Days after saying on-course abuse gave a foul impression {and professional} golfers “have to be held to the next normal,” Max Homa hit a poor shot within the remaining spherical of Sunday’s RBC Heritage and threw his membership in frustration.
Homa was unable to return to the green after hitting his drive right into a wooded wasteland on the par-5 fifteenth gap at Havertown Golf Hyperlinks in Hilton Head, South Carolina. He angrily threw the membership downwards and it bounced about 15 yards.
On Wednesday, when requested about Sergio Garcia’s antics on the tee field eventually week’s Masters, Homa spoke candidly about his emotions.
“I do not like when individuals break golf equipment. I do not like when individuals vandalize golf programs, as a result of that is what we cope with. I believe when golf equipment break, it makes us look very, very spoiled,” Homa stated. “…I believe hitting the golf course might be the perfect factor, simply because the remainder of the fellows must play golf.”
Garcia, who was given a code of conduct warning, apologized on Tuesday for his abusive conduct on social media and expressed “remorse” for slamming his driver into the turf on Augusta Nationwide’s second tee field, inflicting apparent injury, after which slamming it right into a cooler, breaking the pinnacle of the membership.
This isn’t the primary time Homa has misplaced his cool, and he admitted as a lot on Wednesday. He was caught throwing a membership down the green throughout final 12 months’s PGA Championship and on the 2023 WM Phoenix Open.
“I say quite a lot of dangerous phrases, and I attempt to not say them the place my children can hear,” Homa stated Wednesday. “So I believe it is like, do not say that in entrance of the flawed individuals, be just a little extra conscious of your environment. I am not saying I’ve by no means achieved that.”
The PGA Tour has developed a aggressive code of conduct coverage, and the Masters was the primary match to make use of it. Different majors are more likely to undertake this coverage (disqualification on third offense) this 12 months.
