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Georgia fans have strong reaction to former UGA golfer Patrick Reed winning Masters

Patrick Reed was an unpopular choice to win the 2018 Masters.
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Spenser Davis

Former Georgia golfer Patrick Reed held off Rickie Fowler and Jordan Spieth on Sunday afternoon to clinch his first Masters championship.

While Reed is a former Bulldogs golfer, he’s not popular in Athens. He was kicked off the team following a string of incidents and bad behavior, and ultimately ended up at Augusta State.

Here are a couple of excerpts on Reed’s college days and his parents Bill and Jeanette from Shane Ryan’s book, Slaying the Tiger:

“During a qualifying round prior to a tournament, according to sources, Reed hit a ball far into the rough. When he approached the spot, he found another ball sitting closer to the fairway, and was preparing to hit it when several of his teammates confronted him. Reed plead ignorance, but the other Georgia players were convinced he had been caught red-handed trying to cheat. That same fall, several items went missing from the Georgia locker room, including a watch, a Scotty Cameron putter, and $400 cash. When Reed showed up the next day with a large wad of cash, sources say a teammate confronted him and asked how he’d come by the money. Reed said he’d played golf with a professor at the school and hustled him out of the cash. The player in question took this claim to the professor, who had no idea what he was talking about—it had been weeks since the man had played with Reed.”

“In addition, the arrest for intoxication—when Reed was found drunk at 2:30 a.m. on campus—was only the first of two alcohol violations. The second came hot on the heels of the first, during the week of a Georgia football game. That day, Reed and a friend had loaded up on alcohol before leaving for the game. (To Bill and Jeannette, the drinking was a new side of Reed—he had never had much of a social life at all in high school, and though he had the odd girlfriend here and there, drinking was never part of his agenda. Their theory today is that Patrick was trying to fit in on a college campus where he felt desperately alone.) Later that night, near Atlanta, he was arrested again on a second alcohol charge.”

It doesn’t help his case that he was spotted decked out in Notre Dame gear when the Bulldogs traveled to South Bend last fall:

Georgia fans — and golf fans in general — weren’t happy to see Reed walk away with the green jacket. Here’s some of the best reaction from the afternoon:

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