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USA Today
2 days ago
- Entertainment
- USA Today
This Max Homa interview on celebrities, his bachelor party, Chipotle and so much more will remind you why you love him
Let's face it, these are trying times for Max Homa. The six-time PGA Tour winner reached as high as No. 5 in the world, but has now slipped out of the Official World Golf Ranking top 100. After playing in 21 consecutive majors, he's now missing his second straight, as he failed to qualify for the Open at Royal Portrush. He has a new caddie after splitting with childhood friend Joe Greiner, and he recently opened up about the cesspool that social media can become, which is in contrast to the early portion of his career, where he made a name for himself by roasting the swings of others. And after a rough opening round at the 2025 Barracuda Championship, Homa stormed back Friday to make the cut at Tahoe Mountain Club's Old Greenwood course with eight birdies, including five in his last seven holes. Rico Hoey led the event after two days of play with plus 26 while Homa entered the weekend at plus 14. But despite his struggles, Homa has remained one of the game's most insightful players, a genuine interviewee who thoughtfully answers every question lobbed his way in the media center. And while we don't typically publish interviews in their entirety, this exchange between Homa and reporters in advance of the Barracuda, this one seemed too precious to carve up. Thanks to PGA Tour communications for the entire transcript: Q. You played your college golf at Berkeley, Cal Berkeley, not too far from here, couple hours away. Did you have any experiences coming up to Lake Tahoe when you were in college? Any memories coming up in this area in that time period? MAX HOMA: No, never in college. I did come here for my bachelor party. Q. Oh, nice. Heck yeah. MAX HOMA: So memories are hazy, but... Q. We need to follow up on that. MAX HOMA: We got pictures. But yeah, we never golfed here. I did do a work outing last offseason at Edgewood, which was cool. That was my first time getting to play-play up here. No, it's very pretty. I guess last time I played this event it was at Montreux, so bit different location, but similar kind of vibe. It's a very special place in the country that I don't feel like a lot of people get to go to, but when you got here you think to yourself, why don't I come here more often? It's very peaceful. It's a very enjoyable place. Very thankful we get to come up here. Q. The Bachelor party, winter trip, summer? When did you guys come out? MAX HOMA: September. It was like a Labor Day. Q. You get on the boat? MAX HOMA: It was very nice. We had a plan to get on the boat, but everybody woke up and thought better of it. Yeah, no. But, no, it was fun. We stayed mostly at the house. We went down to South Lake Tahoe every night. It was a blast. We had like 15 of us. It was a lot of fun. Q. Shoutout to Shannon Kelly's fiance John actually had his party during the ACC last week. MAX HOMA: That's wild. Q. Shannon's dad was there. I can tell you by Sunday they looked like they were pretty bad by Sunday. Speaking of Edgewood though, tough back-to-back weeks of assignments for us. We were posted up at the American Sentry Championship last week. I know you had your eyes on it because I believe Charles Barkley name dropped you. I think you reached out to him after he shot an 81 often Friday. What's that relationship like and did you -- do you pay attention to that celebrity tournament every year? More: Max Homa calls social media a 'safe haven for a**holes,' says logging off was the right move MAX HOMA: Yeah, I'm lucky. I got quite a few friends who played in it. Chuck I think is the greatest dude in the world. He texts me after most every tournament so I was trying to reciprocate. He's playing so much better, so that was fun to watch. Baker plays. I text him. Chuck and Rob McElhenney played together, and so I'm friends with both of them. I keep my eye the most on Aaron Rogers. We talk a lot. We talk a lot golf. He's a golf junkie. He didn't get to play much at all leading up, but he said I think the Monday before he went up he went and played and played really well, so it was good that he showed up and kind of kept what trend going. I think he went 15, 15, 14. It was fun to watch them, man. People like Steph and just the athletes that we admire going to play a game that drives you insane. Getting to watch the Kelce Brothers suck is always funny. I mean, they're just the most likable people ever and they get on the golf course and they continue to be relatable. I don't know. You just get to see both their personality and competitive nature at the same time. I think that's just awesome. Q. What did you say with Chuck, you had the video of him, there were some expletives... MAX HOMA: Oh, yeah. Q. ... and you were like, one of us, man. You got to be careful with a hot mic around Barkley. MAX HOMA: He doesn't care about a hot mic, I promise you that. Q. Who is the best celebrity golfer you've ever played a round with? MAX HOMA: I mean, Aaron is a really good. I've never played with Steph. He's impressive. On the spot I'm blanking. I know there is more. But somebody who is really good, Alfonso Ribeiro is a phenomenal golfer. Q. He takes it very seriously. MAX HOMA: Yeah, he loves him some golf. I'm sure I'm missing a bunch. Q. You're good. MAX HOMA: I'd be curious -- Austin Reaves has a special place in my heart as a Laker. I've heard himself tout himself as the best golfing basketball player, so I would like to see his game. His swing is beautiful, so... Corey Kispert is a good player. Q. Shout out Gonzaga. MAX HOMA: Yeah, so there are some good ones. I need to see it all up close. Steph obviously gets the most accolades because he won the ACC and all that. Oh, Mardy Fish. He's a really good golfer. Q. We saw Mardy; the final round he had a cocktail on the turn. That told me, all right... MAX HOMA: Because Mardy takes it serious-serious, so if he's drinking that means he's packed it in. Q. Back to serious golf though. In your last few months and of course, and it's well documented, different caddies and you were carrying your bag at a Monday qualifier. Take us inside your head right now and what you're going through. MAX HOMA: Yeah, feels good. Game feels a lot better the last -- since about the Truist I saw some better signs. Didn't really put up any good results, but the game started to feel a lot better. It's hard because I'm not at The Open. Didn't get to play the U.S. Open either. So it's hard to kind of compartmentalize improvement without being I guess upset I'm not there. But at the same time, if I just put it in a vacuum I'm really happy where my game is right now. I played great at the John Deere. I've been playing well at home. So I'm finally seeing some sustained good golf. Driving it a lot better. The rest of my game has felt pretty decent all year. Just been the driver and the 3-wood. So it's been awesome the last two and a half weeks. So, yeah, it's just good to kind of keep bouncing around. We travel so much. So bounce city to city and keep playing and keep having the same swing. For the beginning it was quite tough, so I see the light, which is good. Q. Dial it in. MAX HOMA: Yeah. Q. Got you. When you look at this tournament, you're hovering near 100 in the standings. Do you look at this as a opportunity, okay, this is somewhere maybe I can get big points or more just focused on I just want to go out and play good golf? What is your goal, expectation for coming out here to Truckee this week? MAX HOMA: Yeah, I mean, I'm in that spot. I don't need to finish in the top 100 this year because I have exemptions. I'm focused on the 70 and 50 number. I added this event because -- well, you know, I thought I would be playing this week anyway. I didn't play last week in Scotland. So I just wanted to get another rep in and get some points. Just try to keep chipping away towards that 70 number to make the playoffs. Hopefully -- I would love -- my wife is very, very pregnant right now so really like to win one of the next two so I could skip an event coming up just so I could keep the stress level low in our household. But, yeah, just wanted to -- playing well. I wanted to just get some points in and work my way towards Memphis. Q. Get a W and then maybe, all right, now we can... MAX HOMA: Yeah, I got two missed calls from her yesterday and I was freaking out. I can't handle the stress right now. Q. I can relate because my wife is also very pregnant. MAX HOMA: Okay. Q. When are you guys due? MAX HOMA: We would be like the first week of August. Q. So we're first week of October so you're really close. MAX HOMA: Oh, no, I'm close, yeah. She's the one telling me to keep playing, so I'm still stressed out. Dude, I'm freaking out. I'm ready to have the baby and then get settled. I know it'll be chaos, but I want to make sure I'm there. Q. Speaking of chaos, I just watched last night an eight-minute Truth Or Putt interview you did with Druski sponsored by Dunkin' Donuts. That looked like a ton of fun. And also, recently released episode of Stick on Apple. You were in that episode. What's it like getting to taste that Hollywood side of things? MAX HOMA: Yeah, it's not exactly my bread and butter, but Druski is cool. It's always scary to meet people like him because that's how I felt about the Pardon My Take guys, Big Cat and PFT. They're such a massive part my life without knowing it. It's kind of the definition of never meet your heros. I think when people meet athletes that they don't end up liking they get upset. I get that, but it's a different mindset. Those people are entertainers and you want them to be cool and normal and Druski... Q. (Talking over one another.) I hope they like me. MAX HOMA: That's what I mean. Hope they're funny, and Druski lived up to that. He was awesome to be around. Yeah, getting to be around Owen Wilson was cool. We were talking. I'm 34. If you're a 34-year-old dude he's your adolescence. Q. You're looking peak period of movies. MAX HOMA: Him and Vince Vaughan, man. We still quote everything they've done, so that was awesome. That was a pinch-me, texting all my friends, you'll never believe what I'm doing today. That was cool. Yeah, I haven't watched my scene. I will not watch my scene. I do not have the heart to watch myself act. Q. At least Wyndham was there with you. MAX HOMA: Yeah, thank you goodness. Hopefully he looked worse than me. That's all I can ask for. Q. How did you become that guy that is friends with all these big names, massive following. How did that all happen? Just naturally? MAX HOMA: I don't really know. I don't know. I've tried since college just to be myself and then you attract people that like that. If you don't, then it's all good. So fortunately I've always had such an admiration for other athletes, what they go through, what they put their bodies through, what mentally they go through. I've been lucky to get to have a lot of deep talks with these people, especially Aaron, about like how you prepares mentally, I mean. So, I don't know. I just have always been a big admirer of all theirs, so I've been really lucky we've got to have a relationship and chat about life, but also sports and how to get better. All athletes are sickos. We love what we do and we all love other sports, so it's cool to get to talk to those types of people. Q. We had or Nikki Pico (phonetic) walk up with you and she spotted our your bag big Chipotle presences on the golf bag got to ask you. They're a sponsor of yours. You said it's like your absolute favorite thing. First of all, what's the go-to Max Homa Chipotle order? What's the move? MAX HOMA: Yeah, they're my favorite thing like ever. I looked it up. There is not one anywhere near my hotel which is a bummer. My go-to, I get basically the same thing every time. I get a bowl, white rice, black beans, that Chipotle honey chicken is fire. I hope that never goes away. I've been begging them to keep it. Just keep it forever. Q. Don't lose it. MAX HOMA: Then pico corn, and if I had a good week I'll get guac. If not, I don't. Q. That's pretty simple. MAX HOMA: It's very simple. Q. Pretty simple order. Mike, what's on your Chipotle move. Depends if I'm going burrito, usually bowl though. I'm the guy that goes half and half with everything. MAX HOMA: Yeah, yeah, that is a good idea. Q. I feel like you get a little more that way. MAX HOMA: Okay, yeah, you're fleecing the system. Q. If I'm feeling good I'll go with the queso, but always guac on the side. MAX HOMA: Always, okay. Q. Got to get the guac. Even the veggies I think are a must. MAX HOMA: That's the only thing I'll mix in that's not part of my standard. I have it a lot at home so at some point I mix it up a little. That's pretty much the only thing... Q. Hey, we actually have one in Reno. Maybe we'll drive one up for you. MAX HOMA: Yeah, I checked. 23 miles from my hotel. I'm still thinking about going. I might drive out. I don't have my family here this week so I might hike it over to the Chipotle. Q. Curious, big Dodgers fan, right? MAX HOMA: Yeah. Q. Did you catch the All-Star Game last night? Kershaw mic'd up as he was pitching. MAX HOMA: Yeah. Q. Do you think LA runs it back this year? MAX HOMA: I hope they do. That was really cool. Kershaw is Dodgers' baseball to me. He's right in kind of my sweet spot, my favorite Dodger of all-time. So to get to see that -- he wasn't really honing it down. I think he hit 89 his first pitch. Had a strike out and have Dave (phonetic) come out, you know, that was just so cool. So it's nice when -- we been so lucky to get to see such great pitching in our era. To get to see them take their steps towards the end and get to appreciate it is cool. I hope they win it all. They're good. Pitching is going to get healthy soon. I think that's one the one bugaboo for the season. Bats have been cold, but I don't really worry about that lineup. I think they'll worry that one out. Q. I'm a long-suffering Mariners fan, so Cal Raleigh winning the Home Run Derby, I'm going to ride that. MAX HOMA: Cal Raleigh, baby. That's awesome. That was awesome.
Canada News.Net
3 days ago
- Sport
- Canada News.Net
Reflective Robert MacIntyre counting memories before defense of Scottish Open
(Photo credit: Sandra Mailer-Imagn Images) Robert MacIntyre returns to the Scottish Open exasperated by the year gone by since he birdied the final hole to win his home country's national championship in North Berwick last July. But even with the condensed PGA Tour schedule -- which MacIntyre detailed as prompting the belief he can never take a week off - the Oban, Scotland, native said he's energized planting his feet on home soil to defend his tournament title. 'As a kid growing up, I watched The Scottish Open at Loch Lomond and dreamed of playing in it,' he said Wednesday, 'and once I got playing in it, I'm thinking, let's win this thing. And obviously coming close. But last year, when that putt drops -- I keep watching it over and over again. I was struggling. My putting was up-and-down like a roller coaster. And when I struggle, I look at these moments, and I remember the highs when the putter does come, it really turns it on.' MacIntyre defeated Adam Scott by one stroke, making up three shots over the final five holes to extend momentum he brought to Scotland last July after winning the Canadian Open with his dad on the bag. There is a little less in the way of a positive current behind MacIntyre this week. Still, he's 14th in the Official World Golf Ranking the day before teeing it up at The Renaissance Club in arguably the headlining grouping of the first round with Scott and World No. 1 Scottie Scheffler (3:28 a.m. ET Thursday). 'It is surreal to know the path that I've gone on and the results that I've had,' said MacIntyre of the awe factor of coming home to take on the world's best in a spotlight tee time. 'As a kid growing up, you hit putts on putting greens to win this, win that, and I mean to actually be in the tournaments and have chances to really live the moments is all I can ask for. Whether you win it or not, it's like you've got the chance and they are special.' MacIntyre said he'll be aided by having the Scottish Open trophy on a shelf but made it clear he's planning to be aggressive, take risks and play to win again this week. 'I think the pressure is off, obviously, with me saying how much I wanted this golf tournament and we wanted to win this tournament,' MacIntyre said. 'I think the pressure is off on that side of it because I have won it now, but the expectation is not from me, (it's) from outside, the fans. No people within my team because they know it's a process and we do certain things. From the outside, the expectation is through the roof.' Beyond defending his title, motivation will not be hard to locate come Thursday. By car, MacIntyre's hometown of Oban is around a seven-hour drive to Royal Portrush Golf Club in Northern Ireland. This week, it's closer to three hours and under 150 miles to reach the site of the Scottish Open on Cowden Hill Drive in North Berwick. 'I want to keep this trophy every year until I stop playing. But again, I pitch up here, and I want to win,' he said. 'It's the Scottish Open, and it's my almost flagship event, I would say, after the majors. I want to win it. I hope if I don't win it, a Scottish player wins it. It's just a special, special golf tournament with an unbelievable field.' There's enough fuel and energy from the support of the home crowd this week and next for MacIntyre to keep it in high gear. Eventually, he's looking forward to taking a long break and perhaps more time for reflection. 'This season is log-jammed. If you looked at the locker room on the Sunday at the Travelers, everyone was dying to go home because it was just a long stretch. For me, I was out there 11 weeks, played 10 out of 11, was just running on empty,' MacIntyre said. 'It's such a big golf tournament; you're trying your best. It's difficult with how kind of condensed the season is now on the PGA Tour, especially. It's just log-jammed and you just feel like you can't take a week off because if you take a week off, you're going backward. It's difficult -- that side of it. But you've got to trust your schedule. You've got to trust that you're going to get your run. 'But it is very, very tiring.'
USA Today
4 days ago
- Sport
- USA Today
With eagles and hole-outs, Matt Fitzpatrick finding form again at 2025 British Open
(Editor's note: For live updates of the first round of the Open Championship, please click here.) 'I'd say a 10,' he said, giving the highest rating possible. 'Because I'm leading the championship at the moment and I did everything well.' It was that type of day for the Englishman, who made an eagle and slam-dunked a pitch for birdie en route to shooting 4-under 67. It marked his lowest career opening round score at a major and tied Jacob Slov Olesen and Haotong Li for the early first-round lead, a stroke better than world No. 1 Scottie Scheffler. Fitzpatrick, who won the 2022 U.S. Open, has never finished better than T-20 at the Open and he couldn't exactly put a finger on the reason for his struggles. 'I wouldn't say I particularly enjoy playing links golf, like I don't feel like – it's just a grind all the time, isn't it? I like a grind, but sometimes it's a grind with low scoring, and that's what I find difficult. I like hitting it to 30 feet and making a par and it's a great par; you know what I mean?' he said. 'For me, I don't necessarily see links golf as like, oh, yeah, this is super easy. I can breeze round in 4-under. I shot 4-under today, holed an eagle putt, chipped in, and I still feel like it was a grind out there … I just don't think it's necessarily as easy as some of these guys make it look.' Fitzpatrick reached as high as No. 6 in the Official World Golf Ranking but hit a rut since winning the U.S. Open. He dipped as low as No. 85 in May after the PGA Championship but pegged the Players Championship in March as his low point. 'I couldn't find the face with the ball,' he said. 'It was just not good.' Last week, he finished T-4 at the Genesis Scottish Open, his second straight top 10 after recording just one in his 14 starts of this season. He started working with instructor Mark Blackburn at the RBC Heritage and cited that decision as a turning point. 'I've just had more consistency, and from consistency, you can kind of build confidence and keep calm,' he said. On Thursday, he poured in a 22-foot eagle putt at the second and three birdies against one bogey. He hit his tee shot at the 236-yard par-3 16th to the right into a spot of bother at the hole nicknamed Calamity Corner, but it was Courageous Corner for Fitzpatrick, who holed his pitch shot for an unlikely birdie. Using a lob wedge, he lofted his ball high in the air and played aggressively after seeing fellow competitors Ryan Fox and Hideki Matsuyama come up short. Calamity Corner class. Matt Fitzpatrick makes birdie to tie the in on The Open Radio. 'It just came out a little bit harder than I anticipated and on the perfect line,' he said. China's Li, playing in his first major championship in three years, matched Fitzpatrick with a bogey-free 67. It marked his fourth career bogey-free round in a major and third at the Open. Denmark's Olesen was the other surprise co-leader. The 26-year-old pro, who earned a spot in the field at Final Qualifying, won last year's British Amateur at Ballyliffin in Ireland. He holed 146 feet of putts in his opening round and chipped in for birdie. His opening-round 67 is his lowest score worldwide since March. Scheffler, who birdied two of the last three holes to card 68, matched the lowest Open Championship round score in 25 years for a player who hit three fairways or fewer. 'I actually thought I drove it pretty good. I don't know what you guys are seeing,' he said during his post-round press conference. 'When it's raining sideways, it's actually, believe it or not, not that easy to get the ball in the fairway.' Scheffler's score was matched by Englishman Matthew Jordan, who has finished in the top 10 at the Open the last two years. LIV Golf's Lee Westwood, 52, shot 2-under 69 in his 90th career major and 28th Open, and Jon Rahm, Phil Mickelson and Shane Lowry, who won at Portrush in 2019, are in red figures at 1-under 70. Mickelson, the 2013 Open champion, has missed the cut at the first three majors this season. It was his lowest opening round at the Open since he shot 63 in 2016. Mickelson made a vintage Mickelson par when he failed to extricate himself from a greenside bunker at No. 3 and then holed out on his next attempt for a routine par. 'That bunker shot buried in the lip, and then to make it, it was obviously a lot of luck,' he said. 'It was crazy.' Players in the morning wave had to deal with a rainstorm for much of the round. Fitzpatrick called it 'more annoying than anything.' 'Anything under par on a day like this was pretty good,' Lowry said.
NBC Sports
5 days ago
- Sport
- NBC Sports
Monday qualifier for 2026 Open won't be 'gimmicky,' R&A CEO assures
Paul McGinley gives a tour of some of the most notable golf courses in Ireland and Northern Ireland, where many have flocked to in recent years. PORTRUSH, Northern Ireland – With next year's Open Championship to feature an on-site Monday qualifier for the first time in decades, R&A CEO Mark Darbon pushed back against the suggestion that the move could be viewed as 'gimmicky.' Earlier this month, the organization announced that next year it will host a one-day, 18-hole qualifier at Royal Birkdale for as many as 12 competitors on the Monday of tournament week. The event, which the R&A is billing as a 'winner-take-all Last-Chance Qualifier,' is part of the organization's effort to grow spectator interest in the tournament outside of the competition days. Few details have been released surrounding the event, including how the field will be made up, leading to speculation that it could be filled by popular but undeserving players. 'It will absolutely be true to our broad principles around exemptions and qualifications for The Open,' Darbon said. 'Everyone who hits their first tee shot here has earned the right to be here, so it will not be staged – or, to use your term, in a gimmicky fashion. It will be robust in its approach.' The Open has a variety of avenues for players to gain entry into the year's final major, from the Official World Golf Ranking to Final Qualifying (on July 1, there were four sites with five available spots each) to an Open Qualifying Series that highlights events on various tours throughout the year.
Daily Mirror
6 days ago
- Sport
- Daily Mirror
Which bookies are offering Free Bets ahead of The Open Championship 2025
Golf's finest - the likes Rory McIlroy and Tommy Fleetwood - arrive at Royal Portrush ahead of the Open Championship which promises to be a busy market for the bookmakers this week The 2025 Open Championship returns to the rugged beauty of Royal Portrush, a venue that last hosted golf's oldest major in 2019. That year, Shane Lowry delivered a masterclass, coasting to victory at 15 under par while only nine others managed to finish within eleven shots of him. Lowry's triumph wasn't just about nerves or short game wizardry—it was a showcase for those who excel with driver and irons, a trend reflected throughout the leaderboard. A glance back at the 2019 top ten—names like Tommy Fleetwood, Tony Finau, Brooks Koepka, Lee Westwood, Rickie Fowler, Tyrrell Hatton, Danny Willett, Robert MacIntyre, and Patrick Reed—reveals a group dominated by precision ball-strikers rather than power hitters or short-game specialists. Portrush demands more than brawn; it rewards those who can consistently find fairways and attack pins with crisp iron shots. What's striking is how even the world's elite found Portrush a stern test. Of the top six in the Official World Golf Ranking that summer, only Koepka managed a top-20 finish. In an era where big names often crowd major leaderboards, Portrush proved itself an equaliser—a course where only sustained quality could survive. The course itself is a classic examination of skill and nerve. Players who are in control can post red numbers, but anyone struggling will see mistakes multiply quickly. Unlike some other Open venues where scores tend to cluster tightly, Portrush produces more separation—highlighting both brilliance and frailty across the field. The opening hole sets the tone: out-of-bounds markers loom on either side of the fairway, making for a nerve-jangling start (as Rory McIlroy learned all too well last time). Looking ahead to this year's championship, Royal Portrush appears tailor-made for those who thrive with long irons and possess accuracy off the tee. It's not a place where you can simply overpower trouble or rely on miraculous recoveries around every green. Instead, it calls for players who combine calm under pressure with technical excellence. With that in mind, golfers like Collin Morikawa and Scottie Scheffler stand out as prime contenders. Scheffler in particular may finally break through at The Open—his pinpoint driving and world-class approach play are ideally suited to Portrush's exacting demands. If he can keep his ball on track and avoid the pitfalls waiting for wayward shots, he'll have every chance to claim his first Claret Jug. Royal Portrush doesn't hand out victories easily. But for those who bring their best ball-striking to Northern Ireland this summer, it offers the chance to etch their name into golfing history—just as Lowry did six years ago. 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