Rory McIlroy

LIV Golf star Patrick Reed throw a tee in the direction of Rory McIlroy after the two rival players crossed paths on the driving range at this week's Dubai ...

Tweeting after shooting a four-under-par 68 in the opening round of the Farmers Insurance Open, Homa joked: "Had a nice time on the course today. His round one and two playing partner was quick to respond, as Morikawa responded: "Was so close to throwing a tee at you but you’re too nice." He saw me and he decided not to not to react. It has seemingly encapsulated the golfing world with tensions already high, however Homa and Morikawa could not help but see the funny side. Both Reed and McIlroy are in action at this week's Dubai Desert Classic on the DP World Tour. Labelling the four-time major champion an 'immature little child', Reed said: "walked over there and wished Harry [Diamond, McIlroy’s caddie] Happy New Year and then Rory, because it is the first time I have seen them.

The world number one had an frosty encounter with America's Patrick Reed in Dubai. | UTV News.

Following this, Reed appeared to flick a tee in McIlroy's direction. "I was subpoenaed by his lawyer on Christmas Eve. Rory McIlroy has given his views on fellow golfer Patrick Reed after a video emerged on social media appearing to show the American flick a golf tee in his direction.

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Patrick Reed is also no stranger to controversy, having changed colleges due to a misdemeanour charge for underage drinking, criticising his Ryder Cup captain Jim Furyk and colleague Jordan Spieth after a dramatic defeat in France as well as law infringements on the course. "I didn't see a tee coming my direction at all, but apparently that's what happened. It was kind of a funny shot back. So trying to have a nice time with my family and someone shows up on your doorstep and delivers that, you're not going to take that well. "Harry shook my hand and Rory just looked down there and was messing with his Trackman (ball-tracker) and decided to ignore me. “So I didn’t see a tee coming my direction at all, but apparently that’s what happened.

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Two-time USPGA champion Justin Thomas joined a handful of other PGA Tour golfers in providing light-hearted reactions to tee-gate between Rory McIlroy and ...

"I got a subpoena on Christmas Eve. Groups 23 to 44 won't play today, but McIlroy gets underway at 13.45 local time. "So I didn't see a tee coming in my direction at all, but apparently that's what happened.

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“I’m living in reality, I don’t know where he’s living. “So I didn’t see a tee coming my direction at all, but apparently that’s what happened. I didn’t feel the need to acknowledge him. [Christmas](https://www.belfastlive.co.uk/all-about/christmas) Eve. A number of LIV players are back in DP World Tour action this week despite the breakaway series' ongoing legal dispute with the Wentworth-based circuit. [Rory McIlroy reacts to Patrick Reed tee incident in Dubai](https://www.belfastlive.co.uk/sport/other-sport/golf/rory-mcilroy-reacts-patrick-reed-26067181)

It's not just that Rory once lived in the Middle East, but that he has played the Dubai Desert Classic 12 previous times, won twice and finished in the top ...

And for the 44 rounds he has played since he missed the cut in his first start 17 years ago, he is a staggering 130 under par, having broken 70 as many as 26 times. 10—“I put the clubs away for a few weeks after that; I was pretty mentally and physically drained”—his past performances on the 7,301-yard Karl Litton-design augur well for his prospects of adding a 15th DP World Tour victory to his already burgeoning résumé. It was a bit of a hanging lie. It was just a bad swing at the wrong time. Indeed, if memory serves him well, McIlroy is likely to be the man to beat this week. His average score is almost exactly 69, his lowest effort 63, a score he opened with in 2014. “It was just a bad swing. Needing a birdie 4 to reach 13 under par for the week and win by a shot from eventual champion Viktor Hovland and Richard Bland, the four-time major champion dumped his approach in the water fronting the putting surface, made 6 and lost by one. At least in his own mind, McIlroy feels like he has a little score to settle. Despite the inherent triviality of the brief encounter between the two major champions, the inordinate level of fuss and bother caused distracted from the significance this tournament has always had in McIlroy’s heart and mind. — Torrential rain that began Wednesday afternoon, paused, then resumed overnight to make the Emirates Golf Club inaccessible for a time in turn caused what became a six-hour, five-minute delay to the opening round of the Hero Dubai Desert Classic. That honor must go, of course, to the

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“We still have quite a bit of work to do, but hopefully this year it won’t be quite as taxing.” As far as the mental drainage, “all of it” came from his avid support of the PGA Tour in its battle against LIV Golf. “So there’s no point in just being a mouthpiece when you can’t back that up by playing good golf and showing people the rewards people can have out here if they are playing well.”

Rory McIlroy was mounting a recovery from a slow start to the Hero Dubai Desert Classic when play was suspended.

Three English players – Matthew Jordan, Daniel Gavins and Oliver Wilson – held the clubhouse lead after shooting rounds of 4-under 68. He had to leave the course just as he was lining up a birdie putt from inside 4 feet on No. McIlroy got in 15 holes before the siren sounded to suspend play because of fading light.

Unseasonably heavy rain caused a more than six hours delay to the start of the Hero Dubai Desert Classic, with the result that only a handful of players – among ...

“It’s certainly strange to see water hazards and stuff in places that you don’t expect to be there whatsoever,” he remarked. Another product of Holywood Golf Club, the 20-year-old birdied the 18th to get the run going and then birdied the first (35 feet), second (12 feet) and third (38 feet) only for all that work to be cruelly undone with three straight bogeys on the fourth, fifth and sixth holes and a triple-bogey seven on the eighth hole after a wild drive down the right into bushes. Rory McIlroy had one of those days where he was required to dig deep to stay afloat.

Patrick Reed reckons his 'Teegate' spat with Rory McIlroy at the Hero Dubai Desert Classic has been blown out of proportion, insisting it was “nothing” and ...

“Ach, it was just a bad, bad, bad, bad, bad back nine. “At the same time, I am never for taking shots at somebody without doing it to their face. If you can’t to their face, there is no point doing it at all.” “It just shows you how immature some people can be and how funny some people can be. I was over it when it happened. “Honestly, you are all blowing up this so-called ‘Teegate’ way bigger than it really is,” said the 32-year-old, who, on a day when only four groups completed their round following a delay of six hours and five minutes, covered 16 holes in four-under to sit one shot off the lead.

Patrick Reed put aside his row with Rory McIlroy and a six-hour weather delay to make an impressive start to the Dubai Desert Classic.

Tommy Fleetwood was four under and facing a 15ft birdie putt on the par-three seventh, his 16th hole, when play resumes. Patrick Reed is four under par and a shot behind leader Thomas Pieters with three holes left to play; watch the Dubai Desert Classic live on Sky Sports on Friday "If you shoot a good score here, you enjoy it," Jordan said.

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If you work for a company for 20 years and you then leave to go to a rival company, I can promise you your picture won't still be on the wall.’ Reed handled the late start with five birdies and a solitary bogey at 10. Thomas Pieters of Belgium leads at five under with three to play. At four under par through 16 holes, before bad light caused the suspension of play, he is only a single shot off the lead here. By the morning of Thursday’s first round, lines of communication were seemingly on their way to being re-opened. He departed with a broad grin and the world continues to turn.

Golf's storm in a tee-cup between Rory McIlroy and Patrick Reed escalated very quickly on Wednesday as these two world-class golfers traded barbs.

It's nice to think that this means that it's all good again between me and Rory, but I was with my caddie and coach at the time, so he might have been telling them. But when we were on steps of the hotel where we are both staying, Rory came up and said 'you don't have to go yet, we aren't playing for a while'. 'I woke up at 5am and was on my way to get a car to get here for my 7.40am tee-off time,' Reed explained. World No 44 Mito Pereira is expected to cross over and it is believed the Saudi-backed tour are pushing for Belgium's Thomas Pieters. Yep, and the evidence of that emerged on Twitter. He then pulls what we now know to be a tee from his pocket and kind of casually tosses it to the ground close to where McIlroy is crouching. That could have been the end of it. He added: 'He saw me and he decided not to react. [Last August, McIlroy said](/sport/sportsnews/article-11156917/LIV-Golf-RIPPED-golf-apart-blasts-Rory-McIlroy-saying-HATES-sport.html): 'I hate what it [LIV] is doing to the game of golf. But it's definitely a storm in a teacup. Others don't mind a natter with fellow pros on the course. I didn't see a tee, I didn't feel a tee.

Patrick Reed, one day after 'Teegate,' told Irish Golfer that he met Rory McIlroy again. “I'll take it as a small victory.”

“Sorry to take this subject with Patrick on the range yesterday a bit further, but Patrick Reed said to you, he shook hands with Harry, wishing him a happy new year, put his hand out to wish you a happy new year, in a goal, sort of approach, to try and mend bridges. To read the complete Golf Digest story, [please click here](https://www.golfdigest.com/story/patrick-reed-dubai-desert-classic-day-1-success-tee-gate-rory-mcilroy). In his role, he is responsible for editing, writing and developing stories across the golf space. “I didn’t see it,” McIlroy said. “It’s hilarious; it is funny,” Reed added. If you can’t do that, there is no point doing it at all.” “I mean, exactly, right,” McIlroy said. “So I didn’t see a tee coming my direction at all, but apparently that’s what happened. On Tuesday, on the Emirates range, Reed walked up to McIlroy, caddie Harry Diamond and coach Michael Bannon. Though I’m not sure if Rory was acknowledging me, my coach, my caddy or all three of us, but whatever, I’ll take it as a small victory.” [short golf-range confrontation between the two](https://golf.com/news/rory-mcilroy-patrick-reed-tee-incident/) that featured a brush off, a LIV Golf tee toss and countless comments and memes afterward, Reed said he met McIlroy again, early Thursday morning outside of a hotel near Emirates Golf Club, where they were playing the DP World Tour’s Dubai Desert Classic. Thursday play at the event had been delayed due to storms.

Patrick Reed fared better than Rory McIlroy after some pre-tournament friction as the Dubai Desert Classic got off to a wet start on Thursday, ...

Half the field had yet to get on the course and will start their first rounds Friday. 2 and 3, and was lining up a birdie putt from inside 4 feet on No. He got up and down from a greenside bunker for birdie at No. 10 in his first event of 2023 and Reed opening at the first hole. [traded barbs Wednesday](/golf/story/_/id/35522668/rory-mcilroy-snubs-patrick-reed-no-mood-reconciliation) after an interaction of sorts at the practice range on Tuesday that saw McIlroy snub Reed, who had gone over to wish the Northern Irishman a happy new year. [Thomas Pieters](https://www.espn.com/golf/player/_/id/9031/thomas-pieters) was leading at 5-under, though he also had three holes to play.

Patrick Reed was filmed flicking a tee at Rory McIlroy after the world No.1 refused to acknowledge him ahead of the Dubai Desert Classic earlier this week ...

During his opening round at the Hero Dubai Desert Classic today Reed noticed a group of reporters and jokingly flicked one of his Team Aces LIV in their direction. However, when the Northern Irishman failed to acknowledge him Reed stormed away and [threw a tee](https://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/golf/liv-golf-patrick-reed-spat-29039855) in McIlroy's direction. "Honestly, what happened this week was really nothing but then it turned into the huge “tee-gate” with assassination on both sides," Reed added. "It was kind of a funny shot back," Reed added. Reed hit back at the four-time major tournament champion calling him an 'immature little child' for ignoring his welcome wishes. "So again, I'm living in reality, I don't know where he's living.