Reed: It’s a slap in the face..
LIV Golf rebel Patrick Reed has described the treatment he has received from the DP World Tour since making the Saudi switch as a ‘slap in the face’.
Reed made the move to LIV earlier this summer, and has competed in four of the series’ five events, winning £5.4million in the process.
Reed - alongside the rest of his fellow defectors - has received plenty of criticism, especially when he and 17 other LIV golfers made a contentious return to the DP World Tour this month to compete at the BMW PGA Championship at Wentworth.
After returning to the Saudi-backed series last week, the American is back in DP World Tour action this week at the French Open.
Despite still pledging his support to the Wentworthbased circuit amid his new LIV commitments, Reed has been left less than impressed with the way he has been shunned by the tour.
Speaking to French outlet Journal Du Golf, he said: “It’s a slap in the face not to invite me to the press conference, or not to have me play the pro-am and all those things.
“At the end of the day, it’s just my golf that I have control over.
“I’m here to support the Tour, France and all the people who are here.
“But I don’t see why we can’t move from the LIV to the European Tour like we usually move from the PGA Tour to the European Tour.
“A lot of players understand and support my choice and have nothing against me.
“I didn’t feel any animosity against me from them.”
As well as his appearances at Wentworth and in
France, Reed has also committed to competing in another DP World Tour event at the Alfred Dunhill Links Championship at St Andrews at the end of
the month.