Press beware! When LIV golf defector Patrick Reed sued almost everyone at the Golf Channel
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One of the best in the business, Patrick Reed surprised everyone when he defected to the LIV golf league in June this year. Following the development, Reed received a lot of criticism from golf opinion leaders and members of the press considering LIV is backed by Saudi Arabia and is a huge threat to the PGA Tour.
However, Reed wasn’t impressed with some of what certain journalists took the liberty to say about him after his switch from PGA. What transpired ultimately was that Reed not only sued the Golf Channel, which was at the forefront of Reed’s criticism, but also its employees Damon Hack, Shane Bacon and Eamon Lynch, along with parent companies Golfweek and Gannett, as defendants in a September 2022 lawsuit.
According to reports, the lawsuit details how Golf Channel journalists targeted Reed by bringing up his old controversies and linking them to his LIV golf switch.
In fact, the suit claims that Golf Channel and the said parties carried out “a pattern and practice of defaming Mr. Reed, misreporting information with actual knowledge of falsity and/or reckless disregard of the truth, that is with actual and constitutional malice, purposely omitting pertinent key material facts to mislead the public, and actively targeting Mr. Reed since he was 23 years old, to destroy his reputation, create hate, and a hostile work environment for him, with the intention to discredit his name and accomplishments.”
Reed joined the Saudi-backed LIV Golf earlier this year for a whopping sum of £50 million. After joining the rebel league, the American golfer said that he is joining them to spend quality time with his family.
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Patrick Reed once withdrew from a tournament because the hotel mattress was “too soft”
One of the strangest reasons imaginable is that a soft mattress in a French hotel caused LIV Golf star Reed to injure his back leading up to the DP World Tour’s Alfred Dunhill Lynx at St Andrew’s last month. It meant, he had to withdraw from the championship.
It would have been Reed’s third European Event in four weeks if the 32-year-old golfer has participated in Dunhill Lynx. The earlier two Championships he had also participated in were the BMW PGA Championship and Open de France.
“The mattress was just too soft for me,” Reed said. “I played well in the pro-am but the pain in my back was getting worse.”
Despite cashing in on millions from his LIV golf deal, Reed’s world ranking has suffered big time. He is no longer ranked in the world’s top 50. The American golfer will slip even further after being forced out by the freak mattress injury.
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Ashish Maggo
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