Max Homa opened his Presidents Cup singles match in opposition to Mackenzie Hughes with a bang, holing out for eagle from 102 yards out on the par-4 1st. He rapidly took a 1 up lead.
Homa wasted no time grabbing momentum within the anchor match. Nonetheless, it doesn’t appear that the golf world will see his and assistant captain Kevin Kisner’s guess come to fruition.
It began on the Solheim Cup when Kisner responded to Homa on X that if he “hooped one,” he would take his shirt off at Royal Montreal this week. Within the days main as much as the Presidents Cup, this wager got here up once more and Kisner nonetheless went together with it.
Homa delivered on his facet of the deal when he made that unbelievable shot on the primary gap. He was all enterprise and didn’t even have fun.
But, the group and followers didn’t overlook about this wager, together with NBC on-course reporter Smylie Kaufman, who caught up with Kisner after Homa’s massive second.
“Motivation is a tremendous factor, and I feel Max actually took it to coronary heart,” Kisner mentioned to Kaufman.
“Been with him for 2 matches, and he doesn’t make one, and I’m going see him off the primary tee, and he hoops it. I feel he has been yelling at each captain he’s seen since as a result of I haven’t seen him, saying, ‘The place’s Kiz?’ So I’m hiding over right here on the again 9.”
Perhaps Kisner will go “tarps off” on the after-party.
However, Kisner seemingly thought he would get out of this guess, on condition that Homa and Brian Harman went 0-2-0 of their two foursome matches. However Homa got here up clutch on Sunday, and now {the golfing} world awaits to see if Kisner pays his dues.
Homa’s recreation has not been horrible within the two matches, although. The 33-year-old has gained 2.98 strokes approaching the inexperienced and three.64 strokes from tee to inexperienced, per DataGolf.
U.S. Captain Jim Furyk seemingly stored these two collectively due to their success in Rome on the 2023 Ryder Cup. They went 2-1-0 collectively.
The duo gained the one Saturday morning foursomes match, 4 & 2, over Shane Lowry and Sepp Straka, and adopted that up with a day win, 2 & 1, over Tommy Fleetwood and Nicolai Højgaard.
Sadly, their spark died in Rome. It didn’t comply with them to Canada.
Regardless, Homa is off to a scorching begin in his singles match as he appears to get at the very least one level on the board for Staff USA. He’s additionally on the hunt for Kisner, who’s avoiding that meet-up in any respect prices.
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