Max Homa has special post-Masters plans after career-best finish

Max Homa could not have had the end he envisioned on the Masters Sunday, but it surely doesn’t sound like it can derail his plans for the night.

Homa was in a four-way tie for the lead at Augusta National as he headed for the again 9 of the ultimate spherical, however Scottie Scheffler’s mid-round surge helped him put the event away. Homa was nonetheless inside shouting distance till the twelfth when his tee shot acquired a brutal bounce off the again fringe of the inexperienced resulting in a double bogey.

“The sincere reply is it didn’t really feel honest. I hit a very good golf shot, and it didn’t really feel honest. I’ve seen far worse simply roll again down the hill,” Homa mentioned of the break. “The skilled reply is this stuff occur.”

He completed with a 73 and in a three-way tie for third with Collin Morikawa and Tommy Fleetwood. It’s his best career finish in a major after he recorded his first prime 10 on the final main, the 2023 Open Championship.

“It’s bittersweet, I assume, as a result of I really feel achieved however I really feel prefer it doesn’t actually imply something within the grand scheme of issues,” Homa mentioned. “However I simply really feel like I discovered. I really feel like I took an enormous leap.

“The rhetoric on me, and that is from myself, as effectively, is I’ve not carried out in this stuff, and I carried out for all 4 days. I didn’t throw a 65 in there and sneak my method in. I needed to sleep on this each single day, this sense and form of this monkey on my again.”

Homa gained’t have to attend lengthy to get one other shot in a significant because the PGA Championship is only a month away, however you couldn’t blame him for desirous to get again to work immediately. He’s additionally in subsequent week’s subject on the RBC Heritage.

However his work for Hilton Head could have to attend. Homa’s plans for Sunday night haven’t modified, inexperienced jacket or not.

What do you suppose tomorrow will really feel like? He was requested Sunday evening.

His reply was traditional Max Homa.

“I haven’t drank in a very, actually, actually very long time, however I’ve been planning it for Sunday after the Masters, so most likely not nice,” he mentioned, earlier than reassuring the reporters round him. “It’ll be alright.”

By no means change, Max.

Jack Hirsh

Golf.com Editor

Jack Hirsh is an assistant editor at GOLF. A Pennsylvania native, Jack is a 2020 graduate of Penn State College, incomes levels in broadcast journalism and political science. He was captain of his highschool golf staff and lately returned to this system to function head coach. Jack additionally nonetheless *tries* to stay aggressive in native amateurs. Earlier than becoming a member of GOLF, Jack spent two years working at a TV station in Bend, Oregon, primarily as a Multimedia Journalist/reporter, but in addition producing, anchoring and even presenting the climate. He might be reached at jack.hirsh@golf.com.