Homa gets on the line around lunchtime and says hello.
I start in: “So Max, with the U.S. Open in L.A., and you being from right up the road with a solid track record in California, what do you think about the PGA Tour and PIF partnering up for the foreseeable future?”
He starts laughing about halfway through.
“That’s well done,” he says. “Thank you.Yeah, I’m excited to play the U.S. Open in Los Angeles. I’ll say that.”
Homa talked with GQ about his first impressions of the deal that’s poised to change his sport forever, his efforts to make golf more accessible, his outrageously zen swing, and getting emotional about golf in L.A. The rest of our conversation follows, with light edits for clarity.
GQ: From what you’ve learned so far, are you confident in this [PGA Tour-PIF] plan? How are you feeling about it?
Max Homa: I’m not going to sit here and say I’m some kind of well-informed person, but we had a lot of discussions [the day the news broke], and there’s more to information than social media. There’s a lot of headlines. In general, when you read just the top, it’s confusing, and then you usually skip the next part.
We are fortunately in a lot of these meetings where they explain a lot of things, and I trust all the people involved. I do think it’s a good thing, and it’s a bummer that it’s come before the U.S. Open, and then the news cycle is going to crush an event I’ve looked forward to for a pretty long time.
But such is life, and I guess such is the news.
Has anything about it—the crush of quick information, the process behind it, or the business partnership with the Saudi PIF—bothered you?
I don’t know if I processed it that far. Just the shock and awe of waking up to it like everyone, that was quite odd. It’s hard. In these types of situations, from the seat that I sit in, it’s better to let it breathe a little bit and wait for information to come out rather than do what I guess my visceral reaction was, which was just to be annoyed that I didn’t know.
But I mean, shoot, five people on the planet knew. The gall I’d have to have to say that I should have been one of those five would be quite crazy. I just think you got to put it in the decanter, let it breathe a little bit, and give it some time.
In response to the competition it’s encountered lately, the PGA Tour has put a bigger premium on letting us all in the media and the public have some more access to players. You did what I think was the first mid-round walk-and-talk interview in tour history earlier this season, at an event you won. Was that your idea? Did it sound insane when you first considered it?
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Homa gets on the line around lunchtime and says hello.
I start in: “So Max, with the U.S. Open in L.A., and you being from right up the road with a solid track record in California, what do you think about the PGA Tour and PIF partnering up for the foreseeable future?”
He starts laughing about halfway through.
“That’s well done,” he says. “Thank you.Yeah, I’m excited to play the U.S. Open in Los Angeles. I’ll say that.”
Homa talked with GQ about his first impressions of the deal that’s poised to change his sport forever, his efforts to make golf more accessible, his outrageously zen swing, and getting emotional about golf in L.A. The rest of our conversation follows, with light edits for clarity.
GQ: From what you’ve learned so far, are you confident in this [PGA Tour-PIF] plan? How are you feeling about it?
Max Homa: I’m not going to sit here and say I’m some kind of well-informed person, but we had a lot of discussions [the day the news broke], and there’s more to information than social media. There’s a lot of headlines. In general, when you read just the top, it’s confusing, and then you usually skip the next part.
We are fortunately in a lot of these meetings where they explain a lot of things, and I trust all the people involved. I do think it’s a good thing, and it’s a bummer that it’s come before the U.S. Open, and then the news cycle is going to crush an event I’ve looked forward to for a pretty long time.
But such is life, and I guess such is the news.
Has anything about it—the crush of quick information, the process behind it, or the business partnership with the Saudi PIF—bothered you?
I don’t know if I processed it that far. Just the shock and awe of waking up to it like everyone, that was quite odd. It’s hard. In these types of situations, from the seat that I sit in, it’s better to let it breathe a little bit and wait for information to come out rather than do what I guess my visceral reaction was, which was just to be annoyed that I didn’t know.
But I mean, shoot, five people on the planet knew. The gall I’d have to have to say that I should have been one of those five would be quite crazy. I just think you got to put it in the decanter, let it breathe a little bit, and give it some time.
In response to the competition it’s encountered lately, the PGA Tour has put a bigger premium on letting us all in the media and the public have some more access to players. You did what I think was the first mid-round walk-and-talk interview in tour history earlier this season, at an event you won. Was that your idea? Did it sound insane when you first considered it?