Barracuda Championship<\/a> he had two missed calls from his wife, who is due the first week of August, and said he freaked out.<\/p>\n\u201cI can\u2019t handle the stress right now,\u201d he said then.<\/p>\n
On Thursday, he said, \u201cEvery day I finish a day of golf I look at my phone and see if I\u2019m flying home, so we\u2019ll see. It\u2019s a good problem to have.\u201d<\/p>\n
After a two-win 2023 and T9 finish at the Tour Championship, Homa was winless last season but made 18 of 22 cuts and had eight top 25s, getting to the BMW Championship but falling short of making it to East Lake for the first time in three years. This season, it\u2019s been a slightly bumpier ride. He\u2019s made 10 of 18 cuts with just one top 10, and he missed both the U.S. Open and Open Championship. It was the first time he\u2019s missed two majors in a season in six years.<\/p>\n
He missed five straight cuts from February to April, but a T12 at the Masters got him back on track. He\u2019s missed just two cuts in the nine events since and earlier this month tied for fifth at the John Deere Classic, his best finish of the season.<\/p>\n
On Thursday, Homa didn\u2019t make a bogey and didn\u2019t miss a green (the first time in his career he\u2019s went 18 for 18 in greens in regulation). He finished on the front nine and birdied two of the last three, bending his knees as the ball circled the cup to add his final birdie from 11 feet on the last.<\/p>\n
\u201cI played awesome, probably the worst I could have shot,\u201d Homa said. \u201cHit it so well. Rolled it fine, just couldn\u2019t really make a lot of putts. It was nice to lip one in on the last. Just a really good round of golf.\u201d<\/p>\n
Now, he\u2019ll have to keep it up. The field goes low at TPC Twin Cities, even when it\u2019s not preferred lies like it was on Thursday.<\/p>\n
\u201cI know what I need to do, I need to play unbelievable,\u201d he said. \u201cFortunately my game\u2019s felt awesome the last month or so, so yeah, just got to, I don\u2019t know, I don\u2019t know how you just make yourself win. I\u2019m just trying to keep doing what I\u2019m doing and see what happens on a Sunday.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BLAINE, Minn. \u2014\u00a0Max Homa needs to win this week. Of course, everyone does, but Homa really does. Let…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":39543,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[71],"tags":[427,99],"class_list":["post-39542","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-golf","tag-golf","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39542","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39542"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39542\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39543"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39542"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39542"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39542"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}