{"id":614977,"date":"2026-04-19T18:45:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-19T18:45:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/614977\/"},"modified":"2026-04-19T18:45:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-19T18:45:07","slug":"max-homa-after-criticizing-outbursts-throws-club-in-frustration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/614977\/","title":{"rendered":"Max Homa, after criticizing outbursts, throws club in frustration"},"content":{"rendered":"

Apr 19, 2026, 12:58 PM ET<\/p>\n

Just days after saying on-course outbursts cast a bad look<\/a> and that professional golfers “need to be held to a higher standard,” Max Homa<\/a> threw his club in frustration after a poor shot during the final round of the RBC Heritage on Sunday.<\/p>\n

Homa failed to get back to the fairway after hitting his drive into a tree-filled waste area on the par-5 15th hole at Harbour Town Golf Links in Hilton Head, South Carolina. He angrily flung his club in a downward motion<\/a>, with it bouncing about 15 yards.<\/p>\n

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On Wednesday, when asked about Sergio Garc\u00eda<\/a>‘s antics on a tee box at the Masters<\/a> last week, Homa was blunt about how he felt.<\/p>\n

“I don’t like when people break clubs. I don’t like when people beat up the golf course because we deal with it, and I think the breaking clubs makes us look very, very spoiled,” Homa said. “… I definitely think beating up a golf course would be probably tops just because the rest of us have to play it.”<\/p>\n

Garcia, who was given a code-of-conduct warning, issued an apology<\/a> for his outburst on social media Tuesday, expressing “regret” for slamming his driver into the turf on the No. 2 tee box at Augusta National, causing apparent damage, before hitting his driver against a cooler and snapping the head off the club.<\/p>\n

It is not the first time Homa has lost his cool, and he admitted as much on Wednesday. He was caught flinging a club down the fairway during last year’s PGA Championship and at the WM Phoenix Open in 2023.<\/p>\n

“I say a lot of bad words. I very much try to do it not when a kid can hear,” Homa said Wednesday. “So I do think there’s some, hey, don’t say it in front of the wrong person, like be a bit aware of your surroundings. Not saying I’ve never done it.”<\/p>\n

The PGA Tour has been developing a code-of-conduct policy for competition, and the Masters was the first tournament to use it. The other majors are also likely to use the policy — which ramps up to disqualification on a third violation — this year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Apr 19, 2026, 12:58 PM ET Just days after saying on-course outbursts cast a bad look and that…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":614978,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[443],"tags":[49,48,622,82],"class_list":["post-614977","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-golf","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-golf","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/614977","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=614977"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/614977\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/614978"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=614977"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=614977"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=614977"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}