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It’s been a pretty solid year for Patrick Reed.
He won the Masters to secure his first major championship; finished fourth at the US Open; qualified comfortably for the US Ryder Cup team; and he’s currently sitting 12th on the FedEx Cup standings.
Give most people a year like that and they’d struggle to find anything to complain about.
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Reed, though, isn’t ‘most people’.
He took to social media last night to thank the PGA Tour for arranging free tickets to a Boston Red Sox baseball match for him, his wife and his sister-in-law.
Of the thousands who attended the match with the Miami Marlins at Fenway Park last night, it’s reasonable to assume that few needed free tickets less than a guy who has career earnings of more than $23million, but there you go.
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In any case, Reed’s thanks was more sarcastic than sincere.
He added: “I love how you put my wife, sister in law and myself in the line drive section. We paid $650 to upgrade our seats and ended up in the same section as the rest of the @PGATOUR! #frontrow”
That’s right – that’s a multi-millionaire professional golfer complaining the free tickets he was given weren’t good enough.
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Unsurprisingly, Reed’s comments didn’t elicit much sympathy from his 131,000 followers.
One user said: “I’m thinking you had 1 too many when you posted this.”
Another added: “Tier two player, tier two seats. Not sure what your beef is…”
@ridin_07 wrote: “I want to pull for you but at times I wonder. Be humble and thankful for all the things you have.”
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