Max Homa makes comment about Scottie Scheffler’s golf swing after his brilliant round on day two at the PGA Championship

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Max Homa enjoyed a superb second round at the PGA Championship, carding a seven-under 64 to soar up the leaderboard.

Homa wants his hard work to pay off, with the 34-year-old looking for a seventh career win on the PGA Tour this week.

And Homa now finds himself in contention at the PGA Championship, entering the weekend on five-under.

His fantastic second round followed an opening round 73 at Quail Hollow, host of the second major championship of 2025.

Homa has already made 11 appearances this season before this, but the American is still searching for a first top 10 finish.

Max Homa shares verdict on Scottie Scheffler’s golf swing after PGA Championship round two

He spoke candidly about his scores after his second round at the PGA Championship, having been told he’s one of the better explainers of things in golf.

But when asked if it is hard to explain that his scores aren’t matching his feels or the feels with his coach are not matching what he’s seeing, he said: “Yeah, a lot of it has been.

“Especially with my wife, she’ll ask me on days at home, like how was today? I’ll say great, and we’ll leave the next day and shoot a zillion. She doesn’t get it.

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“It’s hard to explain because I don’t… I can give you the technical version of all of it, but at the end of the day, it is odd.

“I’ll play some really good practice rounds. Waste Management in particular was probably the best I’ve ever driven the ball in my life, and even in the first round on Thursday, I think I shot 6- or 7-over.

“It’s just a hard game. I heard Matt Fitzpatrick was doing an interview, and he explained it. The week he’s driven the ball well, it seemed like he’s putted awful or he hit his irons awful.

“And the weeks he’s ironed it great or putted great, he’s driven it awful. It is hard to explain. The technical is that it just gets faster when you play.

“The positions I’ve been in and the club being behind me, I can figure it out here and there and get into grooves, and if a feel gets going, I can repeat it a lot.

“But you start getting nervous, trees on the left, trees on the right, water, whatever, certain winds, it just… it messes with all… you don’t want a lot of timing in your golf swing.

“People wonder why Scottie [Scheffler] is so amazing. He doesn’t have a lot of timing. He’s incredibly athletic and aware of where the golf club is, and I have not been.

“So when you get under stress and things, it just doesn’t become as easy as… I call it field practice when you’re on a range where you hit a bough and rake another one over and just try to time it little better.

“It has been hard to explain, but at the end of the day, there’s also been bad days at home. So it’s not like it’s completely foreign when I show up to a golf tournament. Didn’t feel mental.

“It just was a little bit of mental with a lack of confidence mixed with a golf swing that wasn’t super repeatable.”

Max Homa explains why he is so ‘transparent’ about his golfing game

Homa has certainly been all change of late, having split with longtime caddie Joe Greiner before The Masters.

He now has Bill Harke on the bag, while the 34-year-old has John Scott Rattan as his current swing coach.

Scheffler is, of course, the current benchmark on the PGA Tour, occupying number one spot in the world rankings.

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He carded an opening round two-under 69 at Quail Hollow, entering the major on the back of his success at The CJ Cup Byron Nelson.

It represented a first win of the season for Scheffler and a 14th win on the PGA Tour, with Homa having last won at the 2023 Farmers Insurance Open.

Tasked with further discussing his transparent approach, Homa shared whether his openness helps him or not, saying: “No, it probably doesn’t help me at all if I’m being honest.

“I don’t know, I grew up a fan of sports, as so many are, and I always found it really… like interviews and things to be so thought-provoking as a fan to get a little insight.

“Like I said, we are entertainers, and without the fans, we would be just playing golf with the buddies, with some buddies.

“Yeah, I just try to be myself. Yeah, sometimes I wish I would probably keep some things in, but at the end of the day, we owe a lot to them. It’s not so hard to be transparent. It doesn’t hurt me in any way.”