A crashed half-million-dollar Porsche possibly owned by golf star Patrick Reed has sparked a huge mystery.
Joe Pompliano of TheDrive.com, tweeted photos of the car and provided the back story.
After winning the 2018 Masters, Reed seemingly purchased a $450,000 Porsche 911 GT2 RS. (There is such a thing as entry-level or low-end Porsches. This is not one of them.)
Only 1,000 of those Porsche models were manufactured in the U.S. If that didn’t make it unique enough, Reed had his painted in a custom Masters paint scheme, with yellow brake calipers.
That car recently turned up on an auto salvage website, totally wrecked.
After winning the 2018 Masters, Patrick Reed bought himself a $450,000 Porsche 911 GT2 RS.
There are only 1,000 of these cars in the US & his had a Masters-themed paint job & yellow calipers.
But this week, the car mysteriously appeared on a salvage website with just 360 miles. pic.twitter.com/Xq3o14Dgt1
— Joe Pompliano (@JoePompliano) April 27, 2023
That led to speculation about what happened. Had Reed wrecked it? Had the car been stolen? Had he sold it?
Pompliano admits there is no confirmation on whether it is Reed’s car, but there can’t be too many rare Porsches with Masters green paint schemes. Wait, there’s more — Pompliano reports the VIN number matches Reed’s car. He later reported that the car sold for $132,000.
Patrick Reed appears to be ok, and his team hasn't confirmed that it is even his car.
But the VIN is a match — and you can read more about it here: https://t.co/wNEbDvgukf
And this is the Copart listing: https://t.co/nfafko0aE2
— Joe Pompliano (@JoePompliano) April 27, 2023
Reed, who has won nine PGA Tour events including the 2018 Masters, is now a member of LIV Golf.
With no concrete evidence of what happened to that Porsche, Twitter users did what they do best, making fun of the situation.
The Reed for Speed
— mahkymayhem (@mahkymaYhem) April 27, 2023
He let Tiger borrow the car.
— Sean F (@Sean_levelpar) April 27, 2023
Shotgun start
— Cle (@alenin) April 27, 2023
[Joe Pompliano]; Photo credit: Joe Pompliano]