Volatility to the Max

PONTE VEDRA BEACH, Fla. – If you’re playing well, you can make a lot of birdies around TPC Sawgrass. But if you start to hit it off line, bogeys compound.

Max Homa and Max Greyserman saw a whole lot of both during the opening round of THE PLAYERS Championship on Thursday.

Greyserman, starting on No. 1, made birdies on five of his first seven holes and made the turn with a 5-under 31. But the back was a different story. On his way back to the clubhouse, he bogeyed 10, 11, and 12, doubled 13 and 15, and stuck it to a few feet on the iconic 17th to finish the day with a 1-over 73.

Truly psycho behavior (shoutout Shane Bacon).

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As for Homa, his round was an absolute roller coaster.

He dunked his second shot of the day at No. 10 for a hole-out eagle. Then he birdied the par-5 11th, making him 3 under through two. But after a double at 12, a bogey at 14, and another double on 15, Homa was 2 over when he made the turn.

After another square at No. 1, Homa birdied Nos. 2, 5, 6, 7, and 8 before a three-putt bogey at the par-5 ninth. All in all, it added up to a 1-under 71.

Again, truly psycho behavior.

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“I think the front is significantly easier in that wind,” Homa said after signing his card. “You get to play kind of in the tunnels a little bit more. I've been playing really well, so it was very frustrating how erratic it was. But it also made it somewhat easier to know that if you just kept swinging, it would go the right place, but it was one of the weirder days I've ever had.”

With the wild weather we’ve gotten at Sawgrass on Thursday, it’s only right that some of the scorecards are just as nuts.