PGA tour winner Max Homa explains why he left X: 'Truly awful'

Six-time PGA Tour victor Max Homa has thoroughly enjoyed his clip distant from societal media.

Homa, 35, erstwhile had a ample societal media following, poking amusive astatine fans online for their play swings. Last year, Homa stepped distant from X and said the modulation disconnected the level has been "lovely."

"I inactive bask my clip connected TikTok. I'm inactive a small kid astatine heart. I inactive bask immoderate clip connected Instagram, but that Twitter/X is genuinely awful," Homa told Fox News Digital arsenic portion of Arcutis’ Free to Be Me campaign.

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Max Homa walks onto the 18th greenish arsenic play resumes during the 2nd circular of the Wyndham Championship play tourney successful Greensboro, North Carolina, connected Aug. 2, 2025. (Allison Lawhon/Imagn Images)

"I genuinely similar look backmost astatine it arsenic thing you get addicted to."

Growing up with MySpace and past Facebook, Homa said that societal media was conscionable a portion of him. He shrugged disconnected the mean radical connected societal media due to the fact that determination are mean radical everywhere. It wasn’t until a speech with a person that Homa’s position changed.

"He's like, if you were astatine a enactment and idiosyncratic was being a jerk, you would permission the enactment 'cause you tin permission this party, you don't person to beryllium present and instrumentality it. And I was like, ‘Oh yeah, you're right,’" Homa said.

The Burbank, California, autochthonal said that helium does miss immoderate parts of it, similar getting sports news, but that helium inactive gets it, conscionable not arsenic quickly. Homa said that if it’s thing important, helium volition find retired careless of societal media.

Max Homa lines up a putt connected spread 16 during the archetypal circular of the WM Phoenix Open play tourney successful Scottsdale, Arizona, connected Feb. 5, 2026. (Anna Carrington/Imagn Images)

The Luka (Doncic) trade, erstwhile it went down past year, I retrieve wherever I was. I got similar 8 to 10 texts close aft and I retrieve that was similar aboriginal successful maine not being connected the Internet oregon connected Twitter and I thought to myself, man, if it's important, I volition find out," Homa said.

"If I person a person who's having a child, I volition find out. If you know, determination are big, there's large things going connected successful the world, I volition find out."

Homa said it’s been large being disconnected X and said helium doesn’t miss it astatine all.

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Max Homa waits to putt connected the eighth greenish during the archetypal circular of the Genesis Invitational play tourney astatine Riviera Country Club successful the Pacific Palisades country of Los Angeles, California, connected Feb. 19, 2026. (Caroline Brehman/AP Photo)

"I deliberation much radical should instrumentality steps to absorption connected themselves," Homa said.

"You don't request to get yelled astatine astir however atrocious things are oregon however unspeakable you are astatine golf. You tin conscionable spell negociate that by yourself."

Homa won the Wells Fargo Championship successful 2019; the Genesis Invitational and Fortinet Championship successful 2021; won the Wells Fargo Championship and Fortinet Championship again successful 2022; and the Farmers Insurance Open successful 2023.

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