Patrick Reed was 1-down in the opening match on Sunday at the Ryder Cup heading to the 303-yard par-4 fifth hole. Then this happened:
.@PReedGolf nearly holes out on No. 5.
FROM THE TEE!
WATCH: https://t.co/yVbXiqvy9y https://t.co/mbjwJjXj5g
— PGA.COM (@PGAcom) October 2, 2016
Did he make the putt for eagle on top off McIlroy’s birdie to square the match?
What do you think?
Patrick Reed … for eagle …
The crowd goes crazy. https://t.co/YYkLkAD9i9
— PGA TOUR (@PGATOUR) October 2, 2016
If Rory McIlroy keep play like Friday afternoon up, he’ll be taking a couple of bows.
As soon as Patrick Reed took to the first tee on Friday morning at Hazeltine National, you had a feeling that this session would belong to the Americans. He cupped his ear and motioned for the crowd to whip it up. They did and the U S of A followed suit – a 4-0 sweep of the morning matches. Dominance coming, right? Yeah, right.
There’s a reason why the Europeans have won eight of the last 10 of these things – these guys don’t quit. In the afternoon, Darren Clarke’s team made the charge that was expected, taking three of the four matches to cut the American lead to two points headed into Day 2:
Kaymer: One cool customer
Martin Kaymer may have done his best over the first three days of the Abu Dhabi HSBC Golf Championship to drain all sense of tension and mystery from the final day’s proceedings, but make no mistake, what the German accomplished this week (and Sunday in particular) was nothing short of phenomenal.
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