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Max Homa Makes Dramatic Charge Up the Leaderboard at The Memorial

Former Cal golfer surges on the front nine to contend for the lead, but after a double bogey on his final hole he finishes tied for fifth
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Max Homa Makes Dramatic Charge Up the Leaderboard at The Memorial
Max Homa Makes Dramatic Charge Up the Leaderboard at The Memorial

Former Cal golfer Max Homa made a dramatic run at the leaders early in the final round of the Memorial Tournament on Sunday at the Muirfield Village Golf Club course in Dublin, Ohio.

A double-bogey on the final hole provided a disappointing ending, but Homa still wound up in a five-way tie for fifth place, at 3 under par for the day and 6-under for the tournament.

Homa finished seven strokes behind winner Bill Horschel, who finished at 13 under par, which was four strokes ahead of runnerup Aaron Wise.

Homa's tweet suggests he was satisfied with his result:

It's the fifth straight even in which Homa has finished among the top 23, and the second time in that span he wound up in the top five. He won the Well Fargo Championship on May 8..

Homa started the fourth round tied for 19th place, 10 strokes off the lead, but he posted birdies in five of the first seven holes to move into a tie for second place at 8-under for the tournament.

Homa's impressive front-nine run ended with a double bogey on the 10th hole, but he got back to 4-under for the round with a birdie on No. 11.

He then recorded another birdie on the 14th hole, and at that point he was tied for third place, one stroke behind Joaquin Niemann, who finished at 9-under after a 3-under-par round of 70 on Sunday. Homa was four strokes behind leader Bill Horschel, who had completed only nine holes at that point and was at 1-over for the day but 12-under for the tournament.

However, Homa ruined his round with a double-bogey 6 on the final hole, leaving him with a round of 3-under-par 69 and a four-day total of 6-under-par 282.

When he finished his final round at about 4 p.m. Eastern time (1 p.m. Pacific time), Homa was tied for fifth place, one stroke behind Denny McCarthy, three strokes behind Wise and Joaquin Niemann, and seven strokes behind leader Horschel, who had completed just 10 holes at the time.

No other golfers got ahead of Homa on the leaderboard for the rest of the day, so ended up tied for fifth, just a stroke behind Patrick Cantlay and Neimann, who tied for third.

Homa began the week ranked 28th in the world golf rankings, which was a career high, and he may  in Ohio.move up a few notches after his result.

He took home $411,600 for finished tied for fifth this week, which will raise his PGA Tour earnings for the 2021-22 season to nearly $5.3 million. He was ranked eighth on the money list heading into this weekend.

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Cover Photo of Max Homa by Aaron Doster, USA TODAY Sports.

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JAKE CURTIS

Jake Curtis worked in the San Francisco Chronicle sports department for 27 years, covering virtually every sport, including numerous Final Fours, several college football national championship games, an NBA Finals, world championship boxing matches and a World Cup. He was a Cal beat writer for many of those years, and won awards for his feature stories.

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