Homa knows what it's like to go for a hat-trick, or a three-peat as they call it where he's from, having attempted the feat at the Fortinet Championship in September, coming up just shy. Unsurprisingly, arriving as he does in search of a course hat-trick, Fleetwood has just about edged to the top of the betting, despite the fact that, unlike last year, he is not the top-ranked player in the field – a mantle held instead by Homa.Īnd there's another thing that binds them. This week, they share something else: favouritism for the Nedbank Golf Challenge.
Tommy Fleetwood and Max Homa share plenty in common: popular not just because of their achievements on the golf course, but because of how they handle themselves off it seemingly grounded despite their success, perhaps because each has stared into the golfing abyss and refused to be swallowed by it.
