Just days after saying on-course outbursts cast a bad look and that skilled golfers “need to be held to a higher standard,” Max Homa threw his club in frustration after a poor shot in the course of the remaining spherical of the RBC Heritage on Sunday.
Homa didn’t get again to the golf green after hitting his drive right into a tree-filled waste space on the par-5 fifteenth gap at Harbour Town Golf Links in Hilton Head, South Carolina. He angrily flung his club in a downward motion, with it bouncing about 15 yards.
On Wednesday, when requested about Sergio García‘s antics on a tee box at the Masters final week, Homa was blunt about how he felt.
“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 mentioned. “… I definitely think beating up a golf course would be probably tops just because the rest of us have to play it.”
Garcia, who was given a code-of-conduct warning, issued an apology for his outburst on social media Tuesday, expressing “regret” for slamming his driver into the turf on the No. 2 tee field at Augusta National, inflicting obvious injury, earlier than hitting his driver towards a cooler and snapping the top off the club.
It just isn’t the primary time Homa has misplaced his cool, and he admitted as a lot on Wednesday. He was caught flinging a club down the golf green throughout final 12 months’s PGA Championship and on the WM Phoenix Open in 2023.
“I say a lot of bad words. I very much try to do it not when a kid can hear,” Homa mentioned 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.”
The PGA Tour has been growing a code-of-conduct coverage for competitors, and the Masters was the primary match to make use of it. The different majors are additionally possible to make use of the coverage — which ramps as much as disqualification on a 3rd violation — this 12 months.
