There are few players I like to look at more than Max Homa.
One of the reasons is that Swing Golf Homa is a first class ticket to Tempo Town. It feels like he swings a driver with control of a flying wedge. It is such a professional action on the ball.
The second (and most important) reason is that Homa is a seemingly gorgeous guy with an interesting story.
He was a high amateur in a historically good team of Cal Golden Bears College, but continued to fight strongly with professional golf, falling into the depths of the Korn Ferry Underbelly tournament. Then he somehow came out of that dark with some unpaid Golf for a few years past, setting strongly as one of the best players in the game.
Homa won once in 2019, twice in 2021, twice in 2022 and again in 2023. You do not run in six tourist wins in the accident. This is the whole career of Rickie Fowler.
By January 2024, Homa listed No.8 in the data golf ranking. A few months ago, Homa had done the 2023 Ryder Cup team and went 3-1 to 1 to Rome, making it the highest US performer.
In April 2024, Homa finished third in masters. This answered the question of whether Homa could really compete in a major.
But following that glittering game, Homa slowly faded.
His ranking fell with every week passing. At the time I watched this week, I was amazed.
The 34-year-old Homa is now no. 149 in Golf Data and No. 117 in the official ranking of world golf. This is after Branden Grace, someone who moved to Liv. This is behind his smiling friend Joel Dahmen, who has A Top-10 ends since the beginning of 2024 (It was a T10 in Canadian Open).
His game has been so strong that Homa did not qualify even in the open and open championship in the US. Since May 2024, Homa has a Top-10 conclusion. He came to John Deere Classic, a lower -level event without stars.
You, recreational golf player, you know how brutal Golf can be. This is a difficult game, man. So unclear.
Sometimes excellent players wake up one day and no longer have it. It happens. And Homa would know that getting out of the golf abyss is one of the most difficult tasks any athlete can end.
It just saddens me to see Homa fighting at this level. He was one very well Tournament player, on the border with the elite of the game. And I like to hear him talk about the game (or almost nothing). He’s high in the “golf order you want to get a beer with”.
To see it in this state is difficult.
I think only about 15 months of bad golf have passed (about its standards), so Homa can return this soon.
And I have that there is much more in life than golf. He is a human being. Homa and his wife just had their second child a few weeks ago. When there are many things that happen in the personal life of a golf, sometimes keeping a certain level of golf is difficult.
When you have this little boy who is rooting for you, birds and bogeys do not matter much.
You may have noticed that Homa, once considered “Mr. Golf Twitter” based on his fruitful social media activity, has not twisted since February 3 last month, he called Twitter a “terrible, terrible place” that is a “safe haven for assholes”.
He has tried to get out of attention in general, but this is a difficult challenge given his profile.
“I thought about bypassing a host of events in early summer, but I just don’t think I have it in me. I’m waiting for every time I was done this year and just try to get away from it,” Homa said. “Someone asked me the next day the difference between this and when I played poorly in 2017. One is golf is much closer than it was then. Lack of anonymity is a little difficult. Wherever I go someone is talking to me about golf.”
And here we’re talking about it. I’m sorry, max.
Saying that, Homa is a professional golf player. Part of this is open to criticism of performance. And he has been very open to his wars.
So what exactly happened here? Is it just life changes or something else?
Is the guilt of movement in Cobra?
At the beginning of this year, Homa announced that the way with the title in favor of an agreement with Cobra was being shared (He also signed an agreement with Lululemon for clothing).
Homa was one of the biggest assets of the title, so this was a great deal for Cobra. The brand lacked star players since Bryson Dechambeau left in 2022.
And this was reported to be a beautiful salary for Homa. The big gears moves are rare these days, but it made sense for Cobra to find a leading player.
In addition to his prototype Scotty Cameron T5.5, the whole Homa bag is Cobra.
- Driver: LS Driver Adapted COBRA DS-Adapt (9.4 °) with a Fujukura Velocore Velocore+ Blue 7 x
- 3-DRU: COBRA DS-Adapt LS (14.5 °) with a Blue Fujukura Velocore Velocore+ 8 x
- 4-Iron: Cobra limit3d with a c-taper 130 x ht black shaft
- 5-Iron: Cobra King CB with a Kbs C-Taper 130 X HT Black Axis
- 6-PW: Cobra King Mb Irons (6-PW) with Kbs C-Taper 130 x HT Black Bound
- Wedge: Wedges Cobra Snakebite (50 °, 56 °) with Kbs Hi-Rev 2.0 135 X Axles and a King Cobra 60 ° 7t with Hi-Rev 2.0 12 School
It should be noted that Homa was not playing well Before the switch. He was fighting in the summer of 2024 while playing title clubs.
However, it fell further after the cessation. Look at the Homa strikes won the ranking in 2025 compared to 2024. In addition to its running, the Homa game deteriorated.
| 2024 | 2025 | |
| SG off-the-thee | 164 | 100 |
| Sg tee-to-green | 111 | 152 |
| Access SG | 86 | 155 |
| Sg around the greens | 39 | 139 |
| SPRING SG | 106 | 105 |
For reference, the 2023 Homa season included the 15th in Tee-to-Green, 41st off-the-thee, 26th in access, 33th about green and 6th in placement.
Then see what happened. Some areas deteriorated significantly, so it is difficult to put guilt for each element.
Mass points in the game of access and clash are disturbing.
Homa’s placement also went from the best game to the average tournament. He is still using the same holder, so the equipment is not so factor there.
Is this just a case for someone to lose their game? Or is the gear a big factor? Both?
Players are expected to have a period of adjustment after such majority changes. Entirely is fully possible for Homa to get used to his clubs over time.
But for the following reasons, I think Homa’s problems are deeper than a change of equipment.
Changes of swing and cadad play a role
It is difficult to put all the blame on its transition to Cobra because Homa has admitted that it is in the trenches with a shaky adjustment that preaches the gear movement.
In October 2024, Homa split with his coach Mark Blackburn and began working with John Scott. Homa said he was “throwing mud on the wall” and nothing would climb, so it promoted the change.
He has since tried to turn into a prior feeling of swinging. This division shows that Homa has made progress technically, but there is no confidence yet.
Back in February to Phoenix Open, Homa said he was swinging the best he ever has in his career. He lost the cut with five shots that week, but he liked how he felt.
It’s been a year -round battle to capture his feeling. Homa is ultra-transparent with the moribundous state of his game.
“You probably have a kind of panic meter trying to get better,” Homa told the emergency to recover his shape. “I think the balance is trying to recognize progress even if it is not as fast as you would like to be. So the type of trying to see small victories here and there, whether it’s a good week driving, good day of driving, good round, something like that, and seeing it as progress, instead of being an anal as you can get 10.
“It’s a harsh balance. I don’t think someone here is fighting and thinking” is a vague game, I’ll have it soon. “It seems to go much faster than it turns.”
Homa also split with his long cadet, Joe Greiner, again in April (Greiner then went to Caddy for Colli Morikawa, though that relationship ended after only five events).
Homa and Greiner had been professionally together for over a decade.
“It wasn’t my choice, so it sucked,” Homa told the masters. “But we’ve always had a deal that we were friends first and friendship mattered more than the work thing.”
After employment of veteran Caddy Bill Arcke as a replacement, they two split after only a few months. This led to the employment of the Homa Lance Bennett, a former -looper for Tiger Woods.
When Homa stands towards having a long -term cadet is still unsafe.
After all, it is difficult to give a reason for Homa battles.
Everyone will want to show Switch Cobra, but it is clear that Homa has been wandering for longer than that.
No matter what, I’m very rooting for him to return.
Screw haters, including me (not a haters, but I will happily serve as a motive for him if it works).
Do you think Homa will recover his shape? What is the biggest reason for its fall?
Tell me below in comments.
The main photo title: Max Homa has been fighting the past two seasons. (Getty Images/Jared C. Tilton)
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