However, that same month he claimed his first Poverty Bay Open honours after the 2021 edition was postponed from September also because of Covid-19.
It made him the first golfer to hold all three titles at the same time.
However, holding is one thing; retaining another.
And perhaps no one has more incentive to dethrone Reedy this weekend than the man he beat in two of the three chapters of his Triple Crown journey — William Brown.
Brown, the KotC winner in 2020, heads a quality crew of locals vying to get their names on the trophy again or for the first time.
The likes of Andrew Higham, Hukanui Brown and Tony Akroyd have tasted KotC success while Dwayne Russell and Thomas Donovan are hungry to join them.
Add to that list Pete Stewart, Eddie Brown Jnr, Regan Hindmarsh and Jace Brown, the home-course contingent led by Neil Hansen and multiple KotC winner Dion Milner, and Kawerau's Tuakana August.
Any of these players, on their day, could prevail.
Important to that will once again be the short game.
Most of these players, if not all of them, hit it out there.
Distance is not an issue, even on a heavy Tolaga Bay track.
What it comes down to — and every KotC champion will vouch for this — is the area about 80 metres and in.
Whoever masters that, whoever has a putter that's part wand/part weapon, and who receives a little compassion from sometimes ruthless golfing gods, has a great chance of delivering a victory speech early Sunday evening.
Sixty-four players in four groups of 16 are competing over the two days.
And one thing is guaranteed —the finest East Coast hospitality.
