Blaine, minn. – Max Homa should win this week. Of course, all Do you do, but Homa really does. Let him explain.
“My pregnant wife and I have to go home,” Homa said on Thursday, as a 66 first round had tied up for 18 and six out of rhythm in TPC twin cities, where Adam Svenson Got the early lead with a record 60 course. “We’ve been left for two weeks. It is a little stressful, but I think the only way you can go out and win a golf tour is not trying to get a golf tour exactly. So it’s a strange space.”
However, the reason why Homa can’t go home because he has to make FedEx Cup Play off. With two weeks left in the regular season, he is 102 in the ranking of FedEx Cup. While he does not have to worry about holding his PGA Tour card (he is excluded during 2028), he has only the Wynham championship next week to squeeze the top 70 places and make the championship FedEx St. Jude and the first game of the play -offit.
But a victory could make life so much easier – the stream with no winned victory, the place of the play -off secured and reserved in the flight home; No Wyndham stop in North Carolina is required.
And now, he is playing Wyndham (he said his wife told him) and is flying home shortly afterwards. He is ready to make a trip faster if needed. Last week at Barracuda championship He had two lost calls from his wife, who is due to the first week of August, and said he was scared.
“I can’t treat stress right now,” he said then.
On Thursday, he said, “Everyday I finish a golf day I look at my phone and see if I’m flying home, so we’ll see. It is a good problem to have.”
After a two -win and T9 wins at the tour championship, Homa was without winning last season, but made 18 out of 22 cuts and had eight first, reaching the BMW championship but not staring at East Lake in three years. This season, it has been a slightly bumpier trip. He has made 10 of 18 cuts with only one Top 10, and he lost both open and open championships. It was the first time he had lost two degrees in one season in six years.
He lost five straight cuts from February to April, but a T12 in Masters took it back on the right track. He has lost only two cuts in the nine events since and early this month linked to the fifth in John Deere Classic, his best end of the season.
On Thursday, Homa did not make a trick and did not lose a green (the first time in his career he went 18 for 18 in the greens in the regulation). He ended up in nine front and bird two of the last three, bending his knees as the ball besieged the cup to add its last bird from 11 feet to the last.
“I played awesome, maybe the worst I might have shot,” Homa said. “Hit him so well. He rolled well. I just couldn’t make a lot of strokes. It was nice to lip a last one. Just a good round of golf.”
Now, he will have to continue it. The field goes low in TPC twin cities, even when no lies are preferred as it was on Thursday.
“I know what to do, I have to play incredible,” he said. “Fortunately, my game has felt wonderful last month or more, so yes, I just got, I don’t know, I don’t know how you just make yourself win. I’m just trying to keep doing what I’m doing and see what happens Sunday.”
