Max Homa drops inspirational quote after making cut at Masters, his first in nearly 9 months

Making the chopped astatine the Masters is already a large deal. 

But for Max Homa it was an adjacent bigger woody erstwhile helium made it to the play aft a gritty second-round show Friday.

For Homa, it was his archetypal clip helium had made the chopped astatine a tourney since July 19, 2024, erstwhile helium made it to the play astatine the Open Championship.

"Tough times don’t last, pugnacious radical do," Homa said via PGA Tour aft his round. 

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Max Homa fist-bumps his caddie, Bill Harke, aft finishing his circular connected the 18th greenish during the 2nd circular of the Masters astatine Augusta National Golf Club April 11, 2025.  (Katie Goodale/Imagn Images)

"You're ever trying to larn and evolve. I cognize I'm lone adjacent and whatever, 8 back, but it does consciousness bully to not bushed myself retired here. So, that was nice."

Homa, 34, struggled during the archetypal round, shooting a 2-over-par 74. His 2nd circular was disconnected to an inauspicious commencement erstwhile helium bogeyed the archetypal hole, and helium was successful information of missing yet different cut. 

Despite the bogey connected the archetypal hole, Homa buckled down and did not bogey the remainder of the way, ending with a 2-under-par 70. He is adjacent par done the archetypal 2 days astatine Augusta National. 

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Max Homa lines up a changeable connected the sixth greenish during the 2nd circular of the Masters astatine Augusta National Golf Club April 11, 2025.  (Peter Casey/Imagn Images)

It wasn’t ever beauteous for Homa. He deed conscionable 8 of 14 (57%) fairways and had to bash a batch of scrambling to prevention par.

Homa has played into the play this PGA Tour season, but the 2 events successful which helium did, The Sentry and AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am, did not person cuts. Homa did not scope the play successful immoderate tourney with a chopped line. 

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Max Homa tees disconnected connected No. 4 during the 2nd circular of the Masters astatine Augusta National Golf Club April 11, 2025.  (Grace Smith/Imagn Images)

This is Homa’s sixth vocation commencement astatine the Masters, and, aft a first-round 67 past year, helium finished successful a necktie for 3rd place. Homa volition look to physique upon his affirmative momentum from making the chopped into different top-10 decorativeness this year. 

Homa joined the PGA Tour successful 2014 and has six vocation wins connected tour. His past triumph was the 2023 Farmers Insurance Open. 

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