{"id":438496,"date":"2026-01-30T08:16:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-30T08:16:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/438496\/"},"modified":"2026-01-30T08:16:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-30T08:16:07","slug":"patrick-reed-cards-71-in-bahrain-adds-qatar-masters-to-slate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/438496\/","title":{"rendered":"Patrick Reed cards 71 in Bahrain, adds Qatar Masters to slate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jan 29, 2026, 11:07 AM ET<\/p>\n<p>AL MAZROWIAH, Bahrain &#8212; <a data-player-guid=\"f35e551e-8602-99fc-d022-187826e10090\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/golf\/player\/_\/id\/5579\/patrick-reed\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Patrick Reed<\/a> decided to extend his Middle East stay and then salvaged a 1-under 71 in the Bahrain Championship, where <a data-player-guid=\"22574dc0-0259-d84f-5107-8dce09b49bcb\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/golf\/player\/_\/id\/11465\/alejandro-del-rey\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Alejandro Del Rey<\/a> and <a data-player-guid=\"75b14a75-24eb-323e-8096-96300e32a014\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/golf\/player\/_\/id\/483722\/freddy-schott\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Freddy Schott<\/a> shared the lead at 65 when the first round was halted by darkness on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Reed, who won the Dubai Desert Classic and then <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/golf\/story\/_\/id\/47754948\/patrick-reed-planning-return-pga-tour-liv-golf-august\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">chose to leave LIV Golf<\/a> so he can return to the PGA Tour, entered next week&#8217;s Qatar Masters. That would give him four straight starts in the Middle East to start the year on the European tour.<\/p>\n<p>Editor&#8217;s Picks<\/p>\n<p>2 Related<\/p>\n<p>His goal now is to finish high enough in the Race to Dubai &#8212; he currently is No. 2 &#8212; to earn full status on the PGA Tour in 2027.<\/p>\n<p>Reed was 1 over until birdies on consecutive par 5s on the back nine, both times hitting wedge to tap-in range to get his round back under par.<\/p>\n<p><a data-player-guid=\"6e28fbb6-f273-87a2-10a8-8e2ed5dab19a\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/golf\/player\/_\/id\/5550\/laurie-canter\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Laurie Canter<\/a>, who gave up a PGA Tour card to join LIV, was among those one shot behind.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jan 29, 2026, 11:07 AM ET AL MAZROWIAH, Bahrain &#8212; Patrick Reed decided to extend his Middle East&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":429506,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[71],"tags":[427,99],"class_list":["post-438496","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-golf","tag-golf","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/438496","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=438496"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/438496\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/429506"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=438496"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=438496"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=438496"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}