Rarely does it take four great rounds to win a golf tournament. Often it takes three, perhaps only two really great to be at the top of the rankings. But the most important thing is that it requires zero bad Rounds, which Max Homa has started to understand very well in recent years.
The 34-year-old on Saturday only made 64 strokes of his best round in three months that him on the rankings on the Sanderon Farms Championship, even with a closing bogey, said to be only a few strokes behind the leadership. It is the kind of round that stands out at home much more for Casual Golffans than for the professionals in the middle of Homan. It is of course if you see “HOMA -8”, as many people saw on Saturday, you might wonder if Homan could be in shape again.
We thought this during the PGA championship in May, when Homan bought a second round 64, only for Golf to hit quickly, to humiliate him to a T60. We thought it in July when Homan had a fight on the John Deere Classic and T5 finished. And we will now think at least the next 24 hours. Just don’t expect Homan to hold this one round for evidence. It was his Friday 72 who noticed him more.
During a short interview after his third round, Homan was asked: “Do you have the feeling that your Swagger might come back to you a bit?”
He has been here before.
“I don’t know,” Homan started. “I think I know – especially after that long resignation – I know that if I am not in my own way, I am a good round away from a golf tournament. A week that is good, maybe I play two there [great rounds] And I am first.
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“I just think I know what is there, and I know that if I can stay out of my own way, I can change-as yesterday felt the feeling that I could have shooted 2-, 3-over and even made it. I know that little things are that are not great when you are in the 40th, but I never really felt that I felt like a tough golf on a torn tournament on.
“I don’t know if it is Swagger, but I just think that my patience seems to be better and I am more tolerant of things that are not great, and I have a lot of confidence that I can put some good scores.”
Homan did not have his best things in that second round, but grew a bunch of pars, six times up and down when he missed the Green. That is how you turn 75 in 72, which has recently been one of the most difficult – but also the most validating – things for Homan.
His good is still really good, what is part of what you belong in that answer. It’s just when it’s not great – those days around par, maybe even one, is how you make some cuts, how you hang around in tournaments and how you just survive your best stuff.
Home has taken his calendar year into account and has had almost exactly the same amount of above -average rounds as below the average. It is therefore no surprise, his season is fluttering with many missed cuts and a handful of moments in the fight. Datagolf has him on a rating of 0.15 strokes, only a notch above the PGA Tour standard, so that he places 127th place in the data wave ranking.
That level of golf is still good and completely sustainable, but it has been about as low as Homan has been in the last five years. Occasionally 73, 74 or 75 entered in the summer, but with a frequency of approximately once a month. In the spring and early summer, Homan made those rounds a tournament about once. All this starts to look like it was extended. And is a memory that it is not always so much about your best rounds, but about limiting the damage of your worst rounds.
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