Patrick Reed's Wife Justine Outed Herself as the Owner of the Infamous Burner Account @useGolfFACTS
Stuart Franklin. Getty Images.Long before LIV divided the golfing world down philosophical and financial lines, the most polarizing figures in the game were the power couple of Patrick and Justine Reed.
Patrick, for his penchant for loosely interpretation of the rules in way that always seems to save him strokes:
And Justine, for coming across as the PGA Tour version of a helicopter mom driving all the other Little League parents insane:
And together, most famously, bitching about the premium seats at Fenway the Tour gave them for the very reasonable price of $0.00:
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That was in 2018. And as Golf Digest correctly pointed out at the time, with Mookie Betts in the Red Sox lineup, every section was the line drive section.
But as is so often the case with bitchy, self-entitled celebrities, there was strong suspicion of a burner account in use. Specifically, the @useGolfFACTS account, that had long been assumed to be run by Justine for its unrelentingly positive pro-Patrick stands. And if there were any lingering doubts about it, they were removed by Justine herself with an incredible own-goal:
Source - No sport on earth does worst-kept secrets quite like golf. … Of all of golf’s unspoken certainties, however, none has been more obvious (or hilarious) in recent years than the identity of the infamous @useGolfFACTS Twitter admin.
Our big brothers at Golf Digest have dug deep into the suspiciously pro-Patrick Reed Twitter account in the past, and while no official conclusions were reached (Pat doesn’t need another lawsuit on his hands, let’s be honest), the overwhelming consensus is that the mastermind behind @useGolfFACTS is none other than Reed's wife Justine.
This has been neither confirmed nor denied by the Reeds, but in the wee hours of Monday morning we got the closest thing to an admission yet when a joke about Justine’s, um, specific taste in sporting-event seating prompted this instantly iconic reply:
This isn’t exactly Paul Bremer saying “Ladies and gentlemen, we got him.” It’s not the FBI finding Whitey Bulger kickin’ it in Santa Monica, but in the weird, wild, insular world of Golf Twitter, it's pretty darn close.
Before we go any further, A+ historical reference, Golf Digest. Well played by you:
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More to the point, you have to love the execution of the Sting operation that finally outed @useGolfFACTS. Laying a trap by making reference to a five year old dustup caused by the Reeds' utter self-important narcissism over the Sox tickets. It was a honey trap Justine just could not avoid walking straight into. All she had to do was put her phone down. Or simply hit the heart button under the Tweet. Then she could've gone on with the charade that hasn't fooled anyone, but at least gave her plausible deniability. Had she just left well enough alone, she would've been able to continue her double life of helping her husband with his short game, will posting glowing praise of him semi-anonymously online. But she blew it.
Let this be a lesson to all famous people trying to serve dual purposes on the internet. It's hard enough just being involved in multiple text threads at the same time. We've all sent a nonsensical reply to one thread because we were toggling back and forth to another. But the worst that happens there is you accidentally send the wrong inappropriate meme to the wrong person. And if you're on good enough terms to have each other's phone number, no harm, no foul. But trying to live two lives on Twitter is just asking for trouble. Sooner or later you're going to screw up, and be the subject of ridicule across the internet.
I'm sure when LIV gets back to the States in a few weeks, the galleries won't mention this though.