After struggling on the back nine Thursday, Max Homa opened on the same stretch in Round 2 of the PGA Championship and got off to a blazing start.
Homa birdied the par-4 10th and par-3 13th before nearly holing his tee shot on the 347-yard, par-4 14th at Quail Hollow Club.
He followed that tap-in eagle with a birdie at the par-5 15th to get to 5 under for the round and 3 under for the championship.
After a pair of pars to start the “Green Mile” (Nos. 16-18), Homa chipped in for birdie at the par-4 18th to turn in 6-under 30.
He entered his second nine at 4 under, just two off the lead. Homa, whose first career PGA Tour win came at Quail Hollow in the the 2019 Wells Fargo (now Truist) Championship, made two birdies and one bogey on the inward half.
That added up to a 7-under 64, Homa’s lowest round on Tour since Aug. 2023 and his best-ever round in a major championship — by three shots.
Homa was tied for third and three back when he signed his card.
