Patrick Reed, I believe, got caught with his pants down.

There is no question he clearly cheated although he got away without penalty.

PGA should review the whole thing. There is no way that ball was embedded.

The ball did bounce and the rough was thick. Let's say he found the ball deep 

in the rough and the lie was bad. The ground was soft. So, he pushed the ball 

down to the ground. Then he picked up the ball and dropped it where the rough 

was shallow. When the official arrived, he put his finger to the hole he made

by pressing the ball down in the ground. The official put his finger in that 

ground hole and agreed with Reed. I don't see any other way the ball dropped 

from a few feet in the air dug into the ground covered with thick rough. He is 

a sneaky cheater. 

These videos and 2 above comments will help you to interprete this controversy yourselves. KJ

What a great imagination you have, Dr. Ohn,

yet a real description of what he likely did.

Patrick said he asked everybody including playing partners,

caddies and on-lookers whether or not they saw a bounce.

Once he heard none of them did, he decided to do what Dr. Ohn describes.

Patrick made a critical mistake not asking TV commentators and watchers,

including Nick Faldo who saw the bounce.

How in the world a weak bounce of a couple of feet into a thick rough

wound up being embedded unless something or somebody pushed it in.

We can prove he cheated by dropping one hundred golf balls from 2 or 3 feet height

on the same spot to see if any ball will be embedded.

What a not so smart cheater who proved himself to be a real cheater to the golfing world!

He should be disqualified from the tournament.

Thank you, KJ, for the videos.

By listening to what he said, he would not have picked up the ball if somebody had said

he saw the bounce admitting indirectly that a bounce would not have caused embedding

proving himself indirectly that his hand must've caused the embedding.

A lot of people agree with me. I searched YouTube on the incident this morning

And I found the comments on the video of the incidents 

saying that they thought Patrick Reed pressed the ball down to the ground by 

himself. Even though he called the official before he picked up the ball, 

he could have done it anyways. I am afraid he did it before in the similar 

situation.  

Patrick Reed won. So what?

Shame on you in spite of your being good enough to win.

Obviously winning for you is everything even if it takes cheating.

There is no such a thing to you as a personal honor or justice or pride by being honest

to your heart.

You belong to people like those Republican senators like Ted Cruz, Hawley, etc

who are smart Ivy League graduates who cheat and betray American democracy.

It is well known for many smart students to like to cheat in their school exams,

and I have witnessed many in my school days.

You are good and one of the best in pro golf but stinks because you are a cheater, I believe.

May God have mercy on you, young man!

Well said, Dr.Lee! I never stopped watching a golf tournaments on Sundays.

I wished him to collapse from the beginning, but he was playing better 

and better as the round went on. I was so disgusted and turned off the 

TV on the last 3 holes. 
 

I figure Golf is not the gentleman's game anymore. The rule should be 

applied by the referee, not the player. I think the rule about embedded 

lie should be abandoned. If a player does not want to play as the ball lies,

he or she should be charged with one penalty stroke and drop the ball within

two club-lengths like any other situation. Then no player will declare 

embedded lie when it actually is not or make it by himself.

"At the end of the day" (as Patrick said), the spectators (on TV) were the true victims.

Maybe, he looks to be a bit immature and an egomaniac like Trump.

Obviously, the ball was below the line of the grass in the rough, but not the ground.

I think the caddie saw what Patrick did and, having seen what happened, he seemed

to have gotten stuck where he was standing, a sort of indirect evidence.

The caddie got the reward today in the form of an increased tip.

As most of us recalled, Patrick Reed was the one, who refused to see
his parent at the time of win of Masters. I don't know detailed causes,
but anybody, who refused to share the one of most glorious moments in golf
with his parent must be problems in personality and characters in general.

Golf is gentleman's game and that was why, nobody has questioned Rory McIlroy's
incidence in even situation being quite similar. Reputation!, reputaion!, reputation!

He might be able to get away(심증 vs 물증) this time, but he should try his darnest efforts
to get his reputation back, because I don't want him wasting his God-given talent, which
we all had witnessed competition against mighty McIlroy at Ryder Cup with win.  KJ