Max Homa Calling Out POS Gamblers in His DMs is *Chef’s Kiss*

Max Homa had his best week of the season at the John Deere Classic, posting four sub-70 rounds—including a beautiful Thursday 63—that led to a share of fifth. His first top-10 of the year and only second top-25 (Masters, T-12).

Despite the step in the right direction, Max got some pretty brutal messages in his DMs after the tournament from folks who surely bet on him to take home the hardware. Here’s a look at a few he posted to Instagram.

I love that he didn’t block out their names. Those people deserve to get roasted into oblivion. You have to be a real POS to message someone something like that.

But Max said it himself last week, social media is a gross place.

“The reason for that was just the vitriol you read online,” Homa said when asked why he stepped away from social media. “It has become a safe haven for people who are angry themselves. It is quite absurd what people—how comfortable people feel writing awful things. I stepped away a lot also from Instagram, but I feel like that's been a bit less crazy; although still not great, so I take my breaks from that. Yeah, I just—if you wouldn't choose to sit around a table with somebody being that mean, you would always get up if you were there and someone was being rude to you. You would ask them to leave or you would leave."

“Twitter or X is an awful, awful place. It took me a while to catch onto how impactful that can be and how much of a waste of energy. I miss the connection with the fans, but nothing comes without, I mean, just so much hate and anger. There is a lot of love in there, too but unfortunately it really does get overwhelmed with the—you can have one really bad one. I don't know if it's the gambling world or whatnot. I'm happy they can do it but it seems fun as hell in golf, but you get people—people say some bad, bad things. People tell you you should die on the internet.”

And a few days later, someone did exactly that. Just disgusting behavior.

But on the bright side, it was awesome to see Max play some great golf again. He said he found something on the range early in the week and that showed throughout the tournament. Let’s hope we can carry that into his next start and get back in the winner’s circle before year’s end.