Patrick Reed savours the tranquillity offered on Augusta’s fairways

Last year’s Masters champion has relished his time as a first-time major winner and admits life is simpler for him on the course

Midway through Patrick Reed’s champion’s press conference last year, after all the pleasantries and platitudes were out of the way, someone ventured a polite but pointed question about whether he thought he was popular with the fans. Reed flashed an unconvincing grin and said: “I feel like I have a lot of fans around here.”

It is true he should do. His parents live locally and he went to school here, at Augusta State, and helped it win NCAA championships back-to-back in 2010 and 2011. Only – like another local pro, Kevin Kisner, said not so long ago – a lot of the people who played with Reed back then “all hate him”. Kisner added: “I don’t know that they’d piss on him if he was on fire.”

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