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After 'legit' quitting golf, Mel Reid (T-2) has rediscovered hunger for game

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SPRINGFIELD N.J. — Mel Reid "legit" quit golf less than a year ago.

"In September, I literally told (Reid's wife) Carly, 'I'm going into media, like I'm going to be one of you guys, I'm not playing golf anymore,'" Reid revealed Friday at Baltusrol.

Full-field scores from the KPMG Women’s PGA Championship

But just nine months later, the 35-year-old Englishwoman is T-2, one stroke off the 36-hole KPMG Women's PGA Championship lead.

It's been quite a ride back to this point for the world No. 214.

The 2020 ShopRite LPGA Classic winner and six-time champion on the Ladies European Tour had fallen on hard times a few years ago.