Patrick Reed and Tiger Woods: U.S. Ryder Cup dream team?

Tiger Woods would make a “fun” Ryder Cup partner at Gleneagles in September, says golf’s gift to the world, Patrick Reed.

The cocksure WGC-Cadillac Championship winner wasted no time, following his one-shot victory at Trump National Doral on Sunday in giving the European Ryder Cup team some juicy bulletin board material by boasting that he and his “twin star” would make an unbeatable foursome duo against the likes of Rory McIlroy, Graeme McDowell, and Ian Poulter at Gleneagles in September.

“I’d love to play alternate shot with Tiger Woods. Why? Best golfer who ever lived,” Reed, who flaunts Tiger’s signature Sunday hues, told Brian Keogh at Trump National Doral after overtaking Woods’ mark as the youngest player to win a WGC event.

“We wear black and red. Okay, red, white and blue. But it would definitely be a red shirt that day,” added Reed, whose wife calls the world No. 1 her husband’s “twin star.”

Reed, whose three wins in his last 14 starts puts him fourth in Ryder Cup points, ticked off some observers and tickled others with his post-win comments about being among the top 5 in the world of golf. With a bad back clouding his future and some of the worst rounds in his storied career in just three tour events in 2014, Tiger, who will enter Bay Hill at 40th among potential Ryder Cup candidates, would currently have to rely on a captain’s pick to join the fray beside Reed. And that may not be a done deal, given the bad blood between the prickly Tom Watson and Woods.

No bother for Reed, who certainly did not shrink from his post-win grandstanding, in which he compared his awesome talent with that of his hero and other “legends of the game.” The fourth-year tour pro, in his chat with Keogh, again placed himself in the company of the 14-time world champion.

“I feel that with the shot-making he has and the shot-making I have and with our short games, that would be a team that would be extremely hard to beat,” Reed said. “I am reckless like he is. I like to go for everything. But at the same time, that’s how we win events, that’s also how we lose events. It’s one of those things that we don’t play scared. That would be pretty fun.”

Reed’s dream matchup? He and Tiger taking on any combination of McIlroy, Poulter and GMac.

“[McDowell’s] a great golfer and I’d love to play him and Rory. That would be fun,” said Reed. “Rory and him against myself and Tiger. Or Rory and Ian Poulter.”

It should come as no surprise that the brash 23-year-old Texan has an affinity for Poulter, who, while crashing down the leader board to a T52 finish (12-over) at Doral, made some news last week on Twitter, calling a fellow Doral competitor an “idiot” and likening a golf writer to a male appendage.

“He speaks his mind. He doesn’t sugarcoat anything and I respect that of people. I wouldn’t expect him to sugarcoat anything,” Reed said. “He just has the guts to tell everybody how he feels. I feel like I am that way. I won’t sugarcoat anything either and I feel like that’s also what makes you a great player and a well-respected player.”

Reed certainly has given the U.S. Ryder Cup skipper something to mull. With Watson one of the stodgiest in the stodgiest of all sports (just ask Gary McCord), however, the uber-confident 20th-ranked golfer in the world may have to tone things down to win favors from his captain.