Max Homa isn’t the largest professional golfer and for those who didn’t know higher you would possibly suppose he’d cross for an accountant enjoying within the pro-am. In brief, his isn’t the primary title that pops to thoughts when the PGA Tour’s longest drivers are talked about.
In spite of everything, he averaged “simply” 305 yards off the tee throughout the 2022-23 season, which ranked 62nd on Tour. He’s barely higher than common, a great 21 yards behind Rory McIlroy league-leading common of 326 yards per blast.
However throughout Saturday’s third spherical of The Sentry in Hawaii, Homa staked his declare to being the Tour’s largest bopper, smoking a tape-measure drive on the par-4 525-yard seventh gap at Kapalua Resort’s Plantation Course that measured an eye-popping 477 yards. It’s the longest recorded drive on the Tour within the ShotLink Period (since 2003).
Earlier than the calls that this needs to be entered into proof as proof the ball goes too far and should be rolled again as quickly as humanly attainable (comparable to earlier than Sunday’s closing spherical in Maui), it needs to be famous that the seventh gap is a downhill, sharp dogleg proper and it performed downwind on Saturday. The locals name Plantation “The Planet” and the professionals sometimes hit it out of this world at The Sentry. In 2023, 89 of the 121 drives of 400+ yards on the PGA Tour had been launched right here.
Thanks partly to a tailwind, Homa’s blast is within the document books. 4. Hundred. Seventy-Seven. Yards. Wind-aided, downhill, rolls ceaselessly on a sloping fairway, performs shorter than it’s posted yardage, certain, however 477 remains to be 477 and we bow to all the way down to Homa, who delivered fairly the poke.
See that little purple dot?
That is @Maxhoma’s tee shot on a 525-yard par-4!!!
477 yards!!!!!
LOVE Kapalua pic.twitter.com/wYEl2sZMyB
— Jack Hirsh (@JR_HIRSHey) January 6, 2024
