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SAN DIEGO – On a bright Saturday by the sea, Patrick Reed suddenly found himself in the epicenter of a storm of controversy. After torching the front nine of the South Course in the third round of the Farmers Insurance Open at Torrey Pines, Reed took to the 10th tee with a four-shot lead. His tee shot, however, found a bunker left of the fairway. From an awkward lie, Reed hit a 132-yard, 8-iron that landed left of the cart path left of the green. And that’s when things got interesting. As he neared the ball, Reed asked volunteers if the ball had bounced. They said they had not seen the ball bounce – although replay showed the ball did bounce before settling deep into the rough. Reed’s playing partners, Robby Shelton and Will Gordon, also said they had not seen the ball bounce. Nor did the three caddies in the group. Farmers Insurance Open: Leaderboard | PhotosThus, Reed alerted his playing partners that he was going to check if the ball was embedded. He picked up the ball, put his finger into a hole in the ground, and decided the ball was embedded. Then he called for a rules official to make sure the ball had been embedded and the official, Brad Fabel, declared it was. Reed was allowed to take a free drop due to the embedded ball and made par. Many others took to social media to say Reed, who was involved in a rules controversy in the 2019 Hero World Challenge in the Bahamas, took liberty with the rules. Some were moved to use the “C” word that ends in heater. Reed met with rules official John Mutch after the round to review the incident. Patrick Reed on the 14th hole as caddie Kessler Karain looks on during the third round of the Farmers Insurance Open at Torrey Pines. (Orlando Ramirez-USA TODAY Sports)“When we got up there, first thing you do is you obviously ask, did you see the ball bounce, and if they say no, at that point I marked it to check to see if it was embedded,” Reed said during his media interview. “It definitely broke the plane. So from that point, called the rules official over and the rules official comes over and he checks to make sure it’s broken the plane and he agreed.“When you have three players, three caddies and the volunteer’s really close to the golf ball not seeing the ball bounce, then you have to go by what everyone sees and what everyone saw. When no one has seen that, then the rules official basically say whether it’s free relief or not, and the rules official agreed that the ball has broken the plane and it was relief.“It’s an unfortunate situation obviously, but at the end of the day when you finish a round and the head rules official comes up to you and has the video and shows everything that went down to the whole group and says that you’ve done this perfectly, you did this the exact right way, the protocols you did were spot on, at that point, you know, I feel great about it.”Mutch said Reed did nothing improper.


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