It’s been since 2023 since the 4Aces have won a LIV Golf team title, a stretch of 27 starts, but Patrick Reed insisted this week that the team hasn’t gone into panic mode.
But Reed has played better of late, and he came into this week’s LIV Golf Dallas at Maridoe Golf Club in a good place after a top-25 finish at the U.S. Open at Oakmont. And the rest of the underperforming team, one that includes Dustin Johnson, Harold Varner III and Thomas Pieters, was also showing signs of trending upward.
So Reed had no worries about the side as it came to Texas, the state in which he lives.
“The team room has been fine. The golf aspect of it has just kind of been too up and down. You’ll have one or two guys play really well one day and then one or two of the guys don’t quite have it and then it flips the next day and things like that,” Reed said on Friday. “I feel like right now the team is playing really solid. We know TP will bounce back. His game actually looks pretty solid for the most part.
“The biggest thing is keep the throttle down.”
Reed, who shot a 67 in the opening round as did teammate Varner, did just that during Saturday’s second round. He finished with 68 and the 4Aces look poised to return to the podium if they can manage their way through Sunday. The team holds a 4-stroke lead with one round to play.
“It would mean a lot, obviously, to win in your home state,” Reed said. “But really to me, honestly, it doesn’t matter where it is. Winning a golf tournament is winning a golf tournament. The adrenaline and that feeling of standing up on stage and hoisting that trophy is an amazing feeling. It doesn’t really matter where you’re at or anything like that.
“But doing it in my home state would be special for sure. But we’ve got a long way to go.”
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