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Patrick Reed is ready to return to the UK later in August to play within the inaugural St Andrews Bay Championship.
The 2018 Masters champion is one in every of a number of LIV gamers to tee it up within the $1.5m occasion within the twelfth leg of the 2023 Asian Tour and the sixth cease on its Worldwide Collection. Reed, 32, joins Sergio Garcia and Joaquin Niemann amongst a number of gamers from the LIV roster on the Torrance Course at Fairmont St Andrews simply 4 miles from the Previous Course on the ‘Residence of Golf’.
The 7,230-yard venue, beforehand host on the DP World Tour and European Seniors Tour in addition to being a venue for Open Qualifying, will now welcome numerous LIV gamers together with South Africans Dean Burmester and Branden Grace, Australian Matt Jones, Spaniard Eugenio Chacarra, Colombian Sebastian Munoz, New Zealander Danny Lee and Austrian Bernd Wiesberger.
However it’s Reed who has carried out greatest at this 12 months’s Majors following a share of fourth at Augusta in April, joint 18th on the PGA Championship, tied for 56th on the US Open and equal thirty third on the Open.
Forward of the occasion from 24-27 August, Cho Minn Thant, Asian Tour Commissioner & Chief Govt Officer, mentioned: “We’ve had some sturdy fields at our Worldwide Collection occasions up to now and the St Andrews Bay Championship isn’t any exception. It’s fantastic to have such distinguished gamers compete extra often on the Asian Tour because the institution of the Worldwide Collection and this undoubtedly validates the Asian Tour’s progress into a world Tour.
“I do know this may encourage and encourage our Asian Tour members to boost their video games. It’s a improbable alternative for them to check themselves towards real world-class gamers at a world-class venue.”
Winner of 9 tournaments worldwide, Reed achieved his highest world rating of sixth in June 2020 and is fourth within the particular person LIV standings after serving to the 4 Aces high the group occasion.
Patrick Reed with the Masters trophy in 2018 (Picture credit score: Getty Pictures)
Within the 2022 LIV Golf Invitational collection, he was within the top-five 3 times, together with a runner-up spot in Bangkok, and completed fourth within the Particular person Champion standings.
As LIV Golf is just not accredited by the Official World Golf Rating system, LIV members like Reed, who’s ranked fiftieth, have chosen to play the Asian Tour to nonetheless get factors and assist them safe entry to the Majors.
A part of the Asian Tour’s 2023 ‘UK Summer season Swing’, the St Andrews occasion will probably be preceded by the Worldwide Collection England, at Shut Home in Newcastle.
The Asian Tour’s Worldwide Collection contains 10 occasions, that includes elevated prize funds. Following the primary 4 Worldwide Collection occasions of 2023, American Andy Ogletree leads the best way within the general standings.
Within the meantime, Reed and the 4 Aces are attributable to be again in LIV motion on Friday on the Previous White at The Greenbrier.