PGA TOUR Power Rankings: OHL Classic at Mayakoba

There’s no doubt that Patrick Reed is still one of the top golfers in the world. Even in what would easily be labeled a “down year” in 2016-17, Reed still finished in the top-25 in 15 of 29 events, and made the cut in 25. Heck, with the run he made on Sunday at the PGA Championship, it could easily have been Reed, and not Justin Thomas, breaking through for the first career major.

Of course, that’s all in the past now, and Reed is as eager as anybody to get back to the form he displayed in his breakout year of 2016.

In his six years on TOUR, Reed has never played at El Camaleon, but he’s been in solid enough form that he should be able to contend among this week’s field on basically raw talent alone. At the CJ Cup at Nine Bridges, Reed finished T-11 despite a third-round blowup 76. He did the same thing, but worse, a week later at the WGC-HSBC Champions, firing a third-round 82 and dropping to a tie for 50^th. When Reed closed out last season with four top-20 finishes in his last five starts, he wasn’t necessarily lighting up the leaderboard, but he was avoiding the crazy big numbers.

If Reed is going to step his game up in 2018, he’ll need to close out 2017 on a high note. Look for him to do just that this week in Mexico.