{"id":37608,"date":"2025-07-04T08:36:09","date_gmt":"2025-07-04T08:36:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/37608\/"},"modified":"2025-07-04T08:36:09","modified_gmt":"2025-07-04T08:36:09","slug":"max-homa-explains-what-he-finds-really-odd-about-augusta-national-after-being-horrendous-at-the-masters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/37608\/","title":{"rendered":"Max Homa explains what he finds really ‘odd’ about Augusta National after being ‘horrendous’ at The Masters"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Max Homa has experienced a woeful 2025 season on the PGA Tour so far, but his T-12 finish at The Masters was a rare positive.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Homa<\/a> turned up at Augusta National<\/a> woefully out of form, but he managed to end the week at four-under par to secure himself a top-15 finish at The Masters<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Over the past year or so, the 34-year-old from Burbank, California, has regressed badly, and he now seems to be a shadow of his former self.<\/p>\n

On Wednesday ahead of the John Deere Classic, Homa praised Justin Thomas and Collin Morikawa<\/a> for really helping him through his struggles.<\/p>\n

And despite all of his problems this year, Homa has still made himself available for his fans<\/a> after rounds, and is often pictured signing autographs.<\/p>\n

The American is still very much a class act.<\/p>\n

Max Homa makes claim about Augusta National after his T-12 at The Masters<\/p>\n

Homa\u2019s finish at Augusta back in April was a real surprise to everyone who has been following him over the past 12 months.<\/p>\n

\"MaxPhoto by David Berding\/Getty Images<\/p>\n

He entered The Masters tournament low on confidence, but left Augusta National with renewed hope and vigour.<\/p>\n

However, his solid performance proved to be nothing more than a false dawn.<\/p>\n

And now Homa has made a startling admission about how he played at Augusta three months ago.<\/p>\n

Speaking to reporters ahead of the John Deere Classic, the six-time PGA Tour winner responded when asked whether he took great belief from his finish at The Masters.<\/p>\n

he said: \u201cYeah, it\u2019s tricky. Augusta I played horrendous but that golf course in some odd way, if you know it really well, which I feel like I kind of got last year when I played well, I was very disciplined in the leaves and using the rest of my golf game to keep myself in it.<\/p>\n

\u201cHit it very poorly that week off the tee. Thought my way around the place really well.<\/p>\n

\u201cQuail Hollow, having one great day was awesome, but I drove it well. I don\u2019t know what I take from that exactly. What I will say is I tend to come to places like this where the scores are really low and you almost get lazy in your course management.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think the one shining light of like the way my game is coming to a place like this is hopefully I\u2019ll put a little bit more thought into leaves and you don\u2019t need to be on every green in regulation, avoid bogeys, sprinkle in birdies, and just kind of watch that go.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think sometimes we play \u2014 like last week for me I played knowing the scores were low, and any time you miss a par-5 fairway, you\u2019re bummed out.<\/p>\n

\u201cSo I need to do a better job of that. That\u2019s what I would take from Augusta. As poorly and I played and decently as I scored, it\u2019s a unique golf course, much different than this. There is something to be learned from that.\u201c<\/p>\n

The incredible thing Max Homa told his coach in June<\/p>\n

After day one at the Memorial Tournament, Homa lifted the lid on a conversation he shared with his coach before the tournament began.<\/p>\n

He said: \u201cI\u2019ve been trying not to worry so much about justifying it, but it does feel nice to \u2014 you know, I told my coach last night, this is the best my swing has felt in a really long time. Then the whole game kind of felt like that. So I just pointed it out, and I guess I didn\u2019t need it to, I didn\u2019t need to shoot a low number to validate that, but I just, it just feels nice. Because it really does \u2014 I was texting him, We weren\u2019t BS\u2019ing about it, it just felt good, looked good, felt like I could hit the shots I wanted to hit. So, yeah, I guess it\u2019s not a justification, I guess, but you still want to get something out of it when it feels that good. Because this game, I mean, there\u2019s so few chances for most of us to play a stellar round of golf, so you would like it when it feels good to go out there and actually post a number.\u201c<\/p>\n

That was quite the claim from Homa and as things stand, it seems like there was no substance to what he was actually feeling.<\/p>\n

Let\u2019s hope for his sake that he has a strong week at TPC Deere Run this week and builds some confidence ahead of some hugely important tournaments.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Max Homa has experienced a woeful 2025 season on the PGA Tour so far, but his T-12 finish…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":37609,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[30494,1430,1442,13060,62,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-37608","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-golf","8":"tag-augusta-national","9":"tag-golf","10":"tag-masters","11":"tag-max-homa","12":"tag-sports","13":"tag-united-states","14":"tag-unitedstates","15":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114794055809393882","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37608","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37608"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37608\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37609"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37608"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37608"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37608"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}