Achieved his first major title at the 2018 Masters, beating Rickie Fowler by a stroke eight months after being a joint runner-up in the PGA Championship.
Winner of The Junior Open in 2006 during the same week that The Open was at Hoylake, Reed made his Championship debut there in 2014 and has since made it into the world’s top seven and been part of the last three Ryder Cups.
Although USA lost at Gleneagles in 2014 he was their top-scorer and unbeaten, also making his presence felt with a "shush" gesture to the crowd, and at Hazeltine he again top-scored for his team and in a sparkling top singles clash defeated Rory McIlroy on the final green.
The Texan had already won twice on the PGA Tour when he became, at 23, the youngest winner of a World Golf Championship event.
That was the 2014 Cadillac Championship in Miami and he began the following season by beating Jimmy Walker in a play-off at the Hyundai Tournament of Champions in Hawaii.
Added the 2016 Barclays title and was second to Francesco Molinari on the 2018 European Tour money list after a joint runner-up finish at the season-ending DP World Tour Championship.