Patrick Reed Singles Out Rory McIlroy To Defend His Latest Rules Run-In
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This one warrants more investigation given the source and only a brief CBS showing of Rory McIlroy’s third shot on 18 at the Farmers. But in defending his latest rules run-in, Patrick Reed took to Twitter and suggested McIlroy took embedded ball relief at the 18th without calling an official. Beyond suggesting his situation was in the clear, it is not evident what the inference is beyond suggesting Reed is being unfairly targeted.
An account since deleted called YumYum Ravioli started this notion picked up by Reed.
Yes I just typed that.
The traditional Reed family burner account has also been pushing the McIlroy story in manic fashion after Saturday’s Farmers Insurance Open happenings.
A sampling of replies, of which there were way too many to link and post:
McIlroy discussed the Torrey Pines rough after his round but made no mention of any situation on 18.
However, Golf Channel’s Rich Lerner took to Twitter to validate Reed and YumYumRavioli’s claim based on reporting by Todd Lewis.
When I find video evidence or Golf Channel shows that incident, I’ll post it. But the suggestion is that the McIlroy behavior was questionable and hopefully the network will produce the goods Sunday.
**Staff, reporting from San Diego for PGATour.com has more on the McIlroy situation after tape surfaced Sunday and was aired on GolfChannel. McIlroy was cleared.
On the surface, the situation looks similar in the way the ball lands and supposedly “embeds”. However, what we don’t see is how McIlroy approached the ball or how quickly he put his hands on it. I find it hard to imagine it was anywhere near Reed’s search for a better lie.
It should be noted McIlroy had an equally horrible lie after his drop:
McIlroy discussed after the round:
