Max Homa Getting Closer

Originally posted on Athlon Sports | By Alex Miceli | Last updated Feb 11, 2025 5:23 PM ET

Usually, when a professional golfer misses the cut, the week would be considered a bust.

Yet, last week in Scottsdale, Max Homa seemed to struggle shooting 76-69. Still, on Tuesday at the Genesis Invitational, the six-time winner explained that he left Arizona feeling encouraged by what he did at the Phoenix Open.

The only player in the field to have won both the Farmers at Torrey and the Genesis at Riviera, Homa returns to San Diego having withdrew after a first-round 77 earlier this month at the Farmers.

Since then, he finished T53 at the no-cut event at Pebble Beach and missed the cut in Arizona.

“I know I'm moving in the right direction,” Homa said of his game as he arrives back in San Diego. “I've had some really bad weeks.”

Homa went on to say that when he was at Torrey, he played horrendously, then played awful at Pebble, and last week was finally a massive breakthrough.

“On Monday, Tuesday, felt like I've been looking for this kind of missing link and I got it,” Homa said.”

After a T3 at last year's Masters and then a month later a T8 at the Wells Fargo Championship, Homa’s game went sideways, and then his results after Charlotte is a crooked line that he acknowledges.

“I've been incredibly frustrated since April, but I also see- I find pride in waking up after a hard day and having the energy to go get better,” Homa said. “So I do think at the end of all my days, and I would assume most people would think this way about themselves whatever walk of life you're in, whatever job you have, if I never have another good result again that would be a massive bummer, but I could rest easy, maybe in some years I could rest easy knowing I'm doing absolutely everything I possibly can to do that.”

Signing with Cobra, Homa bristles when it is suggested that the equipment change he made at the beginning of the year had anything to do with his poor performance.

Calling the change 0-10 of why his game has struggled, Homa has the utmost confidence in his equipment.

“I think something that really bothers me about how poorly I played is that I'm not giving or showing how great the Cobra stuff is, to be quite honest,” Homa said. “It's my own fault I've played poorly, but there's been no golf club issue, there's been no swing where I make a good one and I think to myself, I wonder if that would have flown better with a different golf club.”

Homa is committed to trusting the process and while other may think his game is getting worse, he knows he’s getting better, no matter what the results say.

“I think I know what I'm doing is right,” Homa said. “It's very difficult to continue to see bad, but last week I actually hit the ball incredible, and I missed the cut by five. Golf does not like me at the moment, I've noticed that.”

This article first appeared on Athlon Sports and was syndicated with permission.

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