“The Ultimate Golfer Should Be Able…”- Days After Rory McIlroy’s Frustrating Statements, Max Homa Shares a Contradictory Statement Accepting ‘Variety’

It is indeed true that every golfer has their own perception of certain aspects of the game, such as golf courses, golf equipment, weather, and so on! These perceptions might be poles apart or just be the same. Often, the golfer’s perceptions are like the two sides of a coin! And most recently, sitting on the two opposite ends are Max Homa and Rory McIlroy.

As this week’s PGA Tour event at Detroit Golf Club fast approaches, the two golfers’ contrasting views have come to light. And what are they about? Well, none other than the golf courses these pros play at!

Max Homa opposes Rory McIlroy with his thoughts on low-scoring golf courses 

Just last weekend, the golfers were at TPC River Highlands for the Travelers Championship, and everybody got to experience a flurry of low scores. Not happy with how easy the golf course was for the competing players, the Northern Irishman called Connecticut’s course “obsolete” and “soft.”

But as Homa buckles himself to compete at the $8.8 million event, he has expressed his thoughts about the low-scoring golf courses, and they are not quite synchronized with McIlroy’s. During his pre-tournament press conference, the funny golfer was asked what he thought of the 4-time major champion’s thoughts and what his thoughts were about the tournaments where the scores went low. He said that it is completely okay to play at many different golf courses and added that “variety is good.”

He also shared how weather plays a significant role in deciding the difficulty level of a golf course. “I played here when it’s firm, it still gets to be pretty low scores because it plays shorter. But I mean, you can’t really do much about this. This week. It’s rained a ton. And I don’t really know how you would fix that.” 

The golfer also discussed how there have been different events, such as Charles Schwab and Rivera, and the events are very different from each other. At Charles Schwab, nine-under was kind of the best score, and it was during that time of year when it didn’t rain and a golfer could really “bake it out”. But at other events, such as those played at the Riviera, it was tougher!

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Homa shared that it was important that the Tour have events where a golfer has the opportunity to show everyone that he can go low! Homa’s final thoughts: “I think that the ultimate, greatest golfer or golfers should be able to do all of those things.”

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But who is the “greatest golfer” who is able to do all of the things that the 6-time PGA Tour winner mentioned? Well, he had a name picked out too!

Homa picks out a two-time major winner as the greatest golfer

While discussing how a good and a great golfer should be able to play at all kinds of courses, Homa titled Justin Thomas as the greatest golfer, who can shine on all the different greens. “And I find that Justin can do all those things. Justin Thomas, everybody, could do all of those things!”

According to the 32-year-old, it is important for every golfer to be able to compete with the same diligence and determination on ridiculously tough greens as on ridiculously easy greens. Especially at the tough ones, the golfer has to prove that they can shoot 10 under and just show how skillful they are. And as per him, JT emulated just that!

What are your thoughts about McIlroy’s and Homa’s contrasting viewpoints about having a variety of golf courses? Tell us in the comments below!

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