Titleist TS4 Driver Powers Homa to Long Drive Win

Fresh off his first career PGA Tour win at the Wells Fargo Championship earlier this month, Max Homa already has another accomplishment to add to his mantle: 2019 PGA Championship Long Drive Winner.

We have a new Long Drive leader! @maxhoma23 sends this one 318 yards. 💥#PGAChamp pic.twitter.com/TaBSH3VbxT

— PGA Championship (@PGAChampionship) May 14, 2019

The long drive competition is an annual Tuesday tradition at the PGA Championship, which awards the winner a gold money clip and a donation of $25,000 to the charity of their choice.  While the 2019 PGA Championship is stacked with plenty of guys who bomb it off the tee, including Rory McIlroy, Tony Finau, Brooks Koepka, Dustin Johnson, and (of course) Tiger Woods, Homa, who’s never played in a major championship as a professional, decided to show the field what the new guy on the block is capable of.

Equipped with the new Titleist TS4 driver, Homa bombed a 318-yard drive on Bethpage Black’s par-4 16th hole, 10 yards farther than a trio of runners-up that included Shane Lowry, Patrick Reed, and Casey Russell.

Fact: I had never won a long drive contest at the PGA Championship until I switched to the new TS4 https://t.co/tsrtDOO8en

— max homa (@maxhoma23) May 15, 2019

Clearly, the TS4 is packing some serious heat, as it was able to provide Homa with enough power to keep him ahead of Happy Gilmore impersonator and 2008 PGA Champion Padraig Harrington.

How’d he do, @AdamSandler? 😂#PGAChamp @padraig_h pic.twitter.com/WALntQIj9g

— PGA Championship (@PGAChampionship) May 14, 2019