Nike says no red & black on Sunday for Patrick Reed

Patrick Reed will trade his traditional Tiger Woods red and black for pink on Masters Sunday.

Patrick Reed and Tiger Woods will both tee it up in the final round of the Masters but only one of them will don his trademark Sunday red and black.

Here’s a hint: It won’t be Captain America, who has for years, as a tribute to Woods, favored a red shirt and black trousers, usually on the last day of tournaments.

But the wardrobe switch has nothing to do with Tiger being in the field, though the four-time Masters champ, at 4-over through three rounds, is likely to be long gone by the time the 54-hole leader starts the finale in the last group alongside Rory McIlroy. No, it’s actually Nike, Woods’ long-time sponsor and also Reed’s clothier, dictating the change.

“Nike [is] doing a new thing where all all the players stay in the same kind of story line,” Reed, who will don a pink polo in his attempt to win his first major, told reporters after carding a 6-under 66 on Friday. “So all the players will either be in this color or that gray, grayish black today and yesterday and then all of us will be in the same color tomorrow and Saturday and Sunday.”

Reed, the king of DGAF, wore Tiger’s traditional outfit when the two played together in the second round of the 2014 Hero World Challenge.

The five-time PGA Tour winner said that week that he began a few years earlier wearing red and black on Fridays to help kick-start his round and “seemed to play pretty well in it.”

We imagine that Woods, who is unlikely to be included in the “all the players” category, retains the right to suit up in his signature colors on Masters Sunday.