Max Homa will get to play alongside a former school teammate on the Fortinet Championship this week.

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Earlier than he grew to become one of many PGA Tour’s brightest stars, Max Homa was a standout on social media, roasting customers’ swings and responding to consumer inquiries with a endearing humor and self-awareness.

This week, Max Homa enters the PGA Tour’s first occasion of the 2022-23 season because the defending champion, a four-time Tour winner and present World No. 20.

Being on the Silverado Resort and Spa in Napa, Calif., is a homecoming of kinds for the 31-year-old Homa, who performed collegiate golf at UC Berkeley.

And this week, one in all his former school teammates can be within the subject: Michael S. Kim, who earned his means again to a full PGA Tour card through his efficiency on the Korn Ferry Tour final season.

Homa and Kim have been good buddies in school, and Homa proved it by sharing a hilarious anecdote about Kim throughout his press convention on Wednesday.

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“Michael moved to America from Korea when he was 12, so he speaks fluent Korean,” Homa started. “Like I mentioned, I was in his lodge room each evening once we have been on the highway and he’d discuss to his dad and mom and it’s like one in all us speaking to our dad and mom, it was very quick. And clearly I don’t perceive any Korean, it’s fairly sophisticated.

“So he did that and — he’s going to be so mad I’m telling individuals this,” Homa continued with a smile. “He did that and proper after he begins recording one thing on his cellphone and it will be like me saying like, ‘I drove my automobile to the shop’ in Korean. I used to be like, ‘What are you doing,’ and he mentioned, ‘Oh, I’m on this Korean 101 class that I’m not alleged to know, I’m not alleged to be fluent on this.’ I’m like, ‘You might be so scummy,’ but it surely was nice.”

The PGA Tour posted the clip of Homa’s press convention on Twitter, together with a response from Kim, which was as humorous as you’d anticipate.

“That’s my cue out,” Kim mentioned with fun whereas strolling away from the digital camera. “That’s my cue to depart.”

Hey, in case your school buddy can’t bust your chops in a press convention on the PGA Tour, what are we even doing?

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