Homa was born in Burbank, California on November 19, 1990.[2][3] He is Jewish, and attended six years of Hebrew school and had a bar mitzvah, but has stated he is not religious. He said in 2018: "The most Jewish I’ve ever felt came after looking at a home with extravagant Christmas lights and immediately thinking 'that electric bill must be brutal'."[4][5] In November 2019, he married Lacey Croom. The couple live in Scottsdale, Arizona and had a son in October 2022.[6][7][8]
He then played college golf at University of California, Berkeley on scholarship, earning a degree in Consumer Behavior.[11][12][3][10] There, as a junior in 2011-12 Homa was a third-team PING Division I All-American and second-team All-Pac-12 and PING Division I All-West Region.[10] As a senior in 2012-13 he was ranked No. 19 nationally by Golfweek (5/19) and No. 22 according by Golfstat (5/21), was first-team All-Pac-12, ranked No. 17 on the final Palmer Cup Ranking, and won the Pac-12 Championship with an opening-round nine-under par 61 breaking the course record at the North Course at Los Angeles Country Club and tying for the lowest round posted in the U.S.[10] He was named a first-team All-American and to the All-Nicklaus Team by the Golf Coaches Association of America.[13]
Amateur career
In 2008, Homa was selected to represent Southern California on the Junior America's Cup team.[10] In 2009, he won the Ventura County Junior Golf Association at River Ridge in Oxnard (72-73=145).[10]
In 2010, he reached the quarterfinals of the U.S. Amateur before losing to reigning champion and Cal teammate An Byeong-hun.[10] Homa ended the year ranked 4th in California, 33rd in the U.S., and 78th in world according to amateurgolf.com.[10]
In 2011, Homa won the amateurgolf.com Silicon Valley Amateur (63-70=133).[10] He ended the year ranked 8th in California, 36th in the U.S., and 89th in the world according to amateurgolf.com.[10] In 2012, he ended the year ranked 5th in California, 18th in the U.S., and 50th in the world according to amateurgolf.com.[10]
In October 2013, Homa finished T-9 at the Frys.com Open, his first PGA Tour event as a pro.[16] In December 2013, he tied for 6th place in the Web.com Tour qualifying school. In May 2014, he earned his first professional win at the Web.com Tour's BMW Charity Pro-Am, defeating fellow rookie Jonathan Randolph by one stroke, earning $117,000.[17][18] He finished 17th on the Web.com Tour regular-season money list, to earn his PGA Tour card for the 2014–15 season.[18]
In the 2015 PGA Tour season, Homa entered 27 events. He made 12 cuts and won $380,339. He finished 163rd in the FedEx Cup standings and lost his tour card.[15] In the 2016 Web.com Tour season, Homa won the Rust-Oleum Championship in Ivanhoe, Illinois, coming from seven shots back, and ultimately regained his PGA Tour Card for the 2016–17 season.[18]
In the 2017 PGA Tour season, Homa made only two cuts in 17 events and lost his card.[18] That year he made just $18,008.[15] In 2017 he tweeted: "Had a few caddies hit me up recently hoping to team up. They heard they usually get weekends off which is apparently a great selling point."[4]
In September 2022, he successfully defended the Fortinet Championship, chipping-in for a birdie on the final hole to beat Danny Willett by one stroke.[25] He was selected to play on the U.S. team in the 2022 Presidents Cup; he won all four of the matches he played.[26]
In January 2024, Homa hit a 477-yard drive during the third round of The Sentry, the longest drive in the PGA Tour's ShotLink era (since 2003).[29] In April 2024, Homa tied for third place in the 2024 Masters Tournament at −4, winning $1,040,000 and marking the first top-5 finish in a major of his career.[30]
NT = No tournament
"T" = Tied
QF, R16, R32, R64 = Round in which player lost in match play
Note that the Championship and Invitational were discontinued from 2022. The Champions was discontinued from 2023.