Max Homa

Charlotte, North Carolina – The “problem” in the title is looking around in the gallery of Quail Hollow. The same person suddenly appeared on social media. Maybe even the head of a hovering Max Homa.

Is he back?

Friday’s 64 rounds of the PGA Championship were ideal for smoke issues. Despite the five cuts piled up this year, Homa felt “close” for some time. He is look Closed in person. During the practice race that opened in WM Phoenix in February, he said he had never driven a better ride. But when the gun entered the first round, he shot five shots.

“It’s just a tough game,” Homa said after making it look particularly easy on Friday.

He drove to one foot on a 4-14-shot, and he ran for the Birds at 18, with his putt 100 feet and defeated him with the last nine points on Thursday Nine. Sixty-four is the best statistics in his professional career three And his best results since August 2023.

“It’s a guy who’s been struggling, always struggling, needing,” Bill Harke said in less than two months of age. “You need a round to tell you ‘you’re back’. You can’t get your agent, your caddie, your wife and everyone tell you ‘you’re back’. You have to Know it. ”

We will see how well he knows about him in the next two days. Under five, Homa won the focus of the afternoon weekend kickoff time, second only to the lead. I spent two days in Charlotte doing more work at home.

Homa said he had hit “the ridiculousness of golf” over the past seven months, feeling “so broken” and looking for a swing from the peak when he was one of the 10 best players on the planet. The feeling has been completely trapped in his memory over the past year, and it wasn’t until about three weeks ago that he decided to really get to know this with his swing coach, John Scott Rattan. “I said, ‘I think I should swing like this.’” Homa recalled. “He said, OK, let me know. I showed it to him. He said OK, let’s shape it, let’s make models.transparent

The model looks really good. Homa hits it with a low and eye-catching, soft fading starts from the left and then gently moves to the center. They easily follow large white quail hollow oaks. However, the model is still so new. Homa brought rattan during the offseason, while also changing the equipment company. (In hindsight, he said he wouldn’t recommend a new coach, a new combo.) His long-time caddie and friend Joe Greiner then chose to keep going in March and then move on before the tiredness of this trip – from the 5th to the top 70 outside of the 12-month period, impacting their relationship. Homa called on legendary caddy Jim to “Bone” Mackay to make a suggestion that the looper looper, and Harke was the first to think of it.

Huck is a golf nut and he knows the difference between Mackenzie and Renault. He has served as a Bay Area swing lecturer between the small ball worlds of the tour. On Friday, he soon received zero worthy honors for Homa’s success, but Homa disagreed. “It’s amazing Bill is in the psychology of golf, talking to me and keeping a positive attitude when I start to get dark,” he said.

Their first round was Valero’s 76 points, but their second match ended at T12 in the Masters, ensuring Homa will be invited until next year. (T13 won’t do it, he knows it very well.)

Homa then finished 72nd in the RBC legacy, failing to break par over the weekend after Truist started last week with a 66-68 mark. This is the main struggle of this game. Grab your way out from the valley won’t be linear, and even Truism will be hard to explain for one of the most eloquent speakers on the tour. But Homa sent a very simple teasing to the press on Friday afternoon. The impressive master show was “Smoke and Mirror,” he said, but the T30 ending in Philadelphia last week was the first time he started to feel like “Old Me”. For the first time in a long time, his game felt sustainable. Solid enough to pack it in a travel case and take it to Charlotte without worrying about it.

“When all these guys are, when you get into ruts, you have to go through that part first, right?” Hack said, proving that Homa’s understanding of that psychology is correct.

“You have to start admitting that you know you’re getting better and then you can take the next step to get better. Everyone tells them he’s been months now. He has to tell himself, right? Today’s rounds like today are a round he’ll keep in mind. Hopefully he realizes he’s back.”

We will find more on Saturday.