{"id":102553,"date":"2025-05-15T04:10:14","date_gmt":"2025-05-15T04:10:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/102553\/"},"modified":"2025-05-15T04:10:14","modified_gmt":"2025-05-15T04:10:14","slug":"max-homa-and-wyndham-clark-reveal-why-theyll-be-desperately-avoiding-their-phones-at-the-pga-championship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/102553\/","title":{"rendered":"Max Homa and Wyndham Clark reveal why they&#8217;ll be desperately avoiding their phones at the PGA Championship"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"author-section byline-plain\">By <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/profile-213\/max-winters.html\" class=\"author\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">MAX WINTERS<\/a> <\/p>\n<p class=\"byline-section\"> Published:  19:24 EDT, 14 May 2025   |  Updated:  19:32 EDT, 14 May 2025   <\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Max Homa and Wyndham Clark have revealed the perils of looking at their phones too much during this week at the <a style=\"font-weight: bold;\" target=\"_self\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/sport\/pga_championship\/index.html\" id=\"mol-8f9ca6c0-30fe-11f0-a58c-3b5f65c01736\" rel=\"noopener\">PGA Championship<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">The American <a style=\"font-weight: bold;\" target=\"_self\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/sport\/ryder_cup\/index.html\" id=\"mol-8f9ca6c1-30fe-11f0-a58c-3b5f65c01736\" rel=\"noopener\">Ryder Cup<\/a>\u00a0heroes took part in a fan Q+A at T-Mobile&#8217;s VIP &#8216;Club Magenta&#8217;, which overlooks the 10th green at Quail Hollow this week.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Both men are desperate for victories this week &#8211; Homa is trying to turn around his form and Clark is chasing the second major championship of his career &#8211; and they both vowed that they&#8217;ll be limiting their screen time while in the heat of battle.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">When asked about his relationship with his phone at a major, Clark told Barstool Sports personality Riggs: &#8216;Definitely more on the tuning out part.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">&#8216;What people don&#8217;t think about is you have a lot of friends that might be in the area saying &#8220;Hey, can I get tickets? Want to do dinner?&#8221; and distracting you.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">&#8216;On social media there are people talking good and bad about you. I want to get off of that.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>  <img decoding=\"async\" id=\"i-a9310146aa3363e5\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/98386583-14712901-image-m-9_1747255057936.jpg\" height=\"547\" width=\"306\" alt=\"Homa revealed he only calls his coach, caddy or wife\u00a0Lacey after a round\" class=\"blkBorder img-share\" style=\"max-width:100%\" loading=\"lazy\" \/>    <img decoding=\"async\" id=\"i-d216761d9ccfbd45\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/98386575-14712901-image-a-10_1747255066847.jpg\" height=\"547\" width=\"306\" alt=\"Clark said he'll be ignoring requests for tickets and dinner dates\" class=\"blkBorder img-share\" style=\"max-width:100%\" loading=\"lazy\" \/>  <\/p>\n<p class=\"imageCaption\">Max Homa and Wyndham Clark have insisted they&#8217;ll be avoiding their phones this week<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">&#8216;So I kind of try to stay off the radar a little bit. I mainly look at kind of my team and the people that are closest to me to make sure that, obviously, it&#8217;s communicating, right?\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">&#8216;But outside of that I get back and we&#8217;ll play games, we&#8217;ll watch TV, read books and try to get away from that.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Homa added: &#8216;Yeah, very similar. We were just talking and mostly if I&#8217;m on my phone, I&#8217;m typically texting my coach or caddy, my wife or playing some kind of New York Times crossword.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">&#8216;That&#8217;s my relationship with my phone in a major week. As Wyndham said, you get a lot of people texting you, random people telling you good luck who you haven&#8217;t talked to in so long.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">&#8216;So yeah, just trying to almost zone out when you&#8217;re off the golf course and then when you&#8217;re here, tuck the phone away a little.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Clark, who announced he currently has 1,100 unread messages in his phone, also revealed the most famous contact in his phone is Hollywood star Mark Wahlberg.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">He&#8217;ll be hoping more people flood his inbox with congratulatory messages on Sunday night if he can win this week.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Clark, the 2023 US Open champion, has missed the cut at three of the last five majors and hasn&#8217;t won any event since the 2024 AT&amp;T Pebble Beach Pro-Am.<\/p>\n<p>   <img decoding=\"async\" id=\"i-ab01c2f9e96a1788\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/98386647-14712901-image-a-11_1747255169721.jpg\" height=\"423\" width=\"634\" alt=\"Homa is yet to win one of golf's biggest prizes despite being a six-time PGA Tour champion\" class=\"blkBorder img-share\" style=\"max-width:100%\" loading=\"lazy\" \/>   <\/p>\n<p class=\"imageCaption\">Homa is yet to win one of golf&#8217;s biggest prizes despite being a six-time PGA Tour champion<\/p>\n<p>   <img decoding=\"async\" id=\"i-f4769077b98c0754\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/98386651-14712901-Clark-m-13_1747255191543.jpg\" height=\"431\" width=\"634\" alt=\"Clark, seen talking with Scottie Scheffler, is hoping to add a second major title to his list\" class=\"blkBorder img-share\" style=\"max-width:100%\" loading=\"lazy\" \/>   <\/p>\n<p class=\"imageCaption\">Clark, seen talking with Scottie Scheffler, is hoping to add a second major title to his list<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">As for Homa, he is yet to win one of golf&#8217;s biggest prizes despite being a six-time champion on the PGA Tour.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">He recently parted ways with his longtime caddy\u00a0Joe Greiner after a run of poor form but comes into the PGA Championship on the back of a T30 finish at the Truist Championship.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Clark begins his week at 1:36pm ET on Thursday alongside Hideki Matsuyama and Tom Kim.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Homa, meanwhile, is playing with fellow American Lucas Glover and LIV Golf star Joaquin Niemann.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>                    Share or comment on this article:<br \/>\n                        Max Homa and Wyndham Clark reveal why they&#8217;ll be desperately avoiding their phones at the PGA Championship<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By MAX WINTERS Published: 19:24 EDT, 14 May 2025 | Updated: 19:32 EDT, 14 May 2025 Max Homa&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":102554,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4106],"tags":[92,2826,2632,4321,93,79,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-102553","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-golf","8":"tag-dailymail","9":"tag-golf","10":"tag-north-carolina","11":"tag-ryder-cup","12":"tag-sport","13":"tag-sports","14":"tag-uk","15":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114509894392563393","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102553","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=102553"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102553\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/102554"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=102553"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=102553"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=102553"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}