Patrick Reed didn’t have the Green Jacket for more than five minutes before Twitter went on attack.
Everything Reed had ever done was posted so you would know he’s no Jordan Spieth. Everyone hated him at the University of Georgia. Everyone hated him at Augusta State but they put up with him because they won two National Championships. He doesn’t speak to his parents.
Reed is the imperfection we all are and for some reason, some don’t like this.
He isn’t built like he’s in the gym five days a week. Most of us aren’t. He doesn’t have the perception of the perfect family. Most of us know our family is far from being perfect.
The masses seem to turn away from Reed because he’s us. There is no perception of perfection. Instead of embracing seeing a guy just like us, we shun him. We invent some okey doke perception of who we should root for, which of course, is usually based on the person we WANT to root for. It’s the “faux morality” card. We can’t root for Tiger Woods because of his adultery but Bobby Petrino’s affair was nothing but a cocktail party punchline.
Reed is the latest to suffer from this sham. Instead of being celebrated for holding off both Spieth and Fowler, he’s being drowned in a sea of ridiculous manufactured outrage.
As Reed slipped on the Green Jacket, we should’ve celebrated that one of “us” won. There’s a lot of perfection in imperfection.
