After departing LIV Golf last month and with his return to the PGA Tour not set until this summer, all Patrick Reed has done in the interim is win tournaments.

Reed won the Qatar Masters on Sunday in Doha at 16-under-par 272, following his 2-under 70 in the final round of the DP World Tour event. It is the American’s second tournament victory in three weeks after he won the Hero Dubai Desert Classic in January.

It nearly was three trophies in three weeks, but Reed lost in a playoff during last week’s Bahrain Championship.

“This little run I’ve had, two wins and a second, it’s awesome,” Reed said. “We couldn’t ask anything more than what we did. It’s special, to come out here especially to get two wins early on in the season, and hopefully there’s a lot more to come.”

Calum Hill of Scotland finished in second place at 14 under after shooting a 5-under 67 in the final round, while Denmark’s Jacob Skov Olesen (71) and American Johannes Veerman (68) tied for third at 13 under.

“Golf feels good at the minute (and) it was nice to have a really good week last week,” Hill said. “… Today it was a different story, it was a big chase. You’re trying to get as much on the field as you can and then hopefully Patrick didn’t go too far away.”

Reed was 1-over par over his first nine holes Sunday but was able to hold off the hard-charging Hill with birdies on three of the first four holes on the back nine. He came home with four consecutive pars to win on the European Tour for the fifth time in his career.

Since leaving the PGA Tour in 2022, Reed won one LIV Golf tournament in June of last year at Dallas. The 2018 Masters winner has won nine times on the PGA Tour, with the last in 2021 at the Farmers Insurance Open just outside of San Diego.

Reed’s latest victory was in doubt early after he carried a two-shot lead into the final round. That was erased when Olesen had a birdie on the first hole and Reed posted a bogey on his second hole to create a tie at the top of the leaderboard.

Oliver Lindell of Finland charged into the lead with six birdies and two bogeys over his first eight holes. Lindell, who finished tied for sixth at 12 under, fell by the wayside with a double bogey 6 at the 15th hole that took him to 3 over on the back nine at the time.

“It wasn’t looking very good there on the front nine,” Reed said. “To lose the lead like that and then to be able to kind of flip the switch there on the back nine obviously felt amazing.”

Veerman made a late run with five birdies over his final nine holes before Reed showed a steady hand to close out his round.

“I feel amazing,” Reed said. “This one hasn’t fully sunk in yet but today, with how stressful the day was, I was very proud because it very easily could have gotten away from me. The golf we’ve played since basically the offseason has been some stellar golf. I feel really confident in my golf game right now.”

–Field Level Media

CORTINA D’AMPEZZO, Italy — Olympic champions Amos Mosaner and Stefania Constantini of Italy edged closer to qualifying for the mixed doubles curling playoffs at the Milan Cortina Games on Sunday, while Britain had their winning run ended by Switzerland.

Reigning Olympic and world champions Italy delivered a strong performance against the Czech Republic to win 8-2 in just six ends, with Constantini clinching a three-pointer in the second end to put them on the path to victory early.

The Italian duo are second in the round-robin standings with five wins from their seven games, tied with Americans Korey Dropkin and Cory Thiesse, who defeated Marie Kaldvee and Harri Lill of Estonia 5-3.

Britain’s Jennifer Dodds and Bruce Mouat, who are the only team so far to have sealed their spot in the semifinals after winning their first seven games, slipped to a 7-6 defeat at the hands of Switzerland.

Switzerland had an early lead but fell behind heading into the final end, with Briar Schwaller-Huerlimann taking two points with the last throw to grab a win.

“I thought to myself ‘don’t let the momentum change.’ They were coming back and even were ahead a bit,” said Schwaller-Huerlimann’s partner, Yannick Schwaller.

“For future games, if we can have a bit more control, even in those moments, and not let them get close again, that would be really important.”

Sweden’s Isabella and Rasmus Wrana also improved their chances of finishing in the top four, beating fellow playoff contenders Brett Gallant and Jocelyn Peterman of Canada 7-6.

In Sunday’s morning session, the Czech Republic and South Korea claimed their second wins of the mixed doubles competition.

The Czechs beat two-time Olympic medalists Magnus Nedregotten and Kristin Skaslien of Norway 6-3, while South Korea clinched a 9-3 win over Estonia.

Teams play nine times in the round-robin stage at the Cortina Olympic Curling Centre, with the semifinals taking place on Monday and the medal matches scheduled for Tuesday.

–Reuters, special to Field Level Media

Super Bowl LXI in the Los Angeles area falls on Valentine’s Day next year, and 31 teams will again be going home with heartbreak.

With a little more than a year to go, sportsbooks are still feeling a lot of love for the NFC West.

The Seattle Seahawks are favored on consensus odds for Super Bowl LXI to again represent the NFC by a slim margin at +750 over the Los Angeles Rams (+800). The Buffalo Bills (+1000) have the best odds on the AFC side.

The Rams would be playing at their home field, SoFi Stadium in Inglewood, Calif., where they won Super Bowl LVI, if they can overcome the Seahawks and the rest of the NFC to get back to the big game. Seattle eliminated Los Angeles in the NFC title game 31-27.

Buffalo’s biggest competition comes from the reigning AFC champion New England Patriots, as well as the Baltimore Ravens (+1200). The Ravens made a coaching change after missing the playoffs in an attempt to catch lightning in a bottle as the Patriots did by hiring Mike Vrabel following consecutive 4-13 seasons.

The Green Bay Packers (+1300) are followed by the Los Angeles Chargers, Philadelphia Eagles, Detroit Lions and Kansas City Chiefs on the next rung at +1500. The Lions and Chiefs missed the playoffs but still have the core pieces and foundational players from recent runs of success. A big question for the Chiefs is Patrick Mahomes’ recovery from a torn ACL.

Four 2025 playoff teams — the San Francisco 49ers, Denver Broncos, Jacksonvulle Jaguars and Houston Texans — are all +2000 to win the Lombari Trophy in 2027.

On the other end of the spectrum, the New York Jets have the longest odds to win the Super Bowl at 250-1 or plus +25000.

They are below the Miami Dolphins (225-1), Arizona Cardinals (200-1), New Orleans Saints (175-1), Carolina Panthers (150-1) and Tennessee Titans (150-1).

The Las Vegas Raiders hold the No. 1 pick in the 2026 NFL Draft and are 125-1, even with the Cleveland Browns.

–Field Level Media