Maks Homa eats his words with the club shooting incident in Heritage

Golf is a constant head game. It can make professionals and amateurs do and say the craziest things. It can also inspire golfers I DO things that directly contradict the things that they SAY. And golf made Max Homa do just that 2026 RBC Legacy.

On Wednesday, he declared that “breaking down clubs makes us look very, very spoiled”, in a veiled criticism of Sergio Garcia’s Masters breakout. On Sunday, a frustrated Homa found himself tomahawked by throwing a stick at a palm tree in Harbor Town.

Homa’s cryptic criticism of Sergio Garcia’s Masters club shot

Let’s start with Homa’s comments on Wednesday. They came during his pre-tournament press conference at the RBC Heritage, where a reporter asked him about Garcia’s actions at last week’s Masters.

Sunday at Augusta was Garcia, the 2017 Masters champion was caught slamming his driver into a tee boxthen slicing it in two against a nearby cooler. Sergio was reportedly reprimanded by Masters officials and later apologized.

In his Wednesday bout with reporters, Homa was asked about the Sergio Masters incident and what kind of misconduct he thinks should be banned by a future Code of Conduct policy.

“I don’t like it when people break clubs. I don’t like it when people beat the golf course because we deal with it, and I think breaking clubs makes us look very, very spoiled,” Homa said.

Homa balanced his criticism by admitting that golf is “a very frustrating game” and saying that “it happens.”

But he also threw his support behind improving Tour Pro behavior on the course with a Code of Conduct Policy.

“We want to inspire the next generation to be better than us, so we have to hold ourselves to a higher standard,” Homa said.

Then came Sunday.

Homa tries to catch Sergio with the tomahawk club slam at the RBC Heritage

At another point in Homa’s press conference, he admitted that he is not immune to the occasional clash of clubs during a tournament and when he fails to live up to his own standards of behaviour, he gets “very upset” with himself.

“I try my best not to do that, and when it happens, as far as crashing a box, I’m really upset with myself because we’re very fortunate to play this game where we play it, and I think it’s a bad look,” Homa said.

Based on these comments, we can pretty much understand how Homa feels this Monday morning.

After a disappointing 74 in Round 3 that saw her lose momentum, Homa was struggling in Sunday’s final round, going three under through the first 10 holes. But after bogeying the par-3 14th hole, Homa’s chances for a strong finish faded and his frustration grew.

When he then missed his tee shot on the par-5 15th into a grove of palm trees amid a sandy locale, six-time tournament winner was about to leave.

Faced with a tricky shot between the trees with the ball sitting in soft sand, Homa caught it thick. Before his ball settled back into its native area, just meters away from its original spot, Homa took his iron in both hands, flipped it over and then hurled it in front of him, where it caught a palm tree before crashing into the sand.