The Truist Championship is being played at Philadelphia Cricket Club this week, and Max Homa has delivered his verdict on the A. W. Tillinghast gem after Rory McIlroy shared his opinion earlier in the week.
Homa has desperately been trying to rediscover his best form recently, whilst McIlroy has been performing exceptionally well, with three wins to his name already.
It wasn’t long ago when Homa described McIlroy’s driving as ‘outrageous’, and that length off the tee will stand him in good stead at the Truist Championship this week.
McIlroy told reporters how he will attack Philadelphia Cricket Club with his driver this week.
He somewhat amusingly suggested that he will be able to carry all of the fairway bunkers that are situated at around 320 yards from the tee.
Homa obviously won’t be able to do that, so what does he think about the set-up for the Truist Championship?
Max Homa gives opinion on the Truist Championship course after Rory McIlroy’s comments
Homa will be looking to build on his encouraging performance at The Masters last month with a solid showing in Philadelphia this week.
The 34-year-old American was speaking on Sirius XM PGA Tour radio about the Truist Championship and the Philadelphia Cricket Club layout.
And Homa responded when asked to give his verdict on the golf course.
He said, “I just wish, more courses just got built like this.
“We are just in such a weird time when you see these new courses pop up and it’s just get as much land as you can, make the holes as long as possible. Big, flat greens, big fairways.
“This is how it’s going to be. I mean, or how it’s supposed to be.
“I think with it being soft, we might beat it up a little bit, but I don’t think that takes away from what the course is.
“If you grew this rough up thick and cut the fairways in a little bit, it would play a lot like a Merion that was an even par US Open, so I love this place.”
Max Homa on the two issues that he’s struggling with
Back at The Masters in April, Homa explained where he was going wrong.
He said, “I have two main issues right now. They don’t show up much on the range because you don’t react to… 9 is a good example. There are trees down the left. I have to feel like I’m turning and going like… staying in posture and going left. The problem is my brain just hasn’t fully clicked in, but it feels like I’m going to hit it left, so I do the opposite.
“And then the second issue is my club-face gets open. I focused the whole back nine on keeping the club-face shut so if I did make a mistake, like on 17 wasn’t a great swing, to answer your question feels really behind me, but went in the fairway because the face can match.
“So 9 is when both things don’t happen. It’s easy on the range for me. It’s very hard out here. Wind, you’re uncertain. Commitment is probably the most important thing for me. It’s getting a lot better. I went through my round. Hit a lot more great shots than not, so I’m just trying to keep getting a little bit better.”
Homa clearly needs to find a way to get around the golf course and shoot some good scores.
That’s always hard to do when you’ve made swing changes, and it remains to be seen whether or not he is able to rediscover his best form.
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