NASSAU, BAHAMAS – Max Homa experienced pangs of guilt as he left his wife and newborn son, Cam, to compete in this week’s Hero World Challenge at Albany Club.
“Didn’t expect it to be this kind of difficult,” he said. “I feel guilty being in beautiful Bahamas while my wife’s grinding changing diapers, but here I am so might as well play well.”
Homa, who has ascended to No. 16 in the Official World Golf Ranking and won the Fortinet Championship to start the 2022-23 PGA Tour campaign, took time during his pre-tournament press conference to reflect on the year that was and compared the LIV-PGA Tour drama to being in high school all over again.
“Every week was kind of fun in a way, or funny. It got old, but every Monday, Tuesday was, ‘Did you hear so-and-so is going? Is that true? Did you hear this about this tournament? Is that true?’ It felt like you were in high school again in a way and you just got out to lunch and you got a text while you were in math that somebody got in a fight with somebody and now you’re going to go figure out what part of that was true, and rarely any of that was true, which is exactly how this season was for us. So, I think part of it is just like enjoying the little noise.”
Homa counted himself among the “fortunate,” who didn’t get caught in the rumor mill and have to field a steady diet of questions of whether they were going to be the next player to jump to LIV.
“You know, hearing stories about certain guys saying, ‘Oh, I hear he’s gone.’ and then I’ll talk to them and they’ll say, ‘I haven’t talked to them in months,’ so this is just made up. I feel bad for them, I feel that’s a much harder gig.
“Obviously what Rory’s been doing and playing so well, kind of feels like two jobs, is tricky. Mine was just the fun end of it. Hear a rumor, joke about the rumor, forget about the rumor and move along, so it wasn’t so bad for me.”
Yet in a twisted way, Homa said he tried to insert himself into the conversation “just for the fun of it,” and cracked that it was “a huge insult” that his efforts to do so went unnoticed.
“I guess it would have been cool to be a part of that so I could live the life of, you know, it felt like a reality TV series for a bit,” he said. “I guess I tried. I changed my bio on Twitter once when I think Brooks changed his bio and everyone figured out he was going or something like that. I was like, ‘Oh, I’m going to get in on this…
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