Real talk, sports are the best.
I can and do watch them almost exclusively on TV, and are a large reason why I stuck it out with Comcast all the way until 2022 when I “cut the cord” and flipped my allegiances to the bastion of streaming services. Saving little money now that I need multiple streaming services and on top of that, I have to toggle all these apps in order to watch what I want but hey! This is better right?
Sorry, I know this is not a cable blog. This is a blog about how I believe that being a professional athlete is about as peak as you can feel as a human.
I’m writing this after a story I saw come out over the last few days about a professional golf swing critic who moonlights as a PGA pro, Max Homa.
This man is at the top of his game arguably in the past year or so: last season winning the Fortinet and Wells Fargo tournaments along with 3 other top 10 finishes, including a top 5 finish at the Memorial and a top 5 finish at the Tour Championship. How is he doing this year? How about defending his crown at Fortinet, a top 3 finish at the Sentry Tournament of Champions a couple of months after that, and then winning the Farmer’s Insurance open the next week? And this is only 3 months into the current season!
That means he’s basically already made half of the money he won last season and they’ve still got 8 months to go… But it’s not all about the money to Max, no. Having just notched his 6th win on the Tour, a new father, and multi-millionaire with a hat tan that would make Stuart Cink proud. He’s still taking the time to slow down and really enjoy this run he is on.
Now, what would most golfers do after a big win? Celebrate a bit with some friends perhaps? Buy yourself something nice? No, not Max. Max must have liked the way he was swinging the sticks last week because he followed it up by playing in a Skins tournament at the local Muni club where he lives… and winning the damn thing.
What a life, to be able to pick up after another win, head home to your wife and child. Wake up the next day feeling good enough to go and get another dub before TPC Scottsdale in a couple of weeks. I can only imagine Max is eyeballing that one hard being that he lives out there and its the biggest party in golf that also happens to fall on Super Bowl week this year.
Let’s be real here, being a peak athlete in your sport of choice and then being able to just go ape shit in a public game/tournament MUST be one of the best parts of being a a professional athlete. I instantly think about Jayson Werth hitting absolute moonshots in beer league baseball.
And apparently bowling bad boy Pete Weber still bowls in a local league with friends and dominates. That must absolutely rule. Oh, and by the time you get to the retirement home? FORGET ABOUT IT. Those geezers don’t stand a chance. You will be king of the senior home.
Apparently this skins game that Max Homa won though has a history of really good golfers in it and even pro names like Pat Perez and Joel Dahmen. I mean, he barely won by 1 stroke so, stiff competition but, no chance for an ELITE PROFESSIONAL such as Max.
Kudos to Max, I love to root for the guy and pick him in almost all of my latest golf pools for the major tournaments, my team names? The HOMAsexuals. Picture for proof:
And I have won money in both of them so you bet I will continue to ride that horse in the pools moving forward. I probably won’t get him as a wild card pick anymore because he’s on such a heater but, that’s still worth the pick.
HOMAsexual 4 Lyfe.
P.S. My dad was a professional baseball player and played college ball at FSU so he got a taste of it by getting the chance to play professional slow pitch softball and eventually beer league softball. I can only imagine how much fun he had getting to chase that dream and I know he is hard on himself sometimes for not getting as far as he wanted but, he got drafted. He did he thing. And I think that’s the coolest thing ever. Here is one of my dad’s cards on eBay just for fun:
Goosing with G 
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