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Max Homa never blinked.

Not through two days of constant rain. Not when the thermometer barely got past 50 degrees the final two days of the Wells Fargo Championship. Not when gusting winds made matters cooler and forced players to adjust on the already brutal and saturated TPC Potomac at Avenal Farm north of the nation’s capital.

Instead, Homa, whether chasing the lead or holding it the final 36 holes, relied on his calm demeanor and never altered his game plan of concentrating on hitting fairways and greens. In other words, as the golf cliché says, he plodded his way through the miserable elements one shot at a time and ended up with the fewest shots to win his fourth PGA Tour title and second Wells Fargo Championship.

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He was at his low-key best when he took a three-shot lead to the 70 th  hole. As playing partner Keegan Bradley made birdie, Homa was forced to make a 6-foot bogey putt to maintain a one-stroke lead. He buried it.

Two solid pars later, Homa signed for a 2-under-par 68 to finish at 8 under, two shots clear of the field. Homa, who was ranked 100 th  in the official world rankings in January 2021, won for the third time in 14 months, including receiving the championship hardware from Tiger Woods at last year’s Genesis Invitational.

He is now 29 th  in the world.

He also joined Rory McIlroy as the only players with multiple Wells Fargo wins. As well, he became the fifth multiple winner on the PGA Tour this season.

“Life’s good,” said Homa, who joined his wife, Lacey, to reveal in late April on social media that the two are expecting their first child, a boy. “I’ve got a good life and I’m playing good golf. I’m coming into my own. I’m starting to believe in myself more.

“Keegan is a really good golfer. I knew he was never going to go away and I just tried to keep hitting good shots. Obviously seen some low spots on this tour and for the last three years now kind of finding my stride and racking up four wins is crazy.”

Homa birdied the first from eight feet and took the lead after Bradley made double on the second. A two-shot swing evened things on the seventh hole and Bradley took the lead with a birdie on the eighth. But Homa birdied nine and 10 and took a three-shot lead when Bradley doubled the 11 th . From there, Homa never relinquished the lead, adding one birdie from 12 feet on the 15 th  and several gut-check par putts from 6-8 feet.

A resilient victory in the DMV 🏆 pic.twitter.com/9aCqdrozdA — PGA TOUR (@PGATOUR) May 8, 2022

Bradley, the 54-hole leader by two shots, was trying to win for the first time since the 2018 BMW Championship. The 2011 PGA Championship winner had an up-and-down day with two double bogeys, three bogeys and five birdies. He shot a 72 to fall into a tie for second at 6 under. Matt Fitzpatrick, who has seven wins on the DP World Tour, made a good run at his first PGA Tour title with a final-round 67 to finish at 6 under. Also at 6 under was Cameron Young (66).

“I didn’t play my best golf today,” Bradley said. “It was choppy and then I had a couple good stretches but I had a chance there at the end, so I’m proud of that aspect of it. But I’m pretty bummed, I felt pretty good about this one.

“I’m happy with where my game is at, especially my putting. Jeez, if I can putt like this, I feel like I can do a lot of damage the rest of the year.”

Defending champion Rory McIlroy, the only player with three Wells Fargo titles, grinded his way through the rain and darkness to make the cut on the number on Friday, getting up-and-down from a greenside bunker on his last hole.

Then he moved up 44 spots with a 68 in the third round and got within two shots of the lead with a birdie on the 10 th  on Sunday. He scared the hole on numerous birdie putts coming in but shot 68 to finish at 4 under and in fifth place.

“Had my chances,” McIlroy said. “Played the last eight holes in 1 over, which whenever you give yourself a chance and got withing like 2, obviously not the way you want to finish, but played well. Overall it’s been a good weekend, a decent week, something to build on going into the PGA (Championship in two weeks). No complaints with the game.

“Everything feels pretty solid. As I said, just a couple things here and there coming down the stretch, a couple missed putts, but really apart from that I feel like the game’s in good shape.”

While Homa is hilarious in the world of Twitter, he displays the perfect poker face inside the gallery ropes. He never gets too high, never gets too low. And if he did, no one could tell by looking at him.

And his skills cannot be doubted. He’s become an excellent driver of the golf ball, an exceptional iron player and a solid putter. With growing confidence, he looks like he’ll continue a steady march to the elite level of the game.

“I started to establish myself on this tour when I won this event in 2019,” Homa said. “I definitely knew I was capable of being a regular PGA Tour player, but all of a sudden last year I get in the top 50 in the world and you start looking around and it’s a new crop of people and you start thinking to myself, Am I as good as these guys? And then I want to be top 10 in the world, play Presidents Cup, play Ryder Cups. Am I good enough to do that?

“So I’ve always struggled with it, but I have great people around me who bash me over the head telling me that I am that guy. I tried to walk around this week believing that and faking it a little bit until I made it.”

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Max Homa captures his fourth PGA Tour win at Wells Fargo Championship

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Max Homa played solid, steady golf during a week of cold, wet conditions and a back-and-forth Sunday duel with Keegan Bradley, closing with a two-under 68 for a two-shot victory in the Wells Fargo Championship.

An emerging star on the PGA Tour whose only missing achievement is contention in a major, the 31-year-old Homa finished at 8-under 272 at TPC Potomac at Avenel Farm. He won for the fourth time overall, third in 15 months and second since he gave up his popular podcast.

“I just feel like I’m coming into my own. I’m starting to believe in myself a lot and that’s all I can ask for,” said Homa, whose next start will be in two weeks at the PGA Championship.

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With his win last September in Napa, California, Homa joins Scottie Scheffler (four), Hideki Matsuyama (two), Sam Burns (two) and Cameron Smith (two) as multiple winners on tour this season. He also moves to sixth in the Presidents Cup standings, meaning he’s in position to earn a return visit this September to the Wells Fargo’s usual home, Quail Hollow in Charlotte, North Carolina.

Homa got his first career win in 2019 at Quail Hollow, which took the year off as Wells Fargo host while it prepares for the U.S.-versus-International team competition. TPC Potomac, which last hosted the tour in 2018, filled in ably despite torrential rain on Friday and Saturday and unseasonably cold temperatures most of the week.

Bradley started the day with a two-shot lead, gave it away on the par-5 second hole and took it back on the par-4 eighth before Homa finally took command for good on the back nine. A bogey on the closing hole gave Bradley a 2-over 72 and a tie for second with Cameron Young and Matt Fitzpatrick.

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DULUTH, Ga. — Steve Flesch rallied from four shots behind with a seven-under 65 for a one-shot victory in the Mitsubishi Electric Classic, his second title at the TPC Sugarloaf.

Flesch also won this tournament in 2018, his only other win on the PGA Tour Champions.

Flesch finished the second round badly and figured he had nothing to lose. He even switched back to his old set of irons for the final round.

“It’s been a trying couple of years,” Flesch said. “But man, it’s really, really satisfying.”

David Toms had a two-shot lead on the back nine when he missed a 6-foot birdie putt on the 13th and then a 6-footer for par on the 14th. Needing a birdie to force a playoff, Toms had a hybrid for his second shot on the par-5 18th and then chose to lay up.

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Inside the Numbers: Max Homa’s ascent

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Perhaps no player on the PGA TOUR has seen his star ascend as quickly the last 24 months as Max Homa.

His emotional victory two years ago at Riviera seemingly strapped rocket boosters to an already-rising career. Quickly, he grew into one of the most prolific winners on TOUR: since the 2021 Genesis Invitational began, Homa’s five wins are tied for most of any player, alongside Patrick Cantlay and Rory McIlroy. Long known for his affable demeanor and humorous social media game, Homa’s on-course achievements have now caught up to his off-course presence.

Statistically, how has Max evolved into one of the best players on TOUR? His rise is less overnight success, but more a testament to the steady growth of a maturing pro.

Homa’s ascent into the upper tier of PGA TOUR performers has been steady since 2018-19. He’s gone from 117th on TOUR in scoring average that season, to 102nd, to 60th, to 23rd in 2021-22. That makes him one of five qualified players to have improved his PGA TOUR scoring average rank each of the previous three seasons. The others to do it are Luke List, Russell Henley, Sam Burns and Seamus Power. What’s even more impressive about Homa is that he’s improving yet again early in 2022-23: he’s currently 11th in the statistic this season.

Over the last 12 months, Homa is ranked sixth on the PGA TOUR in Strokes Gained: Total per round (+1.74). The hallmark of Homa’s statistical profile during this span is that he doesn’t have many weaknesses. Case in point: Homa is the only player on the PGA TOUR in that stretch to average +0.30 Strokes Gained per round in each of the four key disciplines: Off-the-Tee, Approach the Green, Around the Green and Putting.

One of the most impressive things about Homa’s recent on-course performance has been his consistency. Through the end of the 2020-21 PGA TOUR season, Homa had shown his lofty ceiling, picking up two wins – but had missed 60 cuts in 127 career starts to that point. Since the start of last season, though, Homa has missed only three cuts in 30 tournaments – and none since The Open Championship last July.

Homa has been especially lethal in his home state of California, where he’s picked up four of his six career PGA TOUR wins. Over the last 10 years, that’s tied with Jon Rahm for most official victories in the Golden State. Since the beginning of 2020, Homa is 123 under par in PGA TOUR events in California, the fourth-best cumulative sum in that stretch. He’s also among the leaders in Strokes Gained: Total (fifth), birdies-or-better per round (seveth) and Strokes Gained: Putting.

Homa’s balanced excellence through the bag flashes in California, too. Since the beginning of 2020, Max Homa is one of just two qualified players to average at least 0.9 Strokes Gained: Ball Striking (Off-the-Tee + Approach) and 0.9 Strokes Gained: Short Game (Around-the-Green + Putting) per round in PGA TOUR events in the state. Daniel Berger is the other.

At minimum, Homa has been an above-average iron player over the last five years. But his development into one of the game’s best has correlated strongly with a step up in his Strokes Gained: Approach numbers. In 2019-20, Homa ranked a respectable 84th on TOUR in that statistic, gaining a little over one-tenth of a stroke per round on the field with his approach shots. He’s now ranked in the top-20 on TOUR in that stat. A key yardage bracket where he’s seen the most improvement has been from 175 to 200 yards away. In 2020, he was just one inch better than the TOUR average from that range. Now? A full 5 feet better than the TOUR mean.

Homa’s short game numbers have improved steadily as well over the last several seasons. His rank in the always significant scrambling statistic is emblematic of that: Max is 20th this season getting it up-and-down, an improvement of 62 spots over where he ranked in both 2021 and 2022 (82nd). Homa is currently 21st on TOUR in Strokes Gained: Around the Green this year. If he continues on that pace, it will be his fourth season in a row improving his TOUR ranking in that metric.

As if all of that wasn’t enough, Homa’s also putting it brilliantly in 2022-23. Hitting approach shots closer inherently provides a player with more realistic birdie opportunities. Not only is Homa hitting it closer, more often – he’s making the putts, too (eighth on TOUR this season in birdie conversion percentage). Last year, Max made just 23.8 percent of his putts from 10 to 15 feet away, ranked 180th on TOUR. That number has skyrocketed to 44.6% early in ’22-23, a rate bettered by only two players.

When Homa won the Farmers Insurance Open last month, he became just the sixth player to win an official PGA TOUR event at both Torrey Pines and The Riviera Country Club. Each of the previous five men to achieve the feat are also major champions, with four of them winning at least one Masters title. A marquee major championship performance is seemingly the next box for Homa to tick on the career checklist: his best major finish was a tie for 13th last May at Southern Hills.

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Max Homa rallies from six-shot deficit for sixth PGA Tour victory at 2023 Farmers Insurance Open

Max Homa started the final round of the Farmers Insurance Open five shots back of Sam Ryder. With 16 holes to go, Homa trailed by six.

However, two brilliant shots into the back-nine par 3s that resulted in birdies capped a stellar final round that saw Homa shoot 6-under 66 to win at Torrey Pines for his sixth PGA Tour victory. It’s Homa’s second victory of the 2022-23 Tour season, including his win at the Fortinet Championship in September, and his fourth triumph in the state of California.

It’s the fifth time Homa has trailed entering the final round and ended up winning. He finished at 13 under, two strokes ahead of Keegan Bradley and three in front of Collin Morikawa.

The closest tee shot of the day on No. 16. @MaxHoma23 cashes in with a birdie. pic.twitter.com/IOVjfl0IlW — PGA TOUR (@PGATOUR) January 29, 2023

Ryder’s downfall came on the 15th hole, when his tee shot went into the right rough and his second came up well short of the green. His third shot went long and into the rough. He ended up making double bogey and added another bogey on the 17th.

Keegan Bradley made a run late, firing the only bogey-free round of the day with a 6-under 66. He pulled his second shot on the par-5 18th into the bunker left of the green, and he was unable to get up-and-down for birdie. Bradley, who won the Zozo Championship earlier this season, finished at 11 under.

Jon Rahm, who entered the final round in second place with a chance for his third win in as many starts, bogeyed his first hole and shot 3 over on the front nine. He wasn’t able to recover from his poor start.

Homa made headlines during the third round when he was mic’d up during a hole. It’s something he said he hopes sticks around. With him being the first to be mic’d up during a round and going on to win, others could be lined up to do so in the future.

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SAN DIEGO — It could be said that the Torrey Pines golf complex now represents something of a life-and-death circumstance for Max Homa when he's competes in the Farmers Insurance Open. Not literally, of course. But on the same grass, the popular Californian has both absorbed the loss of his childhood idol, NBA star Kobe Bryant, and the joys of cooing at his 2-month-old baby boy, Cam, as the newly crowned tournament champion.

As Homa fiercely battled a handful of major champions and a hopeful journeyman late in the fourth round of a Saturday conclusion on the Torrey Pines South Course, he said his mind did drift to thoughts of Bryant, of Kobe's competitive tenacity, and of his tragic death three years ago this week in a helicopter crash. That day, on Sunday at the Farmers, news of the Los Angeles Lakers great’s passing drifted out to players either during their rounds or when they’d signed their cards.

“This place … I have a weird feeling towards it,” Homa said. “I love it, and it has like a weird sadness to it.”

The emotional balance of that played out again and again for Homa during this Farmers week, with his wife, Lacey, walking a couple of rounds with their son in a baby carrier on her chest. And the happiness was never more palpable than after Homa made a short birdie putt on the 72nd hole to finish off a stirring final-round comeback. Five shots behind leader Sam Ryder at the start, Homa applied early pressure by shooting four under on the front, and he then birdied two of the harder par 3s on the PGA Tour, Nos. 11 and 16, to pull away with a six-under-par 66 for his sixth career victory and second in three months.

Homa finished with a total of 13 under, two strokes better than former PGA Championship winner Keegan Bradley, who charged with his own 66. Collin Morikawa, the two-time major winner who did his best in the same group with Homa to push his fellow Cal alum, managed a 69 and finished solo third, three back.

Ryder, who is winless on tour and was trying to become this tournament's first wire-to-wire champion since Johnny Miller in 1982, stumbled with a back nine of 38, scored three-over 75 and tied for fourth. Jon Rahm, going for a victory in his third straight tour start and only two shots off the lead at the outset, suffered a bogey at the first hole and a double bogey at the fifth and never recovered in scoring 74 to tie for seventh.

As he waited to try his final putt on the 18th, Homa broke his competitive concentration and looked around for Lacey and Cam. Once they made eye contact, he waved and smiled. When he’d made the four-foot birdie and retrieved his ball, the 32-year-old accepted congratulations and made a beeline to them and put his bearded face close to Cam’s.

“[Cam] has no idea what I did," Homa said, "but I will tell him this story ad nauseam and he will probably think I’m the worst for it. But this will be my corny dad story that I will tell every Thanksgiving or something."

Max Homa celebrates his Farmers Open win this wife, Lacey, and their son, Cam.

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At this rate, Cam Homa is going to have plenty more chances to see his father lift a trophy. Max, a former NCAA champion at Cal-Berkeley, had his share of tough times on the PGA Tour, twice losing his card, only to regain it. He got his breakthrough win at the Wells Fargo Championship in 2019, but there was a dry spell in 2020 and he seemingly became as well known for his podcast and entertaining tweets as he did for his game.

That changed in 2021, when Homa won his own “fifth" major by capturing the Genesis Invitational at L.A.'s Riviera Country Club, only miles from where he was born and grew up. It was as if that triumph infused him with a confidence he didn’t yet possess. Homa has since won back-to-back titles in the Fortinet Championship in Northern California, securing the second one last October at the start of this current season, and he scored a second Wells Fargo win in ‘22.

There’s a pattern here. Similar to Tiger Woods, he’s got his favored tracks, and he’s got a great affinity for the tournaments in his home state.

Homa didn’t play Torrey Pines well in the beginning, missing his first three cuts here. But his fortunes changed on the Sunday that Bryant died, as Homa closed with a 67 on the South to tie for ninth. His caddie, Joe Greiner, saw a different look in his eyes that day.

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"When we came off the green that day, I said he was going to win this," Greiner said. "I’ve told so many people there are five or six tournaments that he’s going to win, and this was definitely one of them. It just suits his eye; Poa annua greens; you’ve got to drive the ball straight; ball-strike it around. Anytime 12 under is around the lead, he’s going to play well.”

Homa agreed.

“That T-9 I think gave me some confidence. ‘All right, I can play this golf course,’” Homa said. “I think I came in here, got a little psyched out just because of how difficult it could be, and I started to realize that you don't need to hit every fairway. If I play my game, it actually does kind of suit me pretty well.”

For the week, Homa found eight of 14 fairways in each of his three rounds on the two-time U.S Open South Course, but the win came on the strength of iron play, where he was No. 1 in the field in strokes gained/approach (plus-8.38 for the week). It didn’t hurt that he was ninth in strokes gained/putting, where he was plus-3.44 shots just on Saturday.

The key birdies in the final round both came on onerous par 3s that Homa attacked with his 4-iron. When he birdied the 213-yard 11th by making a 12-foot putt, Greiner said to him, “That’s a Tiger 2 right there.” What he did at the 227-yard 16th was even more impressive because the pin position was almost impossible to reach and played as the toughest hole of the day. Homa, though, striped his shot to 15 feet and made one of only three birdies there. “Obviously, that was a huge shot,” the caddie said. “Every shot he hit felt huge today.”

Max Homa pumps his fist after making a birdie on the 16th hole in the final round.

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In the thick of the back-nine fight, Homa said he drew inspiration from thoughts about Kobe Bryant.

"I've always had a bit of a chip on my shoulder, just grew up a huge Kobe fan," he said. "He just seemed to play basketball like that and I've always loved trying to play golf like that and work at it like that. So when I get in these moments, I feel like all of it combined eases me a bit."

In Greiner’s opinion, Homa has evolved into a very different player, both physically and mentally, from just a few years ago. The golfer rebuilt his swing with instructor Mark Blackburn and has worked on the mental side with sports psychologist Julie Elion.

“Knowing how hard this game can be, you need to give yourself a break,” Greiner said. “He was always so hard on himself. Now he knows he can make a bogey and still win a golf tournament. He can still make a mistake and win. Knowing that he’s good enough, it’s a lot easier for him to walk down fairways. He knows he doesn’t have to be perfect.”

It was quite the week for Homa. Beyond the victory, his son “saw” his first birdie on Friday, and he became the first player to wear a mic (for CBS) during an official competitive round . In that, he will be noted as a pioneer in what figures to be a growing trend. Known for being a droll jokester on social media, Homa spoke eloquently about the highs and lows he’s experienced.

“I think I have a great perspective towards my love for this game. I've seen kind of all of it,” he said. “I remind myself most days too, when I'm getting nervous coming down the stretch or things are getting wobbly … I just kind of always remind myself you've seen the darkness of this game—enjoy this, enjoy the beauty of it. People chanting my name, things I could never have imagined.”

It's not life and death. But then again, it is.

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With 1 swing, Max Homa entered the PGA Tour record book Saturday

Max Homa is now a PGA Tour record holder.

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Rory McIlroy may have set the PGA Tour driving distance record last season, but in 2024, Max Homa is the PGA Tour’s biggest hitter.

With conditions ripe for huge drives at Kapalua this week, already leading to 220 400-yard drives through three rounds at the Sentry , Homa unleashed a poke for the record books Saturday.

On the 7th hole — his 16th of the day — Homa ripped one on the 525-yard downhill par-4 that rolled, and rolled, and rolled before finishing just 43 yards from the hole. The bomb measured out to 477 yards, the longest in the PGA Tour’s Shotlink era (since 2003). It just edges out Davis Love III’s 476 drive on the 18th of the final round at the 2004 event at Kapalua.

Can confirm from @PGATOURComms that @Maxhoma ’s drive on 7 yesterday was the longest drive of the Shotlink era https://t.co/dBXB0QtH3M — Jack Hirsh (@JR_HIRSHey) January 7, 2024

Unfortunately, Homa started the third round Saturday T23 and in the first group of the day on the 10th tee, so there was no video on the NBC or ESPN+ broadcasts of the record drive. Nor did the PGA Tour have a radar device on the 7th tee at the time so we do not know the launch statistics for the tee shot.

Nevertheless, it’s not hard to figure out how Homa was able to accomplish the feat as the 7th, which is already significantly downhill from tee-to-green, played downwind too during the third round. In fact, the average drive in the 59-man field Saturday on the hole went 406.3 yards, the longest of any hole at the Plantation course. No drive went less than 338 yards on No. 7.

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That’s all despite Homa being just the 62nd-ranked golfer in driving distance last season with a 304.8 average. McIlroy set a PGA Tour record for driving distance last season at 326.3 yards.

While the USGA is focused on rolling back the golf ball , it was simple gravity that led to the record-breaking tee ball.

Anyway, in classic Max Homa-form, the 33-year-old wise guy had a little fun with the achievement on Twitter.

For it being uphill into the wind with no roll I was pretty proud of this one https://t.co/3UXfT97tFB — max homa (@Maxhoma) January 7, 2024

“For it being uphill into the wind with no roll,” Homa tweeted, likely sarcastically, “I was pretty proud of this one.”

In addition to being the longest drive on No. 7, Homa’s tee shot was also just one of 13 (22%) to stay in the fairway Saturday. The fairway slopes hard from left to right and many drives Saturday caught a bunker — or the rough around it — that is just 420 yards off the tee. The fairway necks around 430 yards from the tee.

They say, “Drive for show, putt for dough,” but Homa made good on his mammoth tee ball by getting the flip wedge up and down. His pitch ended up less than four feet from the hole and he converted for his fourth birdie of the day.

Homa added another birdie on 8 and parred the ninth to post a five-under 68. He’ll start the final round T17 at 15 under, six shots behind leader Chris Kirk.

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Jack Hirsh is an assistant editor at GOLF. A Pennsylvania native, Jack is a 2020 graduate of Penn State University, earning degrees in broadcast journalism and political science. He was captain of his high school golf team and recently returned to the program to serve as head coach. Jack also still *tries* to remain competitive in local amateurs. Before joining GOLF, Jack spent two years working at a TV station in Bend, Oregon, primarily as a Multimedia Journalist/reporter, but also producing, anchoring and even presenting the weather. He can be reached at [email protected] .

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Who is Max Homa? The California golfer is on top of the 2024 Masters leaderboard Friday

Max Homa has his eyes on his first green jacket at the 2024 Masters Tournament , completing a 5-under-par 67 for the first round on Friday morning and beginning the second round with a birdie on Nos. 2 and 4 to tie Bryson DeChambeau at the top of the leaderboard at 7 under.

Homa, whose nine birdies lead the field currently, is ranked fifth in the Official World Golf Ranking and has five top-25 appearances worldwide in 2024.

While the Masters leaderboard will certainly change between now and Sunday, the final day of the tournament, Homa is dialed in.

Here's everything to know about Homa after his sizzling start to the Masters:

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Homa is a California native on the PGA Tour who won the NCAA Division I men's golf title in 2013 as a senior at University of California, Berkeley .

The 33-year-old turned pro in 2013 but struggled early, not finding success until 2019. He broke the seal by winning the Wells Fargo Championship  for his first PGA Tour victory, and two years later he won the  Genesis Invitational  and the  Fortinet Championship . In 2022, Homa won the  Wells Fargo Championship  for a second time and defended the  Fortinet Championship , earning him a spot on the 2022 Presidents Cup team en route to a 4-0 record.

In 2023, Homa won the  Farmers Insurance Open and earned a spot on the 2023 Ryder Cup U.S. team, finishing 3-1-1 and winning his singles match against Matt Fitzpatrick in a 16.5-11.5 loss to the European team. He took that momentum into winning the  Nedbank Golf Challenge  in South Africa for his first victory outside of the United States.

The 2024 Masters marks Homa's fifth appearance at Augusta National. He missed his first two cuts at Augusta National before finishing T48 and T43 the last two years.

Max Homa tournament history

Homa has won six PGA Tour tournaments but never the Masters.

Max Homa's career earnings

Homa has career earnings of $25,152,203, according to his PGA Tour profile.

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Max Homa Takes His Star Turn at the U.S. Open

The California native had previously played well at Los Angeles Country Club, but first rounds at major tournaments haven’t always gone smoothly. On Thursday, he found his game for a two-under 68.

By Alan Blinder

Reporting from Los Angeles

For a decade now, Max Homa has had regrets.

A gettable birdie on the Los Angeles Country Club’s sixth hole had eluded him. On No. 8, it took him three putts to find the cup.

He finished that round in 2013 with a course-record 61. In his mind, his scorecard could have read — should have read — 59. The U.S. Open, which began Thursday at the course that still haunts one of its one-round masters a little, could allow him to cast just about all of that aside by Sunday night.

If Homa can move beyond the past. If he can ratchet down his internal insistence on flawlessness when he plays golf’s most formidable tests. If he can tolerate the pressures and distractions and expectations of being a guy from Los Angeles County who is positioned to star at a U.S. Open just a few traffic nightmares away from the public course he grew up playing in Valencia.

“I am good enough to win whatever I want — I’ve decided that,” Homa, who finished Thursday with a two-under-par 68, said in a recent interview. “I need to go out and do that.”

Few players have been as good during this PGA Tour season. Homa has won twice, most recently in January at Torrey Pines, and had seven other top-10 finishes, including a runner-up showing at the Genesis Invitational, played at the nearby Riviera Country Club.

But the major tournaments have been the scenes of stumbles. He tied for 43rd at the Masters Tournament and fared even worse at last month’s P.G.A. Championship. Last year, the P.G.A. Championship had been the site of his best major tournament outing, a tie for 13th.

Entering this week’s Open, though, Homa saw the course as favorable to his game, given his particular skill at high shots and comfort, dating back a decade, with the four- and five-irons that L.A.C.C. can demand.

No, he knew, his problem this week would probably not be technical or mechanical. His most pressing dilemma was to settle his mind well enough that he could play a major without punishing himself for this error or that one.

“It just feels like at the majors when I’ve done a poor job, I feel like I’ve been trying to be perfect,” he said. “I don’t need to feel and play perfect to contend.”

The approach worked well enough on Thursday, the day that has so often frustrated Homa on the biggest stages. His performance tied his best opening round at any major tournament; he first played one in 2013, when he missed the cut at the U.S. Open at Merion.

In more familiar environs, Homa notched his first birdie on the third hole. At the sixth hole — a par-4 of 330 yards that can thwart players with a blind tee shot and a green that can feel remarkably tight for a region so familiar with sprawl — Homa made the birdie that did not happen during his fabled Pac-12 Championship round. A bogey at the seventh hole brought him back to one under, before he birdied No. 8, the other source of his could-have-been-better misery. He played the back nine to even par.

When he stepped off the course early Thursday afternoon, he was near the top of the leaderboard but trailing Rickie Fowler, who shot a 62, the lowest single-round score in U.S. Open history, by six strokes. (Xander Schauffele soon after turned in the same score: 62, tying Branden Grace’s major tournament record from the 2017 British Open at Royal Birkdale.)

Scottie Scheffler, the world’s top-ranked player and a member of Homa’s group, finished his round at three under par. Collin Morikawa, the two-time major tournament winner and another star from Southern California, was one over.

Bryson DeChambeau, the 2020 U.S. Open winner, who was in another group, finished his day tied with Scheffler, Paul Barjon and Si Woo Kim.

“There are going to be times that people hit it in the rough, and I think the person that’s going to win is going to hit the most fairways and going to make the most putts and also hit it on the greens,” said DeChambeau, who won the Open at Winged Foot the same year Homa went eight over par in the first round. “It’s a simple formula, obviously. But again, you have to execute it, right? That’s the whole point of a U.S. Open.”

It is, DeChambeau added, supposed to be rigorous.

Homa, of course, reveled in his Thursday even as he cautioned that it was much too early to declare anything close to a victory. He had a Thursday morning tee time, when the course was in the realm of soft, to start. By Friday afternoon, he warned, the place could be hellish.

The U.S. Golf Association is hardly known for indulging easy Opens.

The association’s devilish concoctions will be Friday’s problem, though. Thursday, with greens that were not exacting and a course receptive to strong iron play, was merely a start.

“From the first tee to the last putt, I was very accepting and just looked at today as just a round of golf that will set me up toward the rest of the week,” Homa said after he had finished his round. “I think that they have the old cliché that you can’t win it the first day, you could lose it, and I lose a lot of these things on the first day.”

Maybe something clicked these last few weeks as he contemplated how to manage the atmospherics that accompany playing a major tournament close to home.

“There’s obviously, in ways, more pressure, but that’s coming from outside expectation that because a championship is in my backyard, quote-unquote, that I should now be a favorite to win,” he said in the interview. “On the inside, it’s just cool.”

So he was concentrating on the simple things, like smiling. What would happen, he wondered, if he treated preparations for the Open as if they were as pleasurable as those for an ordinary tour event with lower stakes?

He could do nothing, he acknowledged, to combat what everyone else would think, the cheers that would rumble from the galleries, the groans that perhaps lurked, too.

Carefree, or at least as carefree as a professional golfer can get at a U.S. Open, was the strategy.

After all, he said, “I’m getting to do something I would have lost my mind about as a kid.”

On Thursday afternoon, he recalled, that Pac-12 Championship in 2013 had felt like “the biggest thing in the world.”

“This,” he added, “is quite a bit bigger.”

Alan Blinder is a sports reporter. He has reported from more than 30 states, as well as Asia and Europe, since he joined The Times in 2013. More about Alan Blinder

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The six-time PGA Tour winner is set to make his sixth U.S. Open start. Homa claimed the Wells Fargo Championship for a second time, winning at TPC Potomac at Avenel Farm. He joined Rory McIlroy as the only multiple champions of this event. Has has since won the Fortinet Championship and Farmers Insurance Open, giving him four victories in his native California. Homa's maiden PGA Tour win in the Wells Fargo was at traditional site Quail Hollow Country Club in Charlotte, N.C., but because the venue was hosting the 2022 Presidents Cup, the event was moved to TPC Potomac. Homa also owns a pair of Korn Ferry Tour victories: the 2014 BMW Charity Pro-Am and the 2016 Rust-Oleum Championship. Homa, who now lives in Scottsdale, Ariz., enjoyed a stellar amateur career that culminated in playing on the victorious 2013 USA Walker Cup Team. In 2010, Homa reached the quarterfinals of the U.S. Amateur at Chambers Bay. He also won the 2013 NCAA Division I individual title for the University of California-Berkeley. He represented the United States on the victorious 2022 Presidents Cup Team and was a member of the 2023 U.S. Ryder Cup Team.

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Tiger Woods' TGL team includes top 10 player in the world, rising PGA Tour star

Max Homa called it "a dream" to play in Tiger Woods ' group the first two days of the Masters. When asked following Friday's competition what he will remember from his round, he said just "a lot of Tiger stuff."

Now, Homa will build on those memories going forward.

Homa is joining Woods' Jupiter Links Golf Club in TGL, the interactive golf league headed by Woods and Rory McIlroy. The four-man team was announced Monday morning with Homa, Tom Kim and Kevin Kisner joining Woods.

"I have three guys on my team that I enjoy being around, that I know are going to work hard and grind as team members, can talk a little trash and will have a great time," Woods told The Palm Beach Post. "If I compete in something, I want to win."

TGL, backed by TMRW Sports, is preparing for its inaugural season, which starts Jan. 7. The league will be played in Palm Beach Gardens at a venue being built on the campus of Palm Beach State College.

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Homa, 33, is No. 9 in the current world ranking. He is one of five top 10 golfers in TGL. He watched Woods make history at Augusta when the Jupiter Island resident became the first to make 24 consecutive Masters cuts. While  Woods faltered on the weekend, shooting a 10-over 82 Saturday, his highest score ever at the Masters, Homa then went on to complete his best-ever major, finishing tied for third.

"Following Tiger’s career is one of the main reasons that I became an avid golfer," said Homa, who has six PGA Tour wins. "I remember watching him win the 1997 Masters, and now getting to play alongside him has been amazing.

"It’s really exciting to call Tiger, Tom, and Kevin teammates. Thanks to TGL, I’ll be able to play with some of the best golfers in the world and bring this unique and exciting format to golf while also finding ways to connect with one of the best golf markets in the country in South Florida."

Kim, from South Korea, is one of the PGA Tour's rising stars. The 21-year-old is No. 23 in the world and has won three times on the PGA Tour along with seven international events.  His win at the 2022 Wyndham Championship made him the second-youngest winner on the PGA Tour since World War II at 20 years, 1 month, 17 days.

"It's unbelievable," Kim said. "To be a part of a team with Tiger as captain, that I've always thought of as my role model and I've looked up to and I still do, to be a part of that group ... it's really cool for me and I'm really excited for what's to come."

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Kisner, 40, has four PGA Tour wins. He most recently played with Woods during the third round of the 2022 Masters.

"TGL is a unique entertainment product with a combination of world-class golf, but also a condensed format in Prime Time TV," Woods told The Post. "With every shot broadcast, a 40-second shot clock and all players mik’ed up in a team dynamic, Kiz will not only be a valuable teammate given his talents on the course but will bring his entertaining personality and style to TGL."

Kisner believes the team has the right mix to have fun in the unique format, but also get serious when titles are on the line.

“While I know we will have a lot of fun as a team with me, Tiger, Max and Tom, I also know when Tiger’s competitive fire kicks in, we are going to be ready to play and win," he said. "This is the perfect team to bring both fun and competition together at the same time. Can’t wait.”  

All six TGL teams have filled their rosters, with the exception of two slots available on the Boston and San Francisco teams. San Francisco's team officially has not been announced, but it will include the remaining players who signed with TGL.

Tom D'Angelo is a senior sports columnist and golf writer for The Palm Beach Post. He can be reached at [email protected].

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2024 PGA Championship odds, field: Surprising PGA picks from top golf model that won 11 majors

Sportsline's proven model simulated the pga championship 2024 10,000 times and revealed its pga golf picks for valhalla golf club.

The second major of the season is right around the corner, with Valhalla Golf Club in Louisville set to host the 2024 PGA Championship starting Thursday, May 16. World No. 1 Scottie Scheffler will aims for his second major victory of the season and the third of his career. He brought home his second Masters title in April, delivering as one of the shortest Masters favorites this century. Scheffler is priced as a short favorite again for the second major of the year and is 4-1 in the 2024 PGA Championship odds. Jon Rahm (9-1), Rory McIlroy (10-1) and Ludvig Aberg (16-1) are next among the 2024 PGA Championship golfers, while defending champion Brooks Koepka (16-1) is also one of the 2024 PGA Championship contenders. Should you target any of them with your 2024 PGA Championship bets?

Before locking in any 2024 PGA Championship picks of your own, entering PGA DFS lineups on sites like DraftKings or FanDuel, or finalizing PGA Championship props and PGA Championship Pick Six entries, be sure to see the 2024 PGA Championship golf predictions and projected leaderboard from the proven computer model at SportsLine .

Our proprietary model, built by DFS pro Mike McClure, has been red-hot since the PGA Tour resumed in June of 2020. In fact, the model is up almost $10,000 on its best bets since the restart, nailing tournament after tournament.

McClure's model correctly predicted Scottie Scheffler would finish on top of the leaderboard at the 2024 Masters, the Arnold Palmer Invitational, and The Players Championship this season. McClure also included Hideki Matsuyama in his best bets to win the 2024 Genesis Invitational. That bet hit at +9000, and for the entire tournament, McClure's best bets returned nearly $1,000.

The model also predicted Jon Rahm would be victorious at the 2023 Sentry Tournament of Champions and The American Express. At the 2023 Masters, the model was all over Rahm's second career major victory heading into the weekend. Rahm was two strokes off the lead heading into the third round, but the model still projected him as the winner. It was the second straight Masters win for the model, which also nailed Scheffler winning in 2022.

In addition, McClure's best bets included Nick Taylor (70-1) winning the 2023 RBC Canadian Open, Jason Day (17-1) winning outright at the 2023 AT&T Byron Nelson, and Rickie Fowler (14-1) finishing on top of the leaderboard at the 2023 Rocket Mortgage Classic.

This same model has also nailed a whopping 11 majors entering the weekend and hit the Masters three straight years. Anyone who has followed it has seen massive returns.

Now with the PGA Championship 2024 field taking shape, SportsLine simulated the tournament 10,000 times, and the results were surprising. Head to SportsLine now to see the projected leaderboard.

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One major surprise the model is calling for at the 2024 PGA Championship: Brooks Koepka, a three-time PGA champion and one of the favorites, stumbles and doesn't even crack the top 10. Koepka has five major tournament wins on his resume and a reputation for elevating his level of play in big events. However, his last two major starts haven't gone well as he was 45th at the Masters, which followed a 64th-place finish at last year's Open Championship. He's failed to shoot par in each of his last seven rounds at major tournaments.

After notching three tournament wins in 2023, including last year's PGA Championship, it has been tough sledding for Koepka in 2024. He has no victories, or even top-fives, and across his six starts, he has three times as many finishes outside the top 25 (three) as he has inside the top 10 (one). He played Valhalla at the 2014 PGA Championship and finished in a tie for 15th place, but that placement ranks just eighth out of his 11 career PGA Championship starts.

Another surprise: Will Zalatoris, a 25-1 longshot, makes a strong run at the title. He's a target for anyone looking for a huge payday. Zalatoris missed all four major championships last season due to a back injury, but that did not slow him down when he returned to major action at the Masters. He finished ninth at Augusta National, which marked his seventh top-10 in his last 10 major appearances.

While he is still seeking his first major victory, he already has multiple runner-up finishes. Zalatoris finished eighth in his first PGA Championship attempt (2021) and followed it up by finishing second in 2022. There are not many golfers who have matched his level of success in majors, making him a valuable longshot to include in your PGA Championship bets, according to the model.  See who else to pick here .

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The model is also targeting three other golfers with odds of 25-1 or longer to make a strong run at the title. Anyone who backs these longshots could hit it big. You can only see the model's picks here .

Who will win the 2024 PGA Championship, and which longshots will stun the golfing world? Check out the PGA Championship 2024 odds below and then visit SportsLine to see the projected PGA Championship leaderboard, all from the model that's nailed 11 golf majors, including the last three Masters .

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Scottie Scheffler 4-1 Jon Rahm 9-1 Rory McIlroy 10-1 Ludvig Aberg 16-1 Brooks Koepka 16-1 Xander Schauffele 18-1 Viktor Hovland 20-1 Patrick Cantlay 20-1 Wyndham Clark 20-1 Cameron Smith 22-1 Joaquin Niemann 22-1 Collin Morikawa 25-1 Sam Burns 25-1 Max Homa 25-1 Matt Fitzpatrick 28-1 Tom Kim 28-1 Jordan Spieth 30-1 Bryson DeChambeau 30-1 Tony Finau 30-1 Dustin Johnson 30-1 Justin Thomas 33-1 Hideki Matsuyama 35-1 Jason Day 35-1 Cameron Young 35-1 Tommy Fleetwood 40-1 Rickie Fowler 45-1 Min Woo Lee 50-1 Sungjae Im 50-1 Shane Lowry 50-1 Tyrrell Hatton 50-1 Brian Harman 55-1 Corey Conners 60-1 Patrick Reed 65-1 Justin Rose 65-1 Russell Henley 65-1 Sahith Theegala 65-1 Keegan Bradley 75-1 Adam Scott 80-1 Talor Gooch 90-1 Gary Woodland 100-1 Kurt Kitayama 100-1 Daniel Berger 100-1 Louis Oosthuizen 125-1 Tiger Woods 125-1 Si Woo Kim 125-1 Keith Mitchell 125-1 Thomas Pieters 125-1 Abraham Ancer 125-1 J.T. Poston 125-1 Sepp Straka 125-1 Mito Pereira 150-1 Harris English 150-1 Phil Mickelson 150-1 Ryan Fox 150-1 Adam Hadwin 150-1 Sergio Garcia 150-1 Seamus Power 175-1 Denny McCarthy 175-1 Robert MacIntyre 175-1 Christiaan Bezuidenhout 175-1 Davis Riley 175-1 Aaron Wise 175-1 Marc Leishman 175-1 Billy Horschel 200-1 Harold Varner III 200-1 Jason Kokrak 200-1 Mackenzie Hughes 225-1 Francisco Molinari 225-1 Joel Dahmen 250-1

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2024 PGA Championship odds, field: Surprising PGA picks from top golf model that won 11 majors

Sportsline's proven model simulated the pga championship 2024 10,000 times and revealed its pga golf picks for valhalla golf club.

The second major of the season is right around the corner, with Valhalla Golf Club in Louisville set to host the 2024 PGA Championship starting Thursday, May 16. World No. 1 Scottie Scheffler will aims for his second major victory of the season and the third of his career. He brought home his second Masters title in April, delivering as one of the shortest Masters favorites this century. Scheffler is priced as a short favorite again for the second major of the year and is 4-1 in the 2024 PGA Championship odds. Jon Rahm (9-1), Rory McIlroy (10-1) and Ludvig Aberg (16-1) are next among the 2024 PGA Championship golfers, while defending champion Brooks Koepka (16-1) is also one of the 2024 PGA Championship contenders. Should you target any of them with your 2024 PGA Championship bets?

Before locking in any 2024 PGA Championship picks of your own, entering PGA DFS lineups on sites like DraftKings or FanDuel, or finalizing PGA Championship props and PGA Championship Pick Six entries, be sure to see the 2024 PGA Championship golf predictions and projected leaderboard from the proven computer model at SportsLine .

Our proprietary model, built by DFS pro Mike McClure, has been red-hot since the PGA Tour resumed in June of 2020. In fact, the model is up almost $10,000 on its best bets since the restart, nailing tournament after tournament.

McClure's model correctly predicted Scottie Scheffler would finish on top of the leaderboard at the 2024 Masters, the Arnold Palmer Invitational, and The Players Championship this season. McClure also included Hideki Matsuyama in his best bets to win the 2024 Genesis Invitational. That bet hit at +9000, and for the entire tournament, McClure's best bets returned nearly $1,000.

The model also predicted Jon Rahm would be victorious at the 2023 Sentry Tournament of Champions and The American Express. At the 2023 Masters, the model was all over Rahm's second career major victory heading into the weekend. Rahm was two strokes off the lead heading into the third round, but the model still projected him as the winner. It was the second straight Masters win for the model, which also nailed Scheffler winning in 2022.

In addition, McClure's best bets included Nick Taylor (70-1) winning the 2023 RBC Canadian Open, Jason Day (17-1) winning outright at the 2023 AT&T Byron Nelson, and Rickie Fowler (14-1) finishing on top of the leaderboard at the 2023 Rocket Mortgage Classic.

This same model has also nailed a whopping 11 majors entering the weekend and hit the Masters three straight years. Anyone who has followed it has seen massive returns.

Now with the PGA Championship 2024 field taking shape, SportsLine simulated the tournament 10,000 times, and the results were surprising. Head to SportsLine now to see the projected leaderboard.

Top 2024 PGA Championship predictions 

One major surprise the model is calling for at the 2024 PGA Championship: Brooks Koepka, a three-time PGA champion and one of the favorites, stumbles and doesn't even crack the top 10. Koepka has five major tournament wins on his resume and a reputation for elevating his level of play in big events. However, his last two major starts haven't gone well as he was 45th at the Masters, which followed a 64th-place finish at last year's Open Championship. He's failed to shoot par in each of his last seven rounds at major tournaments.

After notching three tournament wins in 2023, including last year's PGA Championship, it has been tough sledding for Koepka in 2024. He has no victories, or even top-fives, and across his six starts, he has three times as many finishes outside the top 25 (three) as he has inside the top 10 (one). He played Valhalla at the 2014 PGA Championship and finished in a tie for 15th place, but that placement ranks just eighth out of his 11 career PGA Championship starts.

Another surprise: Will Zalatoris, a 25-1 longshot, makes a strong run at the title. He's a target for anyone looking for a huge payday. Zalatoris missed all four major championships last season due to a back injury, but that did not slow him down when he returned to major action at the Masters. He finished ninth at Augusta National, which marked his seventh top-10 in his last 10 major appearances.

While he is still seeking his first major victory, he already has multiple runner-up finishes. Zalatoris finished eighth in his first PGA Championship attempt (2021) and followed it up by finishing second in 2022. There are not many golfers who have matched his level of success in majors, making him a valuable longshot to include in your PGA Championship bets, according to the model.  See who else to pick here .

How to make 2024 PGA Championship picks

The model is also targeting three other golfers with odds of 25-1 or longer to make a strong run at the title. Anyone who backs these longshots could hit it big. You can only see the model's picks here .

Who will win the 2024 PGA Championship, and which longshots will stun the golfing world? Check out the PGA Championship 2024 odds below and then visit SportsLine to see the projected PGA Championship leaderboard, all from the model that's nailed 11 golf majors, including the last three Masters .

2024 PGA Championship odds, field

Get full 2024 PGA Championship picks, best bets, and predictions here.

Scottie Scheffler 4-1 Jon Rahm 9-1 Rory McIlroy 10-1 Ludvig Aberg 16-1 Brooks Koepka 16-1 Xander Schauffele 18-1 Viktor Hovland 20-1 Patrick Cantlay 20-1 Wyndham Clark 20-1 Cameron Smith 22-1 Joaquin Niemann 22-1 Collin Morikawa 25-1 Sam Burns 25-1 Max Homa 25-1 Matt Fitzpatrick 28-1 Tom Kim 28-1 Jordan Spieth 30-1 Bryson DeChambeau 30-1 Tony Finau 30-1 Dustin Johnson 30-1 Justin Thomas 33-1 Hideki Matsuyama 35-1 Jason Day 35-1 Cameron Young 35-1 Tommy Fleetwood 40-1 Rickie Fowler 45-1 Min Woo Lee 50-1 Sungjae Im 50-1 Shane Lowry 50-1 Tyrrell Hatton 50-1 Brian Harman 55-1 Corey Conners 60-1 Patrick Reed 65-1 Justin Rose 65-1 Russell Henley 65-1 Sahith Theegala 65-1 Keegan Bradley 75-1 Adam Scott 80-1 Talor Gooch 90-1 Gary Woodland 100-1 Kurt Kitayama 100-1 Daniel Berger 100-1 Louis Oosthuizen 125-1 Tiger Woods 125-1 Si Woo Kim 125-1 Keith Mitchell 125-1 Thomas Pieters 125-1 Abraham Ancer 125-1 J.T. Poston 125-1 Sepp Straka 125-1 Mito Pereira 150-1 Harris English 150-1 Phil Mickelson 150-1 Ryan Fox 150-1 Adam Hadwin 150-1 Sergio Garcia 150-1 Seamus Power 175-1 Denny McCarthy 175-1 Robert MacIntyre 175-1 Christiaan Bezuidenhout 175-1 Davis Riley 175-1 Aaron Wise 175-1 Marc Leishman 175-1 Billy Horschel 200-1 Harold Varner III 200-1 Jason Kokrak 200-1 Mackenzie Hughes 225-1 Francisco Molinari 225-1 Joel Dahmen 250-1

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Inside the Field: Wells Fargo Championship

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The PGA TOUR heads to Quail Hollow Club for the Well Fargo Championship, the sixth Signature Event of the year.

The Signature Events bring together the game’s top players, pitting them on historic courses to play for elevated purses and FedExCup points.

A few of the qualifying categories for this year's event include the top 50 in last season’s FedExCup standings, the Aon Next 10 and the Aon Swing 5 (the top points earners not already exempt from the previous four Full-Field events).

Scroll below to see the full field as of Friday, May 3. The field will be finalized at the conclusion of THE CJ CUP Byron Nelson.

Top 50 on prior year's FedExCup

Viktor Hovland Xander Schauffele Wyndham Clark Rory McIlroy Patrick Cantlay Collin Morikawa Tommy Fleetwood Matt Fitzpatrick Sam Burns Max Homa Keegan Bradley Adam Schenk Russell Henley Sepp Straka Rickie Fowler Lucas Glover Tony Finau Si Woo Kim Tom Kim Brian Harman Sungjae Im Nick Taylor Corey Conners Jordan Spieth Jason Day Emiliano Grillo Taylor Moore Sahith Theegala Chris Kirk Denny McCarthy Justin Rose Andrew Putnam Kurt Kitayama Adam Svensson Harris English J.T. Poston Lee Hodges Seamus Power Cameron Young Eric Cole Byeong Hun An Adam Hadwin Tom Hoge Brendon Todd Cam Davis Patrick Rodgers Hideki Matsuyama Mackenzie Hughes

Current-year tournament winners, not including Additional Events

Nick Dunlap Peter Malnati Grayson Murray

Sponsor exemptions

Webb Simpson Gary Woodland

Ludvig Åberg Matthieu Pavon Shane Lowry Will Zalatoris Stephan Jaeger Akshay Bhatia Justin Thomas Jake Knapp Christiaan Bezuidenhout Austin Eckroat

Aon Swing 5 (projected on Friday, May 3 and to be finalized on Monday, May 6)

Billy Horschel Chad Ramey Wesley Bryan Martin Trainer Kevin Tway