Max Homa

About

John Maxwell Homa (born November 19, 1990) is an American professional golfer. During his amateur career at the University of California, Berkeley, he won both the individual Pac-12 Men’s Golf Championship and NCAA Division I Men’s Golf Championship in 2013. He turned professional later that year, and he has since won six times on the PGA Tour. He reached the top five in the Official World Golf Ranking in 2023.

Homa was born in Burbank, California, on November 19, 1990. He is Jewish, and attended six years of Hebrew school and had a bar mitzvah, but has stated he is not religious. He said in 2018: “The most Jewish I’ve ever felt came after looking at a home with extravagant Christmas lights and immediately thinking ‘that electric bill must be brutal’.”

Homa attended Valencia High School in the Santa Clarita Valley. There, he was a four-time first-team All-Foothill League selection, and 2009 Foothill League MVP, graduating in 2009.
He then played college golf at University of California, Berkeley, on scholarship, earning a degree in Consumer Behavior. There, as a junior in 2011-12 Homa was a third-team PING Division I All-American and second-team…