Okay, it's Monday, time for a @RotoWire golf thread on everybody's favorite golfer!

1) Patrick Reed won a tournament on Sunday and a lot of people were pissed off about it – that’s pretty much a perfect day for Reed, right?

2) The most controversial player in golf found himself, um, embedded in controversy once more over the weekend at Torrey Pines. Yet with thousand-watt klieg lights shining right in his face, he put his head down, looked straight ahead and ran away with the Farmers by 5 strokes.

3) It was an incredible mental performance but also a remarkable display of short-game skill. Reed ranked 31st in SG Off the Tee and 39th in SG Approach and his drives averaged only 288 yards on a track measuring nearly 7,800 yards.

4) But he overcame all that by ranking 1st in SG Around the Green, 9th in scrambling & 10th in SG Putting. Quite simply, there is no better golfer from 125 yds and in. And no matter how you feel about Reed, it’s cool to see this type of golf in this day and age of bomb and gouge.

5) Reed won for the 9th time on the PGA Tour, for the 4th consecutive season, for the 8th season in the past 9, and moved back into the top-10 in the world rankings at No. 10.

6) Among those nine wins are the Masters, two WGCs, two playoff events, the Tournament of Champions and now Torrey Pines. In his first win way back in 2013, he took down Jordan Spieth in a playoff at the Wyndham. Those are *all* big-boy wins.

7) If you can accept Reed for who is (and, yes, that’s way easier said than done), he is a very valuable fantasy option. I own him in one of my two season-long leagues. Not only does he play a lot and of course has many high finishes, he makes a ton of putts.

8) He not only avoids bogeys but makes lots of birdies: 4th in birdie avg and 3rd in bounce back (tenacity/determination). Rarely misses a cut – just 4 in past 26 events, including the Amex a week ago.

(How soul-crushing is it for you to bet on a golfer who keeps missing putts?)

9) As for the controversy, by now you all have seen it and saw it discussed ad nauseum on social media, CBS and Golf Channel. The upshot is, while many fellow pros said that Reed took liberties they never would -- or even cheated, the PGA Tour said he did nothing wrong.

10) So not only are many golf fans upset with Reed because they believe he cheated, they are also angry at the Tour for not agreeing with them (which, by the way, also pretty much doubles as metaphor for life on Twitter).

11) Reed now heads to the European Tour this week for the, of course, controversial tournament in Saudi Arabia. But we should see him back on the PGA Tour in three weeks at Rivera. And certainly back at Torrey Pines in five months, when he’ll be among the U.S. Open favorites.

12) No predictions just yet for how he’ll do at the Genesis Invitational, though in light of what happened at Torrey Pines, expect Reed to be on his best behavior.

I understand that in the minds of many of you, that’s a very low bar for Reed to clear.

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