playing a fade these days. Maybe his typical shot is more likely to roll out a little bit, giving it more chance of rolling straight in the hole?

This prompted me to recall a chap at our club who had about 13 hole-in-ones.

He was small in stature, usually low double-figure handicap.
His shots were low draws with run. I never witnessed any of his aces, but played with him several times over the years.
I imagine all his aces pitched well short of the hole or even short of the green and ran into the hole.

I don't think my speculation or yours proves anything, but I find it thought provoking.

 

[Petercool]

This prompted me to recall a chap at our club who had about 13 hole-in-ones.

He was small in stature, usually low double-figure handicap.
His shots were low draws with run. I never witnessed any of his aces, but played with him several times over the years.
I imagine all his aces pitched well short of the hole or even short of the green and ran into the hole.

I don't think my speculation or yours proves anything, but I find it thought provoking.

Interesting I’ve seen 3 now all by people with handicaps about 18.

And they were all short of the green and rolled up and into the hole.

I’ve got a lot of NTP in comp but they nearly all land near the holes and stop.

Maybe I need to start running my shots into par 3s