{"id":437241,"date":"2025-10-27T21:03:53","date_gmt":"2025-10-27T21:03:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/golf\/?p=437241"},"modified":"2025-10-27T21:03:53","modified_gmt":"2025-10-27T21:03:53","slug":"max-homa-seen-with-limp-in-utah","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/golf\/max-homa-seen-with-limp-in-utah\/","title":{"rendered":"Max Homa Seen With Limp In Utah"},"content":{"rendered":"

Although not a part of the PGA Tour regular season, the Bank of Utah Championship saw quite a bit.\u00a0 The star rookie of 2025, Aldrich Potgieter, had to pull out due to illness<\/a> after the first round, as well as two others.\u00a0 In this fall tournament, fans took note of one player’s limp, as well as the medical attention he was getting.\u00a0 It seems that Max Homa was powering his way through an injury during the tournament.<\/span><\/p>\n

Max Homa In Utah<\/span><\/h2>\n

During the Bank of Utah Championship, Max Homa was actually doing quite well for himself.\u00a0 During the second round, he went bogey-free and scored a 66.\u00a0 He easily, but painfully, slid his way into the third and fourth rounds and eventually found himself T9 for the tournament.\u00a0 This is on top of him having a bit of a comeback for the year since the John Deere Classic in July.\u00a0 However, according to him, this was all with the same injury that is plaguing him right now.<\/span><\/p>\n

The Injury<\/span><\/h2>\n

During the Bank of Utah Championship, Max Homa was seen in visible discomfort.\u00a0 At one point, when making his way down a slope, he didn\u2019t limp but hopped down on one leg.\u00a0 He avoided using the leg at all.\u00a0 In between holes, he was found getting some first aid when his injury was visibly acting up.\u00a0 What is this injury?\u00a0 According to Homa, it is a bone spur, and one that he has had for some time now.\u00a0 Homa explained in an interview after the second round<\/a>:\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

“I’ve had it for a little while. I had planned on getting it taken out when we have a little bit of time off, so it was just kind of ironic,\u201d Homa Said.\u00a0 \u201cIt almost never gets inflamed, but I think this place is pretty hard to walk.\u00a0 Walking down just a small hill on 12, like I didn’t feel anything, but as we were walking down the fairway on 12, I could feel it getting swollen. Then, when we were done on 12, it was very, very tender.\u00a0 Then I don’t know, just not a good golf course to walk. Walking uphill is really hard because I can’t flex it, so that sucked.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Strangely enough, Homa said in the same interview that this injury helps him.\u00a0 He explained this by saying that his thought process wasn\u2019t on hitting the perfect shot, but just getting it to the hole as quickly as possible.\u00a0 It is far from the best strategy, but it worked out really well for him in the second round.\u00a0 Although his pediatrician may have some concerns about that.<\/span><\/p>\n

Homa And His Injury<\/span><\/h2>\n

As Max Homa said, he plans to address his injury in the near future, and hopefully, it will come sooner rather than later.\u00a0 The necessary attention shouldn\u2019t bench him for a whole season, like it did with Tiger Woods<\/a>.\u00a0 It will put a damper on his game.\u00a0 If this tournament was anything to go by, it looks to be getting worse.\u00a0 Either way, Homa is well aware of the issue, and now the audience is, and is wishing him luck in finding treatment and eventual recovery.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Main Photo Credit:\u00a0 \u00a9 Lauren Witte\/Clarion Ledger \/ USA TODAY NETWORK via Imagn Images<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Although not a part of the PGA Tour regular season, the Bank of Utah Championship saw quite a bit.\u00a0 The star rookie of 2025, Aldrich Potgieter, had to pull out due to illness after the first round, as well as two others.\u00a0 In this fall tournament, fans took note of one player’s limp, as well […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5429,"featured_media":437242,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"no","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[15,246,19],"tags":[159],"class_list":["post-437241","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-golf","category-golf-news","category-pga","tag-max-homa"],"modified_by":"Taylor Craig","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/437241","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5429"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=437241"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/437241\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":437247,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/437241\/revisions\/437247"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/437242"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=437241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=437241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=437241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}