If Max Homa picked the marshal as his target, he didn't miss by an inch.
During the first round of the 2025 Masters, Homa hit his tee shot on the par-5 eighth hole left of the fairway. He was forced to hit a punch out beneath trees to position himself back in the fairway, so he lined up and did just that.
Problem was, there was someone in the fairway. A marshal holding a flag.
The par-5 eighth hole goes severely uphill, and the second shot for golfers in the fairway is blind. A marshal will stand with the flag in the fairway notifying those behind the green is not clear, then he vacates the fairway once it's ready for players to hit. Since Homa was offline and not going for the green, he went ahead and hit, and his ball never left the marshal as it darted beneath the trees and into the fairway.
The camera then pans to one further up the fairway, and the ball takes one bounce before launching into the back of the marshal. "Come on, dude," Homa frustratingly said as his ball careened sideways after hitting the marshal.
This was Max Homa on the par 5 8th hole at Augusta today. There’s just so much to unpack here…I can’t stop laughing😭😭 pic.twitter.com/cwv9I4cWrM
— Braiden Turner (@bturner23) April 11, 2025
Definitely a bad break for Homa, who needs some good fortune to go his way this week. He hasn't finished in the top 10 since the Masters last year, and he hasn't made the cut in a full-field event since July.
He made par on the hole, so no harm, no foul. But no doubt a frustrating situation when there is one person in the fairway where you're laying up, and you somehow find a way to hit right into them.
This article originally appeared on Golfweek: Masters 2025: Max Homa frustrated after shot hits marshal in fairway
