Jason Day told Max Homa something ‘really interesting’ about Tiger Woods at the Masters earlier this year
Max Homa may have felt like he had one of the best draws at Augusta National when he was grouped with Tiger Woods and Jason Day for the opening two rounds of The Masters earlier this year.
While Tiger Woods looks to be coming towards the end of his career, few players have created more magical moments amidst the Georgia pines than the 15-time major champion. Every step Woods takes seems to see him return to a part of the course where he has produced a moment of sheer brilliance.
And it appears that Woods still manages to blow his peers away on the rare occasions he does appear in the game’s biggest events.
Woods only made one cut in the majors in 2024, with that coming at The Masters, which was particularly impressive given how the schedule was moved around because of the weather.
Max Homa reveals what Jason Day said about Tiger Woods at The Masters
Of course, it feels as though golf has its next superhuman superstar in Scottie Scheffler, with the world number one being the one to triumph at Augusta National.
Speaking on No Laying Up Podcast, Max about Scheffler’s ability to focus on the process rather than results, and he noted how he would put him alongside Woods for his approach to the game.
“It’s his greatest skill [focusing on the process]. I know he’s the best at hitting, it’s his greatest skill,” Homa said.
“ said something really interesting playing with Tiger Thursday at Augusta. Tiger hit a bad drive on 13, and it’s windy. I mean, Tiger’s the best iron player I’ve ever seen, Scottie’s up there. Tiger, I don’t know how to explain it, and maybe it’s just our fondness of him, but he works it a little bit different, it’s just really fascinating to watch him hit golf shots.
“And he hit a bad drive on 13, it’s our last hole, the sun’s going down, it’s windy and he had to lay up on 13 way back, he had a six iron in maybe to the right pin. And it’s not like he hit it close, it was just a really hard golf shot, he hit it right to the middle of the green, below the hole, 30 feet or so. And I walked with Jason, and Jason goes, ‘it’s just amazing to me how committed he is to hitting the golf shot’, because your brain gets fogged with a lot of what could happen, good and bad.
“And it’s just like those two guys, from what I hear in interviews and what I’ve seen with Tiger, they just pick the shot and they are absolutely into that, and that is such a hard thing to do over and over again. It’s as great a skill as whatever Scottie is the best at.”
Class is definitely permanent
Obviously, Woods is nowhere near being the player he was when he was winning the majority of his majors, and he is highly unlikely to win another major while he is playing so rarely.
But it says everything about how great so much of his game remains that he is able to stun his playing partners even when he has been decimated by injuries down the years.
And it also says a lot about how good Scheffler truly is that his name is coming up more and more alongside Tiger Woods. He still needs to prove that he can sustain this over a much longer period, but there is no question that golf has not seen anyone prove to be as dominant since Woods was at the top of the game.