REED RILED BY RADAR

Pat reacts to probing

PATRICK REED snapped at Sky Sports interviewer Wayne “Radar” Riley after the controversial American star won the Wgc-mexico Championship.

Former Masters winner Reed took the biggest title of the year so far despite continuing criticism of a two-shot penalty for improving his lie in a bunker at December’s Hero World Challenge.

World No.2 Brooks Koepka said last week his Ryder Cup team-mate had been “building sandcastles”, while coach Peter Kostis claimed he had seen Reed “improve his lie, up close and personal, four times”.

After his one-shot win at Chapultepec Golf Club where he finished 18 under par, Aussie Riley asked Reed if he felt he had silenced his critics.

The new world No.8 said: “It really doesn’t matter to me.

“I’m continuing to do what I am supposed to do and that is trying to play the best golf I can and trying to give an example.

“If I feel I’m doing that, that is all I can ask for.”

But off camera, Reed turned to Riley and said, “Way to ask that one” about his line of questioning before runner-up Bryson Dechambeau arrived to congratulate the new leader of the Race to Dubai.

Asked later if he feels like the world is against him, 29-year-old Reed added: “I’m used to it. Honestly, it’s one of those things that at the end of the day all I can control is me and what I do on and off the golf course.

“If I feel like I’m improving each day on and off the golf course and setting a good example for the next generation coming up – the children, as well as my own children – then that’s all I can do.

“And I feel like I’ve been doing a good job of that, I feel like I’ve been growing as a person and as a golfer and that’s all I can really do.”

World number one Mcilroy started the final round four shots off the pace and made an early charge with birdies at the first, third and sixth.

But the Ulsterman bogeyed the 12th and had to settle for a closing 68 and fifth place.