Max Homa Wants His Lick Back

It’s no secret that Max Homa has been struggling on the golf course for over a year. He’s been pretty open about his game’s downturn following a share for the bronze medal at the 2024 Masters, but despite the strenuous trudge, he’s kept working.

At the end of August, Homa posted a position-by-position comparison of his swing. One from months earlier and a current look.

I’m no Top 100 coach or anything, but I know enough about the golf swing to recognize when someone’s stuck and when someone’s back in the slot. That collection of bottom pictures is a fader’s dream—as someone who’s working on the same fix, I can’t tell you how good that progress is.

And since that Instagram post, Homa has seen some success during the FedExCup Fall. He tied for 19th at the Procore, for 18th at the Sanderson Farms, for 40th in Japan, and for 9th at the Bank of Utah Championship. Not bad for a guy who had one top-10 finish in 20 starts last season.

Homa is staying at home the rest of the year, choosing to rest, recover, and prepare for the 2026 campaign. And judging by his IG post from Sunday, Homa wants his lick back.

“2025 season is a wrap for me. Disappointing season,” Homa wrote. “It’s not a true failure if u learn something from it, and boy did I learn a lot this year. Looking forward to getting to work and making ‘26 my female dog.”

I assume I don’t have to teach you the word for a female dog.

As for that message, I believe him. As an athlete, as a sports fan, as an LA kid who loved Kobe Bryant, Homa has that dawg in him—and he knows it.

If anyone can get back to the top of the world after this kind of fall, it’s Max.

His return to the winner’s circle is one of my 2026 locks. Book it.