MEXICO CITY – Six years ago at a tournament formerly known as the WGC-Cadillac Championship, a round-faced Patrick Reed sidled into the media center looking the part with cowboy boots and an unrepentant smirk.
“I’ve worked so hard, I’ve won a lot in my junior career, did great things in [my] amateur career, was 6-0 in match play in NCAAs, won NCAAs two years in a row, got third individually one year, and now I have three wins out here on the PGA Tour,” he proclaimed.
“I just don’t see a lot of guys that have done that, besides Tiger Woods, and the other legends of the game.