Sunday caps an eventful week, to say the least.
On Monday, SiriusXM host Sway Calloway hosted a “special town hall broadcast” in Oakland in which he asked Koepka, among other things, whether Reed cheated.
“Uh, yeah. I think, yeah — yeah,” he responded. “I mean, I don’t know what he was doing, building sand castles in the sand, but, you know, you know where your club is. I mean, I took three months off and I can promise you I know if I touched sand.
“It’s one of those things where you know. If you look at the video, obviously he grazes the sand twice and then he still chops down on it.”
Kostis added on, saying on the No Laying Up podcast he’s seen multiple instances of Reed committing similar rules violations.
“I’ve seen Patrick Reed improve his lie, up close and personal, four times now,” Kostis said, before explaining one of the situations, which happened in 2016, when Reed won The Barclays at Bethpage Black. “That’s the only time I ever shut [Gary] McCord up. He didn’t know what to say, when I said, ‘Well, the lie that I saw originally wouldn’t have allowed for this shot.’ Cause he put four or five clubs behind the ball, kinda faking whether or not he was going to hit this shot or that shot. By the time he was done, he hit a freaking 3-wood out of there. It was a sand wedge lay-up originally.”
Reed’s rules fiasco ignited the golf world in December, when he was assessed a two-stroke penalty for improving his lie in a waste area at the Hero World Challenge. The ruling came after Golf Channel cameras captured Reed brushing away sand from behind his ball with two practice swings. Reed accepted the penalty and argued his actions were accidental.
After the first round Thursday, Reed said he was focused just on his play.
“I said what I have to say about what happened in the Bahamas,” Reed said, “and at the end of the day, all I’m trying to do is go out and play good golf and trying to win a golf championship.”
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